Perhaps it’s self-evident, but the ability to communicate with the dead would appear to be, in a word, “challenging.” Having never personally attended a séance, the ingredients necessary to summon a ...

Dear Readers, I do love a good farce. That rollicking romp with oodles of physical comedy and improbable situations. Combine that with a good comedy of manners and it’s gold. What that spells is Noël ...

The comedy, which will run through April 26, is about a novelist being haunted by the ghost of his first wife.

But once a conversation with his wife, Ruth, debating the relative attractiveness of his deceased first wife, Elvira, cracks like a shot from Chekhov’s gun, trouble is as sure to come as the spirits ...

To begin with, I honestly have no idea what to make of the paradoxical version of Noel Coward’s classic, comedy of British manners, “Blithe Spirit” that I encountered on stage during its opening night ...

A departed wife returns to haunt a neurotic British writer in Noël Coward’s classic comedy “Blithe Spirit.” The uproarious show runs at Ross Valley Players through Dec. 15. Coward is enjoying quite a ...

Noel Coward is one of the great observers of the world’s many subtleties, an enchanter with helpings of sly, sardonic wit. Take for example what his character Madame Arcati says in the splendiferous ...

The cast of Blithe Spirit, by Gisborne's Evolution Theatre Company, are (from left) Jill White, Quentin Harvey, Elizabeth Raines, Russell McLeod, Phillippa Sherry and Rachel Crawford. The play is ...