About the project

March 12 – August 18, 2012

The exhibition Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward, created by the Performing Arts Museum in collaboration with the Museum of Performance and Design and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, focused on Coward’s 4-decade transatlantic career.  He gained fame in London and New York for his dramas, such as The Vortex (1924), and social comedies, among them Design for Living (1932) and Private Lives (1930). Coward also starred in a series of revues, often with Gertrude Lawrence, includingThis Year of Grace (1928), Words and Music(1932), and the multi-part Tonight at 8:30(1936).  His films range from the operetta Cavalcade (1933) to the patriotic world War II dramas In Which We Serve (1942). The exhibition featured manuscripts, paintings, set and costumes designs, costumes, and personal memorabilia.

Graphic and Exhibition Designer