Slamming doors and plates of sardines were all I could recall from the last time I saw Noises Off, and that’s a good summary of the third Broadway production of Michael Frayn’s slapstick backstage farce about an inept cast putting on a terrible play….

I can’t remember ever hearing laughter at a higher sustained volume for any show on Broadway. It must be almost heartwarming to share in the hilarity in a closed space; such a reaction en masse is just a slightly alienating experience for those of us who can’t help viewing this three-decade-old farce as little more than The Three Stooges with a British accent.

Full review at DC Theatre Scene.

Click on any photograph by Joan Marcus below to see it enlarged.

Noises Off: Jeremy Shamos, Kate Jennings-Grant, David Furr, Andrea Martin, Campbell- Scott

Andrea Martin

Megan Hilty, David Furr, Jeremy Shamos

Andrea Martin, Campbell Scott, Megan Hilty, Jeremy Shamos, David Furr and Kate Jennings Grant

Tracee Chimo, Andrea Martin, Campbell Scott, Megan Hilty and Jeremy Shamos i

Rob McClure and Campbell Scott

Megan Hilty, Daniel Davis, Kate Jennings Grant, Jeremy Shamos, David Furr and Andrea Martin

Daniel Davis, Tracee Chimo, Jeremy Shamos (in background) and Kate Jennings Grant i

Daniel Davis, Kate Jennings Grant, Jeremy Shamos, Rob McClure and Megan Hilty

Daniel Davis, Kate Jennings Grant, Andrea Martin, Campbell Scott and Megan Hilty

Tracee Chimo and Rob McClure

David Furr, Andrea Martin and Jeremy Shamos

Cast of Noises Off Top row: Andrea Martin, Campbell Scott, Tracee Chimo Middle row Daniel Davis, David Furr, Kate Jennings Grant Bottom row Meg Hilty, Rob McClure, Jeremy Shamos