Cobie Smulders, Kate Burton, Kristine Nielsen Join Present Laughter

Three leading ladies have joined the cast of the forthcoming Broadway revival of Noël Coward’s semi-autobiographical comedy Present Laughter, starring two-time Tony winner Kevin Kline as an arrogant matinee idol reconciling a series of relationship and personal crises.

For one, it’s a Broadway debut — Cobie Smulders, best known to audiences for How I Met Your Mother and The Avengers, will play Joanna, the wife of the best friend of Kline’s Garry Essendine. She previously appeared on stage in an off-Broadway production of Nora and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss and What I Wore... READ MORE

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