Shows & Events at the Noël Coward Theatre

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Noël Coward Theatre

Noël Coward Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4AU

Box office opening times:
Monday to Friday: four:30pm – 7:30pm
Saturday: 11:30am – seven:30pm

Call the Box Function on 0344 482 5151
Phone lines are open Mon - Saturday 10am - 7pm.
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Open up Tuesday - Friday: Midday - 6pm.


Delight note: You may not bring whatever nutrient 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 data is available upon request from all bars or other staff selling refreshments around the venue.

Getting to the Noël Coward Theatre

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By Train or Tube

The nearest railroad train station is Charing Cross.

The nearest tube station is Leicester Square.

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Past Bus

The nearest double-decker stops are serviced past numbers 24, 29, 176.

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By Car

If you are driving, you lot tin take advantage of the Q-Park Theatreland parking scheme with fifty% off auto parking after midday for upwards to 4 hours.

There is also parking bachelor at MasterPark Trafalgar Square and NCP at Upper St Martin'due south Lane.

Accessibility at the Noël Coward Theatre

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Parking

The theatre itself has no parking facilities but there are disabled bays nearby on St Martin's Lane or Charing Cantankerous Route. For more information visit the City of Westminster website.

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Toilets

There is an adapted toilet near the foyer shut to the Regal Circle boxes. There are 2 steps up to a ladies toilet from the foyer. In that location are toilets situated on all levels of the auditorium.

Our access host will happily advise and guide should you require assistance.

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Help Dogs

Assist dogs are allowed in to the auditorium. Alternatively, our staff are happy to canis familiaris sit during your performance.

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Wheelchairs

There is a ramp (gradient 30-twoscore%, approximately seventy.4cm in width and with a handrail on both sides) through the forepart door on St Martin's Lane. Box M (door 68cm broad) has 2 spaces for wheelchair/scooter users who need to stay in their chair (or 1 wheelchair user and a companion). Companions can as well exist seated in the Royal Circle. Box 50 has space for a standard manual wheelchair. Wheelchair transfer seating is available via a pocket-sized number of steps to any aisle seat in Regal Circle. Wheelchairs can exist stored in the cloakroom, scooters in the foyer.

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Hearing

Nosotros provide two different types of hearing enhancement aids at our theatres. Delight check the tabular array tosee which one is most suitable for you.

Type of hearing help:

Which headset to use:

With a "T" setting

Neck loop receiver

Without a "T" setting

Stethoset Headset

Bluetooth*

Stethoset Headset

Cochlear implant*

Stethoset Headset

BAHS implant*

Stethoset Headset

*A hearing enhancement aid may not exist required with a Bluetooth hearing aid orimplants.

When you lot arrive at the theatre, please ask the duty manager in the foyer for assist. We willask you for a creditcard or driving licence equally a deposit to be exchanged for the return of the headset at the end of the operation.

Autism

Nosotros know that advice is key for autistic patrons.

Nosotros want all our patrons to have a good feel while in our theatres, and so we now have a visual tool for parents, guardians, carers and companions to use with those on the autistic spectrum and/or with learning difficulties.

At that place are two versions. A printable version and a video version, both of which can be viewed via the links below.

Nosotros have been researching the benefits of using social stories and would like to offer a social story for a visit to Noël Coward Theatre. We know that autistic people can find social situations difficult and empathise that we are all unique.

Hospitality at the Noël Coward Theatre

There are two VIP rooms bachelor for hire at the Noël Coward Theatre.
If you would like to discuss venue rent then please enquire using the push below:

Facilities at the Noël Coward Theatre

Lost Property

If you lot have whatever enquiries regarding lost property at Noël Coward Theatre please email customer services.

Lost holding will be kept at the theatre for one month.

Facilities

The theatre has iii licensed bars; Noël'south Bar in the Stalls expanse, Lionel's Bar in the Imperial Circle/Stalls level and the Albery bar in the Yard Circle level

For a look at what bang-up value drinks and snacks we offer and an example price list delight available to download/view beneath:

Cloakrooms

For the safety and security of our patrons and employees, our cloakrooms are currently closed.

Withal, we work with Stasher who offer bag storage in many hotels and shops across London (all within close walking altitude to our theatres).

HOW TO Book Baggage STORAGE WITH STASHER

Bookings must exist made online and information technology costs £5.40 for the day using the lawmaking "Starting time".

For location options and to book:

Boosted Security Checks

Working with Global Support Services, nosotros use highly trained detection dogs to provide boosted security spot checks at our theatres.

Noël Coward Theatre History

Production Highlights

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Constant Nymph (1925))

1903 The New Theatre opened with a revival of Rosemary past Louis N Parker and Murray Carson in which the co-directors Sir Charles Wyndham and Mary Moore starred.

1905 Fred Terry and Julia Neilson outset staged The Blood-red Pimpernel here. It proved so pop that it was revived annually for seven years.

1909 Father, mother and daughter, Fred Terry, Julia Neilson and Phyllis Terson (Terry), all appeared in the aforementioned play, Henry of Navarre.

1920 Noël Coward fabricated his W End debut as Bobbie Dermott in his own play I'll Leave It to You.

1924 Sybil Thorndike created the function of Joan in Thousand B Shaw'south play Saint Joan. It was described by the Daily Postal service as 'i of the great performances of our time'.

1926 Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean's play The Abiding Nymph had a groovy success with both Noël Coward and subsequently John Gielgud taking the part of the composer Lewis Dodd.

Read more than near the theatre and its history...

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Agenda Girls (2009)

1933 John Gielgud appeared at the theatre in the play that established him as a star, Richard of Bordeaux which ran for 472 performances. He connected to appear there for more than three years in a number of plays including Queen of Scots, Hamlet, Noah, Romeo and Juliet and The Seagull.

1941 The theatre became home to the Former Vic and Sadler'south Wells companies when their ain theatres were flop damaged. The Vic-Wells ballet gave their first W End performance of a triple beak starring Margot Fonteyn and Frederick Ashton on xiv January. The numerous star-studded Onetime Vic productions included Ralph Richardson as Peer Gynt and Laurence Olivier equally Richard III.

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Equus (1976)

1949 Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh starred together in The School for Scandal, Male monarch Richard Iii and Antigone. The one-time had costumes by Cecil Beaton and music by Thomas Beecham.

1950 London premiere of T S Eliot's comedy of manners The Cocktail Party based on Alcestis by Euripedes, starring Rex Harrison every bit The Unidentified Guest and Margaret Leighton as Celia.

1952 Katharine Hepburn made her Westward End debut as Epifania in The Millionairess. Shaw had himself described her equally 'the built-in decider, dominator, organiser, tactician, mesmeriser'.

1960 Oliver! opened on 30 June with an advance of just £145. The opening cast included Ron Moody as Fagin, Georgia Chocolate-brown equally Nancy and Barry Humphries as Mr Sowerberry. The show ran until September 1967, by which fourth dimension information technology had notched up 2,618 performances.

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Hay Fever (1992)

1973 The theatre changed its name from the New to the Albery to commemorate Mary Moore'south son, Bronson Albery, who presided over its fortunes for many years and was later succeeded by his son Donald, and grandson Ian. The Albery family fabricated a unique contribution to the history of the theatre as both managers and producers between 1903 and 1987.

1973 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice had commenced life as a xx-infinitesimal 'pop cantata'. By the time it reached the Albery it had doubled in length and was performed with another piece, later phased out, entitled Jacob's Journey.

1977 Cameron Mackintosh presented a revival of the original production of Oliver! using the famous Sean Kenny sets. It starred Roy Hudd as Fagin and ran for three years.

1981 The romantic drama Children of a Bottom God won Oliviers for Trevor Eve and Elizabeth Quinn also every bit the Best New Play Award.

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Hamlet (1933)

1994 A Calendar month in the Land with John Hurt and Helen Mirren was the Albery'due south most successful play always. Mirren's personal success equally Natalya Petrovna led to her Broadway debut the post-obit twelvemonth.

1995 Members of the cast and audience did the conga around the theatre in Five Guys Named Moe which was written by Clarke Peters as a tribute to jazz-blues musician Louis Jordan.

2001 Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman took London by tempest with their modern, highly charged performances equally Amanda and Elyot in Coward'southward Private Lives.

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A Midsummer Nighttime's Dream (2013)

2005 On 19 September the long lease on the theatre reverted from the Administrator Theatre Group to Delfont Mackintosh Theatres.

2006 The theatre inverse its name to the Noël Coward Theatre when Artery Q opened on one June. This Tony Award-winning musical ran for virtually three years before transferring to the Gielgud Theatre.

2011 The Moscow-based theatre company Sovremennik gave the kickoff London season by a major Russian company for over 20 years.

2012 For the offset time in their 30-yr history, LIFT presented a evidence in a conventional Westward End venue. The eight-hour-long Elevator Repair Service production of Gatz was described by Ben Brantley as 'The most remarkable achievement in theatre not only of this twelvemonth simply of this decade'.

2015 Nicole Kidman returned to the West Stop stage to announced in Photograph 51 which cleverly turned the discovery of Deoxyribonucleic acid into compelling theatre.

2016 Cameron Mackintosh's new production of Half a Sixpence transferred from Chichester Festival Theatre and made a star of Charlie Stemp in the role of Arthur Kipps.

2018 Matthew Lopez's ballsy play The Inheritance was the hit of the twelvemonth. This moving story about the gay scene in New York, inspired by E.M. Forster's novel Howard's End, proved equally inspiring to its audiences.

2019 Prior to the European premiere of Broadway hit Dearest Evan Hansen the grand circumvolve bar, used as an role for many years, was given a stylish makeover and named Thelma'southward Bar in honour of the theatre producer Thelma Holt. The Dress Circle Bar, known equally the Albery Bar, was also restored to its elegant, original 1903 layout.