NOEL COWARD FANS (and aren’t we all?) will want to make a beeline to Pasadena this month for a new production of A Song at Twilight at the Pasadena Playhouse, starring Bruce Davison and Sharon Lawrence and directed by Art Manke.
A Song at Twilight was first produced in 1966 and is Cowards’s final play, and deals with many issues of contemplation and reflection with which the author was struggling at the time. We meet author Hugo Latymer (Davison), who has reached the autumn of his days with everything a man could wish for: wealth, success, fantastic friends, and a life filled with laughter, luxury and travel. But a profound fear of intimacy and public scandal have kept him from embracing the one true love in his life, and now he wonders if he would trade the success for a chance to do it all again.
Perhaps the best estimation of the play’s issues and power comes from The New York Times, which said of A Song at Twilight: “In his final theater work Sir Noël Coward’s talent to amuse was darkened and deepened by his capacity to reflect.”
Bruce Davison is best known to movie audiences for his Oscar-nominated, and Golden Globe-winning turn in the groundbreaking AIDS drama Longtime Companion, and for his leading role in the Bigfoot TV series Harry and the Hendersons. An accomplished and gifted stage actor, he also originated the role of John Merrick in The Elephant Man on Broadway.
Sharon Lawrence is a veteran of stage and the small screen, perhaps best known for her role as Andy Sipowicz’s ill-fated wife Sylvia in the ABC-TV show, NYPD Blue.
A Song at Twilight plays at the Playhouse Mainstage from March 18th to April 13th. For more information and tickets, visit: www.pasadenaplayhouse.org.
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