Theatre Rhinoceros Presents Noel Coward's PRESENT LAUGHTER

Part 2 of Theatre Rhino's Noël Coward Celebration will have its Theatre Rhinoceros premiere for a limited engagement - 25 performances only!

The show plays May 21 - June 18, 2016 / Wed. - Thur. - 8:00 pm / Fri. - Sat. - 8:00 pm / Sat. Matinees - 3:00 pm.

2 Tues. shows: Tues. June 7, June 14, 2016 - 7:00

Previews (5): Sat., May 21 (3:00 pm), Sat., May 21 (8:00 pm), Sun., May 22 (3:00 pm), Wed., May 25, Thurs. May 26 (8:00 pm). (No Press at Previews Please)

Opening Night - Fri., May 27, 2016 - 8:00 pm (Free Martini Celebration

before the show and during Intermission, Champagne

Reception to follow)

Shows are at Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson St., (at Battery St.) SF, CA 94111
- Embarcadero BART

Tickets are $15 - $35 and are available at http://www.therhino.org/buy.htm or
1-800- 838-3006. (All Previews are pay-what-you-wish at the door.)

Individual performance dates are:

May 21, 2016 - Sat. 3:00 pm [Preview)

May 21 - Sat. 8:00 pm [Preview)

May 22 - Sun. 3:00 pm [Preview)

May 25 - Wed. - 8:00 pm [Preview)

May 26 - Thurs. - 8:00 pm [Preview)

May 27 - Fri. - 8:00 pm (Opening night - Free Martini Celebration

before the show and during Intermission, Champagne

Reception to follow Reception to follow)

May 28 - Sat. - matinee 3:00 pm

May 28 - Sat. - 8:00 pm

June 1, 2, 3, 4 - Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat - 8:00 pm

June 4 - Sat. matinee 3:00 pm

June 7 - Tues. 7:00 pm

June 8, 9, 10, 11 - Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat - 8:00 pm

June 11 - Sat. - matinee 3:00 pm

June 14 - Tues. 7:00 pm

June 15, 16, 17, 18 - Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat - 8:00 pm

June 18 - Sat. - matinee 3:00 pm

Noël Coward's Present Laughter - features Bay Area actors: Carlos Barrera (Henry),
Tina D'Elia (Liz), Adrienne Dolan (Daphne), Ryan Engstrom (Fred), Amanda Farbstein (Joanna), John Fisher (Garry & show director), Adrienne Krug (Erikson/Saltburn), Marvin Peterle Rocha (Rolland), Adam Simpson (Morris), Kathryn Wood (Monica).

Tech Credits:

Gilbert Johnson (Set design); Sean Keehan (Lighting design); David Draper (Costume design); Treacy Corrigan (Dialect coach), David Wilson (Graphics/Photography).

Noël Coward's Present Laughter is directed by the Glickman and Critics' Circle Award-winning John Fisher.

Noël Coward's Present Laughter is one of Coward's most personal and wittiest comedies.

This semi-autobiographical comedy follows a self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis who freely indulges his considerable appetite for wine, women and sleeping late.

At the center of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line in harmless, infatuated lovers is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanors is discovered. And all hell breaks loose. Noël Coward's Present Laughter premiered in 1942 during WW2 just as such privileged lives were threatened with fundamental social change.