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Noel Coward Theatre

Opening in 1903 as the New Theatre, Sir Charles Wyndham's lavish Edwardian pile was renamed the Albery Theatre in 1973, but in 2006 it was renamed after Noel Coward, whose debut West End play I'll Leave It To You opened here in 1920. A Grade II listed building, its more recent hits include Blackbird, Avenue Q, Calendar Girls and also Calendar Girls' distaff counterpart, The Full Monty. The nearest Tube station is Leicester Square (Northern/Piccadilly) and the 24, 29 and 176 buses stop nearby. The nearest surface rail is Charing Cross.

What's On @ Noel Coward Theatre

The Last Laugh

The Last Laugh

25 Jun 2025 - 2 Aug 2025

Direct from a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Last Laugh is a 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 the ultimate comedy night out. The Last Laugh is written and directed by the award-winning Paul Hendy, and stars Bob Golding as Morecambe, Simon Cartwright as Monkhouse and Damian Williams as Cooper.
The Comedy About Spies

The Comedy About Spies

25 Jun 2025 - 5 Sept 2025

Everybody’s hot for Mischief’s new action-packed thriller THE COMEDY ABOUT SPIES, gripping audiences with laughter from April 2025 at the Noël Coward Theatre. The multi award-winning team behind The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery step into 1960s London in this hilarious spy caper full of misunderstanding, miscommunication, and mistaken identity. A rogue British agent steals plans for a top-secret new weapon. Spies from the CIA and the KGB assemble at London’s Piccadilly Hotel to track down the British mole and obtain the file. When a young British couple and an older actor auditioning for the title role in the first James Bond film check into the hotel, the stakes reach boiling point in this riotous world of Cold War farce. ASSISTED PERFORMANCES: Audio Described - 6 June, 7:30pm Captioned - 15 August, 2:30pm BSL - 22 June, 2:30pm
The Comedy About Spies

The Comedy About Spies

4 Sept 2025 - 4 Sept 2025

Age Recommendation 10 and over (Under 3's will not be admitted, all under 16's must be accompanied by an adult) Running Time 2 hrs 15 mins (incl. interval) Tues - Sat 7.30pm, Sat & Sun 2.30pm, Sun 7pm Performance Dates Until 5 Sept 2025 Content Warning Features strobe lighting, infrequent mild bad language and the use of haze and gunshots. Where Do I go 85-88 St Martin's Ln, London WC2N 4AU, United Kingdom
The Importance Of Being Earnest

The Importance Of Being Earnest

19 Jul 2025 - 19 Jul 2025

Widely considered one of the funniest plays in English, Wilde’s much loved masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays. Jack, Algy, Gwendolyn and Cecily discover how unsmooth runs the course of true love, while Lady Bracknell keeps a baleful eye on the mayhem of manners. ‘It is very romantic to be in love. The very essence of romance is uncertainty’

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