Called “the funniest farce ever written,” Noises Off by Michael Frayn presents a manic menagerie of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing’s On. Doors slamming, on and offstage intrigue, ...

As I stood outside the Hanna Theatre, after seeing a matinee performance of NOISES OFF, the women to one-side were overheard saying, “That was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.” Her companion looked ...

A director and a troupe of mediocre actors blunder from a bad dress rehearsal to a disastrous performance in this play. Yet no flubbed lines, missed cues, slamming into doors, falling trousers or ...

There may be plays in the theater canon that are longer, more complex and more dramatically draining, but there’s probably no stage comedy that demands more from its ensemble cast than “Noises Off.” ...

L-R: Ora Jones, Audrey Francis and James Vincent Meredith in Noises Off at Geffen Playhouse. Directed by Anna D. Shapiro. Photo by Jeff Lorch. ‘Noises Off’ a roaring comedy at The Geffen Playhouse ...

What could be funnier than a comedy about putting on a comedy? Audiences and critics have been praising Michael Frayn’s hilarious British farce, “Noises Off,” based on that premise, since it was first ...

The ensemble of Noises Off at Steppenwolf Theatre Company Credit: Michael Brosilow Is it odd to see Michael Frayn’s 1982 theatrical farce, Noises Off, onstage at Steppenwolf? Yes. Could Anna D.

Belinda Blair (Michelle Skinner), Dotty Otley (Kimberly Mohne Hill), Lloyd Dallas (Kyle Dayrit), and Selsdon Mowbray (David Boyll) struggle to keep it together backstage during a performance of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Slapstick comedy often gets a bad rap as mindless popcorn entertainment rather than serious art. Great Lakes Theater’s production of “Noises Off,” now at the Hanna Theatre through ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - The first River Campus production of the season opens at Bedell Performance Hall September 26. Southeast Missouri State theater students are preparing to put on Michael ...

In “Noises Off,” each of the three acts contains a performance of the first act of a play within the play, “Nothing On.” Act One is set at the technical rehearsal, revealing the incompetence of the ...