42. The Cup | Present Laughter, with Kevin Kline

Welcome back to the 42nd episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. The theatres may be closed, but art finds a way to survive! For the time being on this podcast we are rereleasing our past reviews, interviews, roundtables, and duet reviews in remastered audio only versions so you can take your CoH content on the go! For our 42nd episode we continue to branch out our review series beyond the Stratford Festival and onto other productions. In this episode we discussed the 2017 Broadway production of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, and starring Kline in the lead role of Garry Essendine, with How I Met Your Mother’s Cobie Smulders as Joanna Lyppiatt. Cup of Hemlock Theatre is a Toronto-based performing arts collective dedicated to staging works that examine the moral quandaries of the human experience. With an inquisitive compass, we aim to provide audiences the space to retrace their personal stories and navigate their individual ideologies. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: cohtheatre Follow our panelists: Mackenzie Horner (Before the Downbeat: A Musical Podcast) – Instagram/Facebook: BeforetheDownbeat Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYbBeN Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAbjAu Meagan Gove – Instagram: @magovelit    Talia Rivers – Personal Instagram @talia.rivers // Art Instagram:  @riversofpaint  // Her Cat’s Instagram: @anya.grandduchess    Ryan Borochovitz – [Just send all that love to CoH instead; he won’t mind!]