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A new production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives will be presented on Broadway in the 2026-2027 season, producers announced today.

Information about the director, casting, dates and theater will be announced at a later date.

The production is being produced by Jeffrey Richards, Playful Productions, Rebecca Gold and M/B/P Productions.

Alan Brodie, chair of the Noël Coward Foundation said, “We are thrilled that this sparkling new production of this iconic comedy will be coming back to Broadway in 2026/27. The Coward Estate will work with closely with the producers and creative team and open their extensive archive to them as well as providing support from its social and marketing team. All the royalties received by the Coward Estate on this production will go to the charitable Foundation set up by Coward’s partner Graham Payn and will be used to support...

Judi Dench has reflected on some of her naughtiest moments – including the time she accidentally yelled “w***er” at a stranger.

The actor, while in conversation with broadcaster Gyles Brandreth at London’s Gielgud Theatre on Sunday night (27 November), said she thought it would be funny to shout at someone she had mistakenly identified as her friend, the impressionist Alistair McGowan, only to realise afterwards that it wasn’t him.

“I was driving along and saw who I thought was Alistair McGowan and I shouted ‘w***er’… and it was a total stranger,” she said.

The 87-year-old star added that the sight condition she suffers from – macular degeneration – has got her into trouble numerous times over the years.

In another awkward mishap, Dench said she was once on stage and thought she saw theatre director Howard Davies in the audience.

“So I got a piece of paper and folded it up and wrote on it,...

Isabelle Huppert as Marie Stuart in Robert Wilson's production of Mary Said What She Said to be presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August Photo: Théâtre de la Ville Paris

Isabelle Huppert admits she has an obsession with Mary Stuart, the Queen of Scotland and France who lost her crown because of her passions.

She has already played her on stage in London at the National Theatre in a 1996 production (directed by Howard Davies) of Schiller’s play, opposite Anna Massey as the Protestant Elizabeth of England.

One review said that Huppert “devoured the stage with the animal vigour of a refined thoroughbred.”

At the Rendezvous with French Cinema in Paris, Huppert, who was there primarily to talk about her role as a woman facing up to death in Ira Sachs’s film Frankie, revealed that she will bring Mary back to Scotland as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August,...

Today, October 11, National Theatre Live will broadcast a live performance ofThe Last of the Haussmans, a new play by Stephen Beresford and directed by Howard Davies. The broadcasts will be shown at cinemas throughout North America with many encore dates available. National Theatre Lives fourth season continues with The Last of the Haussmans, directed by Howard Davies. Steven Beresfords acclaimed new play is a funny, touching and sometimes savage portrait of a family thats losing its grip. The cast includes includes Julie Walters, Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory. The darkly comic drama is completely sold out at the National Theatre.

On Thursday, October 11, National Theatre Live will broadcast a live performance ofThe Last of the Haussmans, a new play by Stephen Beresford and directed by Howard Davies. The broadcasts will be shown at cinemas throughout North America with many encore dates available. National Theatre Lives fourth season continues with The Last of the Haussmans, directed by Howard Davies. Steven Beresfords acclaimed new play is a funny, touching and sometimes savage portrait of a family thats losing its grip. The cast includes includes Julie Walters, Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory. The darkly comic drama is completely sold out at the National Theatre.