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Repertory Philippines (Rep) and the City of Makati present Ray Cooney's 1983 farce RUN FOR YOUR WIFE at OnStage (Greenbelt 1, Makati City) now through Sunday, May 3. It's Rep's third time (the first one was in 1986; the second, 2001) to stage the show, directed by Miguel Faustmann.
Lefra Productions is already well known for the laugh-out-loud farces that they present each year. This year's brand new farce is MY BOETIE SE BOETIE SE BOETIE SE BABA, by Ray Cooney and his son, Michael, is one of London's West End's most successful farces.
If you think your life is complicated, put yourself in John Smith's shoes for a moment. John, the taxi driver from MY VROU SE MAN SE VROU has two wives - and now, two families! In MY BOETIE SE SUSSIE SE OU, it is 18 years later and John still keeps his two families in different parts of London.
Gallery Players presents Ray Cooney's Run For Your Wife - the fourth production in Gallery's 48th season - in what promises to be an intimate, exhilarating romp. Perfect for the post-holiday season.
Oyster Mill Playhouse closed its season with a hysterical British bedroom farce, one of Oyster Mill's strongest suitsRay Cooney is England's king of the bedroom farce, best known for his RUN FOR YOUR WIFE and for IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY. But his late 60's-early 70's set MOVE OVER MRS. MARKHAM may be funnier than either of those. It's definitely the sort of play that should be on the Oyster Mill Playhouse stage where, fortunately, it has been now. Oyster Mill has the configuration for farce, as well as intimate seating allowing audiences to miss no hilarious move, much less the necessary entrances and exits for the best farces.
The Adelaide Repertory Theatre Society's final offering for the year was written by master of the farce , Ray Cooney, and his son, Michael,
Oyster Mill Playhouse presents the comedy, Move Over, Mrs. Markham. It is written by Ray Cooney and John Chapman and produced with special arrangement by Samuel French, Inc.
RSG and Lefra Productions will stage their second Oppiwater Arts Festival on the MSC Opera in March 2015. The first Oppiwater Arts Festival was sold out within six days and is a special and unique festival in that all of the productions are staged in venues aboard the the luxury MSC Opera: truly an arts festival on the water!
From the antics of silent film stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, to the more modern chicanery of the Marx Brothers or the physical comedy of the Three Stooges, people love to laugh out loud at the goings on of individuals trying to get away with something, even when they know they are doomed to get caught. Such is the tale told in Ray Cooney's RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, brilliantly directed at a breakneck pace by Gary Robbins at the Torrance Theatre Company through October 12.
Lefra Productions is bringing six of its top productions of this year to the Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival. In a first for the festival, Lefra Productions will have the full use of the Totius Hall on the PUK campus.
COMEDY chaos comes to Limelight Theatre this October in a show for lovers of old-fashioned farce. Written by veteran playwright Ray Cooney and his son Michael, Tom, Dick and Harry is the story of Tom Kerwood and his wife trying to adopt a baby - but their attempts to impress a busybody social worker are jeopardised by Tom's useless brothers Dick and Harry.
British stage, film and TV actor Donald Sinden has passed away at the age of 90 after suffering from prostate cancer
Broadway Palm's 2014-2015 Season includes eight main stage productions, five productions in The Off Broadway Palm, four Children's Theatre productions and six concerts.
The Gallery Players is proud to announce their 48th Season: new plays and new musicals, as well as Gallery's signature reimagining of Broadway classics.
For the first time in twenty-seven years, the London bedroom farce, MOVE OVER, MRS. MARKHAM returns to the historic Barn Theatre, now celebrating its 68th season. MARKHAM opens tonight, July 22 for a two week engagement through Sunday, August 3.
Broadway Palm's 2014-2015 Season includes eight main stage productions, five productions in The Off Broadway Palm, four Children's Theatre productions and six concerts.
For the first time in twenty-seven years, the London bedroom farce, MOVE OVER, MRS. MARKHAM returns to the historic Barn Theatre, now celebrating its 68th season. MARKHAM opens Tuesday, July 22 for a two week engagement through Sunday, August 3.
Hudson Village Theatre's third offering in a four-play summer season, running from today, July 9 to 27, 2014, is the 'drawing room comedy', Wife Begins at Forty, written by Earl Barret, Ray Cooney and Arne Sultan and directed by Glen Bowser.
Hudson Village Theatre's third offering in a four-play summer season, running from July 9 to 27, 2014, is the 'drawing room comedy', Wife Begins at Forty, written by Earl Barret, Ray Cooney and Arne Sultan and directed by Glen Bowser.
The Hudson Village Theatre (HVT) has announced its twenty-second season of summer plays, featuring a reprise visit from Canada's beloved Norm Foster, the King of Rock n' Roll, a 'living room' comedy and a rollicking mystery and from today, June 11th to August 24th, 2014.
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