Noel Coward's This Was A Man: Classic Script Revival

Marking its first New York presentation since its original 1926 premiere, Noël Coward's This Was a Man returns to the stage — followed by a post-show discussion.

One of Coward's rarely produced early dramas, the play follows Edward Churt, a successful painter whose carefully composed world begins to fracture as he confronts his wife Carol's infidelity. While Edward attempts to maintain elegant detachment, his closest friend becomes determined to force a reckoning that threatens to upend them all.

Sharp, psychologically probing, and surprisingly modern, This Was a Man asks enduring questions about masculinity, emotional repression, and the limits of civility — what happens when good manners become a mask for pain, and what it ultimately means to be a man.