A little Noel

Make a Noel Coward exhibition, and you'd expect a dressing gown or two. But you will possibly not anticipate works of art through the author-composer-director-actor themself. Such art is probably the memorabilia displayed included in Stars: The field of Noel Coward, an exhibit in the NY Public Library for that Carrying out Arts and also the Noel Coward Foundation. You will find also opening-evening gifts, an Oscar along with a Tony in addition to letters, manuscripts and hang and costume sketches by designers Coward labored with on Broadway and beyond. Opening March 12, the exhibition -- a part of a citywide Coward festival which includes tests in the Film Society of Lincoln subsequently Center and AMPAS -- covers all periods from the creative's existence. Which includes his old age in Jamaica, which inspired his colorful, primitivistic painting. "He known as the design and style 'Touch and Gauguin,' " stated curator Kaira Rosenstein. The Coward exhibition continues to be observed in four prior incarnations, but based on Rosenstein, this Gotham version includes a chest of never-before-seen stuff. Which includes dressing gowns -- including one signature robe he used in "Present Laughter." "It is a knockout," Rosenstein stated. Exhibition runs March 12-August. 18 in the Lincoln subsequently Center homebase from the NYPL for that Carrying out Arts. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com