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UK paperback of 'The Letters of Noël Coward' is due out in mid-September.

Barry Day is the editor of this new book of letters, and, as advisor to the Coward Estate, is the only one to have been given complete access to the correspondence of the Master. With letters to and from Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Daphne du Maurier, Ian Fleming, Edith Sitwell and David Niven, and many more, the picture that emerges is a series of vivid sketches of Noël Coward's private relationships, and a reexamination of the man himself.

‘A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life.
Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise and helpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority on the Master that there is.’ Stephen Fry

Music - Sheet Music -Recordings
The New Noël Coward Music website is under development in the meantime visit the Noël Coward Society where the authoritative Noël Coward Music Index can be found. It lists every known song, lyric and music by Coward. More...

Media Pack
Our media pack contains all of the basic information you need to support professional productions, programme and sleeve notes and written copy for all aspects of media activity.
It also provides an accessible study kit for 16+ students and those wishing to find out more about The Master. More...

Media Rack

A rack of Web links to media stories and articles featuring Noel Coward. More..

Coward The Poet

The BBC Radio 4 programme on "Coward the Poet" will broadcast on August 31 at 3:00 pm. Web

Ben Brantley on London Stages
The Devil in Love's Deep Blue Sea

The New York Times features the Brantley take on Brief Encounter and other London successes. Web...

Reviews of ACT Theatre's Marvelous Party

In the Media Rack this month are a selection of reviews for this successful production. Media Rack...

Noël Coward Trilogy Released in the US

A CELEBRATION OF AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE
The three hour-long specials in the BBC Arena series produced in the Coward Centenary year have been made available on DVD in the US. This detailed evocation traces Noël Coward's life, career and legacy. Part 1: The Boy Actor follows his meteoric rise to international fame at thirty: including how early influences as a young man shaped his works such as Private Lives and The Vortex. Part 2: Captain Coward focuses on his journeys to the Far East with Earl Amherst, as well as entertaining the troops during the war years and films In Which We Serve and Brief Encounter. Part 3: Sail Away follows Coward's cabaret triumphs in London and Las Vegas after the Second World War and his in Switzerland and Jamaica, right up to his death. His long-term partner, the late Graham Payn shows us around Chalet Coward, and archive film reveals his time in Jamaica, as well as his late successes: a cameo performance in The Kitchen, and the musical Sail Away as recalled by its star Elaine Stritch. Nominated for the:1999 Huw Wheldon Award for the Best Arts Programme or Series BAFTA Award 1999.

Sail Away at Sadler's Wells
Broadway veteran Penny Fuller will star in a rare London staging of Noel Coward's 1961 Broadway musical Sail Away, which is being revived at the Lilian Baylis Theatre at Sadler's Wells as part of the 18th season of Ian Marshall Fisher's Lost Musicals series. Sail Away will be presented for seven performances only, Sunday afternoons at 4 PM between June 15 and July 13, with additional evening performances at 7:30 PM July 6 and 13. More... Review...

Houston Grand Opera Announce 'Brief Encounter'

An Opera in Two Acts Music by André Previn
Libretto by John Caird

Houston Grand Opera presents the world premiere of André Previn’s Brief Encounter, based on David Lean’s classic film adaptation of a play by Noël Coward. An honest and compassionate look at emotional infidelity, Brief Encounter stars Elizabeth Futral and Nathan Gunn as Laura and Alec, the couple torn between love and honour, and Kim Josephson as Laura’s bewildered husband; Patrick Summers conducts. Based upon the play Still Life and the screenplay to the 1945 film Brief Encounter, both by Noël Coward. More...

Kneehigh Theatre's Brief Encounter West End HIT!
David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers, the producers of 'Brief Encounter', created by Emma Rice and her Kneehigh Theatre Companyhave a hit on their hands with this theatre version of Coward's enduring story about a middle-class couple, both married to others, who meet at a railway refreshment room. The Kneehigh version is based on the Coward screenplay and the play 'Still Life' and not, as may be thought, the film by David Lean. It is running at a new venue - The Cinema on The Haymarket from February 2. More... Kneehigh Theatre website... 'Listen again' for BBC interview on 'Today'... More reviews? See Media Rack. For Review Quotes

Vortex Success at the Apollo Theatre

Felicity Kendall and Dan Stephens lead an all-star cast in a revival of Coward's first succesful West End play - directed by Sir Peter Hall BBC Review... The production is booking until June 7, 2008. Reviews from the Opening night at the Apollo

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