Noises Off by Michael Frayn will complete the lineup of The Old Globe's 2025 season. Comedic visionary, Gordon Greenberg (Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors, The Heart of Rock and Roll) is set to direct.

Michael Frayn’s NOISES OFF is a genuinely funny homage to classic British farce, replete with more doors and sardines than seems humanly possible. Former Steppenwolf Artistic Director Anna D. Shapiro ...

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 ...

A few doors slamming, a smattering of coincidences, humans acting like cartoons - the skeptical audience member might well write off farce as a musty old genre, predictable in its contrivances, low in ...

As modern farces go, Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” is not only one of the funniest but may also be the most elegantly conceived. The play, in revival at the Geffen Playhouse in a co-production with ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When you’re in the ensemble cast of the definitive British farce “Noises Off,” rehearsing isn’t just about memorizing your lines. Take it from Jefferson Mays ...

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.