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Blithe Spirit is a 1941 play by Noel Coward that had previously been adapted into a movie in 1945 starring Rex Harrison.

Madeleine Mantock, making her West End debut as Elvira, moved like a gorgeous sylph and occupied her role wonderfully.

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The playwrights last work, hospital drama Allelujah!, has been adapted by Heidi Thomas, creator of the BBCs award-winning Call The Midwife.

GENTRY: And now Great Arts at Eastern, from the Portales campus of Eastern New Mexico University. I'm Jeff Gentry, Dean of the College of Fine Arts here on

A SUMMER of outdoor theatre at the Old Town Bowl ends with Romeo and Juliet later this month.

The Best And Worst Of The Local Arts Scene In 1997. By Margaret Regan ONE OF THE best moments in the whole art year took place in its earliest weeks. Liz Lermans Dance Exchange had come to town in January, and worked intensively with local groups to incorporate them into a professional performance at Centennial Hall. After weeks of rehearsals, old Mexican-American women from El Rio Neighborhood Center, Jewish mothers and children from the Hebrew Academy, gay activists and even Ken Foster, hea...

IT was a night to remember at Town Gardens as a summer of live theatre kicked off at the Bowl. Performances by a variety of professional companies will take place at the iconic centrepiece of the park until August 20. A rousing performance of Blithe Spirit raised the curtain on Theatre at the Bowl last weekend, with 150 people enjoying the show. The programme of events is being organised by South Swindon Parish Council and coincides with the Bowls 85th anniversary. The parish councils...

Scream bows the Halloween films in 4K, plus our BIG Ultra HD catalog update for the rest of 2021 & remembering Richard Donner July 6, 2021 - 7:14 pm   |   by Bill Hunt All right, it’s been a busy last several days here at The Bits. For one thing, just personally, I had my mother visiting from North Dakota all last week for the first time in over two years given the pandemic. And that was great, but of course it set me back on 4K review work (which I intend to catch ...

Theatre Royal Bath Productions, Lee Dean and Jonathan Church Theatre Productions are delighted to announce the West End return of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit.