Running time: 95 minutes. Rated PG-13 (suggestive references and some drug material). In select theaters and on demand. Fifteen minutes into the awful new movie “Blithe Spirit,” something changes: The ...

The sporting efforts of a cast including Dan Stevens and Judi Dench can't save Edward Hall's witless farce, which turns out far creakier than David Lean's 1945 original. Sputtering onto screens 75 ...

Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, and Leslie Mann are made for screwball silliness — perhaps someone will think to cast them in such a comedy, because Edward Hall's limp remake hardly befits their talents.

Noël Coward’s 1941 play “Blithe Spirit” is classic material: a screwball comedy about a mystery novelist with writer’s block who is haunted by his late first wife after she is inadvertently summoned ...

Looking for a few laughs as this endless pandemic drags on? The latest take on Noel Coward’s sophisticated and supremely silly Blithe Spirit provides them. It also presents Dame Judi Dench with a role ...

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 ...

This is perhaps an odd time for Nöel Coward's comedy about death and supernatural apparitions to land in the West End - Richard Eyre's revival transferring from Theatre Royal Bath. On the other hand, ...

Richard Eyre's production of Noël Coward's 1941 Blithe Spirit was just settling into its West End home last year when lockdown struck. Now revived with most of its original cast, it settles into the ...

Ex-wives often have the reputation of being difficult, but I doubt many ex-husbands deal with mischievous types who come back from the dead. Such is the case with Plotline Theatre’s latest offering ...