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'Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward' - to Extend NYC Stay for Two Months

March 12, 2012 to August 18, 2012

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has extended its 2012 exhibition "Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward" an additional two months as New York City prepares for a city-wide festival of the late playwright, composer and performer.

The exhibition, featuring photographs, programs, scripts, costumes, personal effects, memorabilia, as well as audio and video, will launch March 12, 2012, and continue through Aug. 18, 2012. It is presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Noël Coward Foundation and in collaboration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Museum of Performance & Design, San Francisco.
New Noël Coward in New York website • Exhibition Page • Playbill

Star Quality

LIZA Goddard and Daniel Casey star in Noël Coward’s Star Quality, at Malvern Theatres later this month. Set in 1951, Star Quality goes behind the scenes of a new West End production to reveal a wickedly observant satire of talent and treachery and a gallery of unforgettable characters. Web

THE COMPLETE VERSE OF NOËL COWARD

The Complete Verse of Noel Coward brings together the three volumes of verse produced during his lifetime together with previously unpublished material for the very first time. For the legions of fans of The Master, this definitive collection of Coward's verse writings will prove irresistible. 'Throughout most of the years of my life, since approximately 1908, I have derived a considerable amount of private pleasure from writing verse ...It is an inherent instinct in the English character.' Edited by Barry Day.

Daily Mail • The Guardian • Methuen Drama

The Noël Coward Music Index

The Noël Coward Music Index has been reborn on noelcowardmusic.com and is available for browsing and searching for details and background information on Coward's music, songs and lyrics.

For information on amateur company productions of Coward's works see: The Noël Coward Society

Hay Fever

Lindsay Duncan and Jeremy Northam on Hay Fever

Running at the Noël Coward Theatre from 10 February - 2 June 2012, Hay Fever has designs by Bunny Christie, lighting by Mark Henderson and sound by Mike Walker. Press preview performances are Thursday 23 February at 7pm, Friday 24 February and Saturday 25 February at 2.30pm and 7.30pm, with reviews embargoed until Monday 27 February 2012. Hay Fever is produced in the West End by Richard Willis, Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions. Further casting will be announced shortly. Read more

David Lean Directs Noël Coward

This Blu-Ray Box Set has just been released and contains 4 discs of the following films: Brief Encounter, In Which We Serve, This Happy Breed and Blithe Spirit. Web

The Treasures of Noël Coward - Barry Day OBE

Playwright, director, actor, songwriter, singer: few artists have influenced popular culture more than the legendary Noël Coward. He chronicled high society with sparkling wit, played a crucial role in Britain's propaganda efforts during World War II, and made a splash in Hollywood. This lavishly illustrated volume, with its elegant slipcase, celebrates everything Coward. It includes 20 removable pieces of facsimile memorabilia--letters, sheet music, manuscript drafts, drawings, and programs--as well as a DVD featuring previously unseen, personal footage.

Barry Day O.B.E. is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Trustee of the Noël Coward Foundation. The world's foremost expert on Noël Coward, he wrote Coward On Film: The Cinema of Noël Coward, Noël Coward: The Complete Illustrated Lyrics, The Noël Coward Reader, The Letters of Noël Coward, and My Life With Noël Coward (with Graham Payne). He was awarded the O.B.E. for “services to British culture in the USA” and lives in New York City and Palm Beach.  Sterling Publishing Publisher: Andre Deutsch • Published: March 2012
ISBN: 0-233-00349-5 • ISBN13: 9780233003498
$50.00 US Hardcover with Slipcase •140 color & b/w photos  US Only