# Noël Coward Theatre

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- [Dracula](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/dracula): Dracula reawakens. Three-time Oscar® nominee and Tony®, Emmy® and Grammy® winner Cynthia Erivo is Dracula. Acclaimed star of Wicked, Harriet, Genius: Aretha, and The Colour Purple, Cynthia Erivo transforms into all 23 roles in Tony Award® nominated adaptor and director Kip Williams’ intoxicating, blood-pumping reimagining of the immortal gothic horror. Deep in the desolate wilderness stands a crumbling castle; a mysterious presence lurking within. For centuries, Count Dracula has waited in hiding. Now, this phantom is coming out of the shadows. As the Count sets his sights on a fresh target, a new kind of terror begins – seductive, unstoppable […]
- [The Importance of Being Earnest](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-importance-of-being-earnest): The National Theatre’s ‘exuberant, joyous and celebratory’ (Financial Times) production of The Importance of Being Earnest is now playing at the Noël Coward Theatre, in a co-production with Sonia Friedman Productions. Directed by Max Webster (Donmar’s Macbeth; Life of Pi) this ‘gloriously frivolous’ (Daily Mail) reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s ‘glittering masterpiece’ (Telegraph), is a hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance, that is ‘outrageously camp, flamboyantly queer and ludicrously entertaining’ (Broadway World). With an all-star cast including Olly Alexander in the role of Algernon Moncrieff alongside Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Jack Worthing, Hugh Dennis as Reverend Canon Chasuble, Shobna Gulati as Miss Prism, Kitty Hawthorne as Gwendolen Fairfax, Jessica Whitehurst as Cecily Cardew, Hayley Carmichael as Merriman/Lane, and Stephen Fry in his ‘scene-stealing turn’ (The Stage) as Lady Bracknell. […]
- [The Comedy About Spies](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-comedy-about-spies): ‘ABANDON YOURSELF TO THE MADNESS’– The Times Mischief’s most critically-acclaimed adventure THE COMEDY ABOUT SPIES is ★★★★★ ‘bigger, better and more brilliantly bungling than ever’ (Daily Mail). Don’t miss the West End’s hottest ticket at London’s Noël Coward Theatre. Mischief, the multi award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, bring an uproarious 1960’s spy escapade, bursting with enough confused missions, tangled identities, and miscommunication to ‘leave you crying helpless tears of laughter.’ (Guardian). When a rogue British agent pilfers plans for a top-secret weapon, CIA and KGB spies […]
- [A Streetcar Named Desire](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/a-streetcar-named-desire): Following sold out runs at the Almeida and Phoenix Theatre, Rebecca Frecknall‘s multi-Olivier award winning and ‘heartstopping’ (Telegraph) production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE returns to the West End for three weeks only in February 2025. Patsy Ferran (Critics Circle winner for Best Actress), Paul Mescal (Olivier Award winner for Best Actor) and Anjana Vasan (Olivier Award winner for Best Supporting Actress) all return to London, providing ‘three bewitching performances‘ (Observer) before the show transfers to New York. On a street in New Orleans, in the blistering summer heat, a sister spirals. When Blanche unexpectedly visits her estranged sister Stella, she brings with her a past that will threaten […]
- [The Last Laugh](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-last-laugh): ★★★★ “Comedy heaven! Immaculate…Gags galore!”– Daily Mail Direct from the West End, The Last Laugh is a “brilliant” (The Telegraph) brand new laugh-a-minute play which reimagines the lives of three of Britain’s all-time greatest comedy heroes – Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse. Filled with great gags and touching stories, The Last Laugh is nostalgic and poignant and guaranteed to be London’s best comedy night out. The Last Laugh is written and directed by the award-winning Paul Hendy, and stars “a trio of sublime performances” (WhatsOnStage) by Bob Golding as Morecambe, Simon Cartwright as Monkhouse and Damian Williams as […]
- [Previous Shows](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/previous-shows): Please find below a list of our previous shows at Noël Coward Theatre.
- [Slave Play](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/slave-play): By Jeremy O.Harris “Is London Ready for Slave Play?” At the MacGregor Plantation the Old South is alive and well. The heat in the air, the cotton fields and the power of the whip. Yet nothing is quite as it appears… or maybe it is. The iconic, controversial, ground-breaking and 12-time Tony Nominated play comes to London. Fisayo Akinade, Kit Harington, Aaron Heffernan and Olivia Washington star alongside James Cusati-Moyer, Chalia La Tour, Maite Jauregui, and Irene Sofia Lucio who reprise their roles from the original Broadway Production. Jeremy O.Harris’s extraordinary play about race, identity and sexuality in twenty-first century America directed by Robert O’Hara at the intimate Noël Coward Theatre for a strictly limited and unmissable season.
- [Player Kings](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/player-kings): Ian McKellen – ‘one of the world’s greatest actors’ (Times) – plays Falstaff in a new version of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, adapted by the award-winning writer and director Robert Icke. A divided country, leadership crumbling, corruption in the air. Welcome to England. Hal wasn’t born to be king. Only now, it seems, he will be. His father longs for him to leave behind his friends in the taverns of Eastcheap, most notably the infamous John Falstaff. War is on the horizon. But will Hal ever come good? Joining Ian McKellen as Sir John Falstaff are Toheeb Jimoh (Ted Lasso & Romeo and Juliet) as Hal and Richard Coyle (Ink & Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore) as King Henry […]
- [Dr. Strangelove](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/dr-strangelove): NOW IN ITS FINAL WEEKS! Seven-time BAFTA Award winner Steve Coogan stars in the first ever adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. “One of the greatest films of all timeis one of the hottest tickets of the year.”– The Independent With a world-renowned creative team led by BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award winner Sean Foley, this explosively funny satire of mutually assured destruction will leave a whole new generation of audiences laughing and afraid. Joining Steve Coogan is Giles Terera, John Hopkins, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Penny Ashmore, Ben Deery, Richard Dempsey, Mabli Gwynne, Mark Hadfield, Tony Jayawardena, Tom Kelsey, Daniel Norford, Dharmesh Patel, Adam Sina, […]
- [The Ocean at the End of the Lane](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane): From the imagination of Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of Good Omens, Coraline and The Sandman, the National Theatre’s smash-hit production The Ocean at the End of the Lane returns to the West End this October for seven weeks only. Garnering more than 60 five-star reviews, this spectacular and thrilling theatrical event is a tour de force of magic and storytelling. Adapted by Joel Horwood and directed by Katy Rudd, The Ocean at the End of the Lane takes audiences on an epic journey to a childhood once forgotten. Returning to his childhood home, a man finds himself standing beside the pond of the old Sussex farmhouse where he used to play. He’s transported to his 12th birthday when […]
- [The Motive and The Cue](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-motive-and-the-cue): Following a highly acclaimed, sold-out run at the National Theatre, The Motive and the Cue transfers to the West End for a strictly limited 15-week run, playing at the Noël Coward Theatre from 9 December. Academy Award®, Tony Award® and Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy, The Ferryman) directs this startling production based on the making of Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s Hamlet on Broadway. Celebrated as ‘a love letter to theatre’ (Evening Standard), the fierce and funny new play by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) offers a glimpse into the politics of a rehearsal room and the relationship between art and celebrity. Richard Burton, newly married to […]
- [Patriots](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/patriots): “If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes” 1991. The Fall of the Soviet Union.With the dawning of a new Russia, there are winners and losers, and today’s patriot can fast become tomorrow’s traitor. As a new generation of oligarchs fights to seize control, Patriots follows billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky from the president’s inner circle to public enemy number one. Winner of the 2023 Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play and the 2023 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor for Will Keen as Vladimir Putin, see the ‘dazzling’ (Daily […]
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- [Noël Coward Theatre](https://www.noelcowardtheatre.co.uk/): St Martin’s Lane, London, WC2N 4AU. Call Customer Service on +44 (0)344 482 5151† Phone lines are open:Monday – Saturday 10am – 7.30pm. Box office opening times: From 2 hours and 30 minutes before the start of the show, until 15 minutes after curtain up. On matinee days the box office remains open in between performances Please note: You may not bring any food or drink purchased elsewhere to our theatres. All our theatre bars serve drinks and snacks, but not hot food. Our theatres sell products which may contain allergens. Allergen information is available upon request from all bars or […]


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