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Noël Coward Theatre

January 01, 1970

The Noël Coward Theatre, formerly known as the Albery Theatre, is a West End theatre in St. Martin's Lane in the City of Westminster, London. It opened on 12 March 1903 as the New Theatre and was built by Sir Charles Wyndham behind Wyndham's Theatre which was completed in 1899. The building was designed by the architect W. G. R. Sprague with an exterior in the classical style and an interior in the Rococo style.

Noël Coward Theatre
New Theatre
Albery Theatre
Noël Coward Theatre in 2019
AddressSt Martin's Lane
London, WC2
United Kingdom
Coordinates51°30′40″N 0°07′38″W / 51.511111°N 0.127222°W / 51.511111; -0.127222
Public transit Leicester Square
OwnerSalisbury estate
OperatorDelfont Mackintosh Theatres
DesignationGrade II listed[1]
TypeWest End theatre
Capacity942 on 4 levels
ProductionPlayer Kings
Construction
Opened1903; 121 years ago (1903)
ArchitectW. G. R. Sprague
Website
Official website at Delfont Mackintosh Theatres

In 1973, it was renamed the Albery Theatre in tribute to Sir Bronson Albery who had presided as its manager for many years. Since September 2005, the theatre has been owned by Delfont-Mackintosh Ltd. It underwent major refurbishment in 2006 and was renamed the Noël Coward Theatre when it re-opened on 1 June 2006. The building is a Grade II Listed structure.

History edit

Early years, 1903–1919 edit

The New was the second of the three theatres in St Martin's Lane. The Trafalgar Square (now the Duke of York's) opened in 1892 and the London Coliseum in 1904. The actor-manager Charles Wyndham, who had been based at the Criterion Theatre for more than twenty years, moved in 1899 to the larger Wyndham's Theatre which he commissioned in Charing Cross Road. To build Wyndham's, he had been obliged to buy a larger parcel of land than he required, and in 1901 he was in negotiations to sell the area he did not need. When negotiations fell through, he decided to build another theatre on the vacant site. This plot fronting on St Martin's Lane is bounded on one side by St Martin's Court, which also runs behind the theatre. While the theatre was in planning and then under construction it was referred to simply as "the new theatre", and the name stuck. The street adjacent to it is called New Row.[2]

 
New Theatre, postcard, circa 1905

The theatre, like Wyndham's, was designed by the architect W.G.R. Sprague, and was the thirtieth theatre he designed. A contemporary report described the front elevation as "of the free classic order … at once dignified and effective".[3] As at Wyndhams, the auditorium is constructed on the cantilever principle, rendering columns unnecessary and ensuring unimpeded views. The internal decoration was based on French designs from the 18th century. Over the Proscenium there is a gilt trophy emblematic of peace and music.[3]

The New Theatre opened on 12 March 1903 with a brief season consisting of a revival of Rosemary – a play by Louis N. Parker and Murray Carson, starring Wyndham and his partner (later wife) Mary Moore – and a special matinée of Wyndham's best-known production, David Garrick. The following month Johnston Forbes-Robertson transferred his production of The Light that Failed from the Lyric, after which there were seasons featuring Mrs Patrick Campbell and then Cyril Maude. Fred Terry and Julia Neilson played an annual season of about six months at the New from 1905 to 1913, including many revivals of their great success, The Scarlet Pimpernel.[4] Between these seasons, productions at the New Theatre included Amasis, a comic opera by Frederick Fenn and Philip Michael Faraday (1906), with Ruth Vincent,[5] and Count Hannibal (1910). In 1911, Terry presented As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet to introduce his daughter Phyllis to the stage. Between then and the First World War, the theatre featured comedies and musical comedies.[4]

Dion Boucicault Jr., became manager in December 1915 and opened with a revival of Peter Pan, revived each Christmas season until 1919. He produced a series of successes including new plays by Somerset Maugham, J. M. Barrie, Arthur Wing Pinero and A.A. Milne. Leon M. Lion presented a season in 1918–19 in which Katharine Cornell made her only appearance on the London stage, playing Jo in a dramatisation of Little Women.[6][7]

1920s edit

 
Noël Coward and Esmé Wynne in Coward's I'll Leave It to You, 1920

I'll Leave It to You, in 1920, was Noël Coward's first staged play, and ran at the New for 37 performances.[8] Matheson Lang was associated with the New for several years, presenting and playing in Shakespeare and modern dramas. The London premiere of Bernard Shaw's St. Joan starring Sybil Thorndike followed in 1924.[9]

In July 1925, Robert Atkins took over management of the New, presenting Israel Zangwill's We Moderns. The following year and for most of 1927 the New was home to a dramatisation of Margaret Kennedy's The Constant Nymph, which ran for 587 performances, starring first Coward and then the young John Gielgud as Lewis Dodd. Towards the end of the decade, two comedies by P. G. Wodehouse and Ian Hay – A Damsel in Distress (1928), and Baa Baa Black Sheep (1929) ran for 234 and 115 performances respectively.[9]

1930s edit

In February 1933, Gielgud began a period of management at the theatre. He produced and starred in Gordon Daviot's, Richard of Bordeaux, which ran for 472 performances. He followed this in June 1934 with the same author's Queen of Scots starring Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, which ran for 106 performances. In November 1934, he presented Hamlet, which ran for 155 performances. After works by Hugh Walpole and Andre Obey, Gielgud presented a revival of Romeo and Juliet which had the longest run on record for that play: 186 performances. Peggy Ashcroft played Juliet and Edith Evans was the Nurse; Laurence Olivier played Romeo, and Gielgud Mercutio for the first part of the run and then exchanged roles. Gielgud concluded with Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Theodore Komisarjevsky, a production that, according to The Times showed the play as "among the supreme masterpieces of the theatre".[9][10] After Gielgud's tenure, there was more Shakespeare at the New: As You Like with Edith Evans and Michael Redgrave; The Taming of the Shrew with Evans and Leslie Banks; and Macbeth with Olivier and Judith Anderson (all 1937).[9]

1940s edit

During the Second World War, The Old Vic was badly damaged by German bombs, and Sadler's Wells Theatre was requisitioned as a refuge for those made homeless by air-raids. The drama company of the former and the opera and ballet companies of the latter toured nationally throughout the war, and Bronson Albery, stepson of Charles Wyndham through Mary Moore,[11] managing director of the New Theatre, made it available to all three companies as a London base, although in practice the Old Vic company occupied the theatre more than the Sadler's Wells companies. The theatre historians Mander and Mitchenson single out productions of The Beggar's Opera, King John. The Cherry Orchard and Hamlet (with Robert Helpmann in the title role). In 1944, with the end of the war in sight, a reconstituted Old Vic company took possession of the New, starring Ralph Richardson, Olivier and Thorndike. The repertory that year comprised Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Shaw's Arms and the Man, Shakespeare's Richard III and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. Between Old Vic seasons, Robert Morley and Wendy Hiller starred in a Regency drama, The First Gentleman, which ran for 654 performances.[12] The 1945 Old Vic company season added Henry IV, Parts I and II and a celebrated double bill of Oedipus and The Critic. In September 1946, King Lear and Cyrano de Bergerac were staged. Under a different management, Aldous Huxley's The Gioconda Smile was a success in 1948–49, running for 655 performances.[13][14]

1950s and 1960s edit

In 1950, The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot began a run of 325 performances. From later in the decade, Mander and Mitchenson single out Vivian Ellis's musical version of J. B. Fagan's And So to Bed (1951, 323 performances); The Young Elizabeth (1952, 498 performances); Katharine Hepburn in Shaw's The Millionairess (1952); Yvonne Arnaud in Dear Charles (1952, 466 performances); Dorothy Tutin in I Am a Camera (1954, 343 performances); a comedy about bigamy, The Remarkable Mr Pennypacker (1955, 421 performances); Leslie Caron in Colette's Gigi (1956); Under Milk Wood (1956, 250 performances); Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1957); Charles Laughton in The Party (1958); The Rose Tattoo (1959); Peter O'Toole in The Long and the Short and the Tall (1959); and the Theatre Royal Stratford East's Make Me an Offer (1959).[15][16]

In June 1960, Oliver!, the Lionel Bart musical based on Oliver Twist, was first produced, and ran until September 1966, a total of 2,618 performances. The Times reported that its run had broken the previous West End records – My Fair Lady (2,282) and Salad Days (2,283).[17] The last years of the decade brought shorter runs to the New. They included Jorrocks, a musical (1967, 181 performances); Gwen Watford and Gemma Jones in Howards End (1967, 137); Roy Dotrice playing multiple roles in the comedy World War 2 (1967, 166); the Prospect Theatre Company's production of Farquhar's The Constant Couple; Spring and Port Wine; Paul Scofield in John Osborne's The Hotel in Amsterdam; the controversial Soldiers by Rolf Hochhuth in December 1968, and in April 1969 Anne of Green Gables, a new musical with Polly James in the lead.[15][16]

1970s onward edit

A 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance, directed by Ronald Eyre, with Donald Sinden as Sir Harcourt Courtly, Roger Rees as Charles, Judi Dench as Grace and Dinsdale Landen as Dazzle, transferred to the New Theatre in 1972 for a year, prior to its 1974 run in New York. (Sinden received the 1975 Drama Desk Special Award for the Broadway run.)[18] A revival of Oliver! ran from 1977 to 1980

In 1981, Children of a Lesser God won the Olivier Awards (then known as the Society of West End Theatre Awards) for Best New Play and for actors Trevor Eve and Elizabeth Quinn. Among some of the 1980s productions is the 1994 revival of Turgenev's A Month in the Country starring Helen Mirren and John Hurt. In the 2000s the theatre has played host to several Shakespeare productions including a production of Twelfth Night set in India with an entirely Asian cast. The production played to packed houses and only closed as the Royal Shakespeare Company themselves had exclusive rights to perform their annual London season of Tragedies there. Between December 2004 and April 2005, they presented Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear and a brand new production of Euripides' Hecuba starring Vanessa Redgrave. On 8 June 2005, Dion Boucicault's Victorian melodrama The Shaughraun opened; however, its success at the Dublin Gate Theatre was not repeated in London and it closed on 30 July. A dark period of around three months followed before the theatre was transferred to the ownership of Delfont Mackintosh Limited and reopened in October 2005 with The Right Size's new production Ducktastic!. Once again this failed to live up to expectations and closed just three weeks after opening on 19 November 2005. A short Christmas season of Patrick Stewart's one-man version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol played from 6 to 31 December 2005, before the theatre hosted the Edinburgh International Festival hit drama Blackbird starring Roger Allam. The award-winning play Enron (directed by Rupert Goold, starring Samuel West and Tim Pigott-Smith) transferred here after a sellout run at the Royal Court. The European premiere of the Broadway hit, Avenue Q, started previewing on 2 June 2006 and had its opening night on 28 June 2006, finally closing on 28 March 2009 prior to transferring to the Gielgud Theatre. Following a production of Deathtrap, directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Simon Russell Beale and Jonathan Groff, the theatre became the home of jukebox musical Million Dollar Quartet in February 2011.

Other productions since 2000 edit

The Michael Grandage Company edit

References and sources edit

References edit

  1. ^ Historic England (27 June 1963). "The Albery Theatre (now the Noël Coward Theatre) (1264767)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  2. ^ Mander and Mitchenson (1975), pp. 11–12
  3. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson (1975), p. 12
  4. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson (1975), p. 13
  5. ^ "New Theatre", The Times, 10 August 1906, p. 3
  6. ^ "Little Women", The Manchester Guardian, 11 October 1919, p. 12
  7. ^ Mander and Mitchenson (1975), p. 14
  8. ^ Mander and Mitchenson (2000), p. 36
  9. ^ a b c d Mander and Mitchenson (1975), pp. 14–15
  10. ^ "New Theatre", The Times, 21 May 1936, p. 14
  11. ^ Trewin, Wendy (2004). "Moore, Mary Charlotte [married name Mary Charlotte Wyndham, Lady Wyndham] (1861–1931), actress and theatre manager". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37053. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 2 October 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  12. ^ Gaye, p. 1531
  13. ^ Gaye, p. 1532
  14. ^ Mander and Mitchenson (1975) pp. 15–16
  15. ^ a b Gaye, pp. 1530–1540
  16. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson (1975), p. 16
  17. ^ "Oliver! Out For 2,618", The Times, 9 September 1966
  18. ^ Who's Who in the Theatre, 17th edition (1981)[page needed],
  19. ^ Arthur Miller Classic Death Of A Salesman To Make West End Transfer, London Theatre Direct. Quoted: 24 April 2015.
  20. ^ Half a Sixpence transfers to the Noel Coward Theatre from 29 October 2016[permanent dead link], London Theatre Direct. Quoted: 31 August 2015.
  21. ^ Nicole Kidman Returns To The West End In Photograph 51, London Theatre Direct. Quoted: 24 April 2015.

Sources edit

  • Gaye, Freda, ed. (1967). Who's Who in the Theatre (fourteenth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. OCLC 5997224.
  • Mander, Raymond; Joe Mitchenson (1975). The Theatres of London. New English Library. ISBN 978-1-84002-054-0.
  • Mander, Raymond; Joe Mitchenson (2000) [1957]. Theatrical Companion to Coward. Barry Day and Sheridan Morley (2000 edition, ed.) (second ed.). London: Oberon Books. ISBN 978-1-84002-054-0.

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The Noel Coward Theatre formerly known as the Albery Theatre is a West End theatre in St Martin s Lane in the City of Westminster London It opened on 12 March 1903 as the New Theatre and was built by Sir Charles Wyndham behind Wyndham s Theatre which was completed in 1899 The building was designed by the architect W G R Sprague with an exterior in the classical style and an interior in the Rococo style Noel Coward TheatreNew TheatreAlbery TheatreNoel Coward Theatre in 2019AddressSt Martin s LaneLondon WC2United KingdomCoordinates51 30 40 N 0 07 38 W 51 511111 N 0 127222 W 51 511111 0 127222Public transitLeicester SquareOwnerSalisbury estateOperatorDelfont Mackintosh TheatresDesignationGrade II listed 1 TypeWest End theatreCapacity942 on 4 levelsProductionPlayer KingsConstructionOpened1903 121 years ago 1903 ArchitectW G R SpragueWebsiteOfficial website at Delfont Mackintosh Theatres In 1973 it was renamed the Albery Theatre in tribute to Sir Bronson Albery who had presided as its manager for many years Since September 2005 the theatre has been owned by Delfont Mackintosh Ltd It underwent major refurbishment in 2006 and was renamed the Noel Coward Theatre when it re opened on 1 June 2006 The building is a Grade II Listed structure Contents 1 History 1 1 Early years 1903 1919 1 2 1920s 1 3 1930s 1 4 1940s 1 5 1950s and 1960s 1 6 1970s onward 1 7 Other productions since 2000 1 8 The Michael Grandage Company 2 References and sources 2 1 References 2 2 Sources 3 External linksHistory editEarly years 1903 1919 edit The New was the second of the three theatres in St Martin s Lane The Trafalgar Square now the Duke of York s opened in 1892 and the London Coliseum in 1904 The actor manager Charles Wyndham who had been based at the Criterion Theatre for more than twenty years moved in 1899 to the larger Wyndham s Theatre which he commissioned in Charing Cross Road To build Wyndham s he had been obliged to buy a larger parcel of land than he required and in 1901 he was in negotiations to sell the area he did not need When negotiations fell through he decided to build another theatre on the vacant site This plot fronting on St Martin s Lane is bounded on one side by St Martin s Court which also runs behind the theatre While the theatre was in planning and then under construction it was referred to simply as the new theatre and the name stuck The street adjacent to it is called New Row 2 nbsp New Theatre postcard circa 1905 The theatre like Wyndham s was designed by the architect W G R Sprague and was the thirtieth theatre he designed A contemporary report described the front elevation as of the free classic order at once dignified and effective 3 As at Wyndhams the auditorium is constructed on the cantilever principle rendering columns unnecessary and ensuring unimpeded views The internal decoration was based on French designs from the 18th century Over the Proscenium there is a gilt trophy emblematic of peace and music 3 The New Theatre opened on 12 March 1903 with a brief season consisting of a revival of Rosemary a play by Louis N Parker and Murray Carson starring Wyndham and his partner later wife Mary Moore and a special matinee of Wyndham s best known production David Garrick The following month Johnston Forbes Robertson transferred his production of The Light that Failed from the Lyric after which there were seasons featuring Mrs Patrick Campbell and then Cyril Maude Fred Terry and Julia Neilson played an annual season of about six months at the New from 1905 to 1913 including many revivals of their great success The Scarlet Pimpernel 4 Between these seasons productions at the New Theatre included Amasis a comic opera by Frederick Fenn and Philip Michael Faraday 1906 with Ruth Vincent 5 and Count Hannibal 1910 In 1911 Terry presented As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet to introduce his daughter Phyllis to the stage Between then and the First World War the theatre featured comedies and musical comedies 4 Dion Boucicault Jr became manager in December 1915 and opened with a revival of Peter Pan revived each Christmas season until 1919 He produced a series of successes including new plays by Somerset Maugham J M Barrie Arthur Wing Pinero and A A Milne Leon M Lion presented a season in 1918 19 in which Katharine Cornell made her only appearance on the London stage playing Jo in a dramatisation of Little Women 6 7 1920s edit nbsp Noel Coward and Esme Wynne in Coward s I ll Leave It to You 1920 I ll Leave It to You in 1920 was Noel Coward s first staged play and ran at the New for 37 performances 8 Matheson Lang was associated with the New for several years presenting and playing in Shakespeare and modern dramas The London premiere of Bernard Shaw s St Joan starring Sybil Thorndike followed in 1924 9 In July 1925 Robert Atkins took over management of the New presenting Israel Zangwill s We Moderns The following year and for most of 1927 the New was home to a dramatisation of Margaret Kennedy s The Constant Nymph which ran for 587 performances starring first Coward and then the young John Gielgud as Lewis Dodd Towards the end of the decade two comedies by P G Wodehouse and Ian Hay A Damsel in Distress 1928 and Baa Baa Black Sheep 1929 ran for 234 and 115 performances respectively 9 1930s edit In February 1933 Gielgud began a period of management at the theatre He produced and starred in Gordon Daviot s Richard of Bordeaux which ran for 472 performances He followed this in June 1934 with the same author s Queen of Scots starring Gwen Ffrangcon Davies which ran for 106 performances In November 1934 he presented Hamlet which ran for 155 performances After works by Hugh Walpole and Andre Obey Gielgud presented a revival of Romeo and Juliet which had the longest run on record for that play 186 performances Peggy Ashcroft played Juliet and Edith Evans was the Nurse Laurence Olivier played Romeo and Gielgud Mercutio for the first part of the run and then exchanged roles Gielgud concluded with Chekhov s The Seagull directed by Theodore Komisarjevsky a production that according to The Times showed the play as among the supreme masterpieces of the theatre 9 10 After Gielgud s tenure there was more Shakespeare at the New As You Like with Edith Evans and Michael Redgrave The Taming of the Shrew with Evans and Leslie Banks and Macbeth with Olivier and Judith Anderson all 1937 9 1940s edit During the Second World War The Old Vic was badly damaged by German bombs and Sadler s Wells Theatre was requisitioned as a refuge for those made homeless by air raids The drama company of the former and the opera and ballet companies of the latter toured nationally throughout the war and Bronson Albery stepson of Charles Wyndham through Mary Moore 11 managing director of the New Theatre made it available to all three companies as a London base although in practice the Old Vic company occupied the theatre more than the Sadler s Wells companies The theatre historians Mander and Mitchenson single out productions of The Beggar s Opera King John The Cherry Orchard and Hamlet with Robert Helpmann in the title role In 1944 with the end of the war in sight a reconstituted Old Vic company took possession of the New starring Ralph Richardson Olivier and Thorndike The repertory that year comprised Ibsen s Peer Gynt Shaw s Arms and the Man Shakespeare s Richard III and Chekhov s Uncle Vanya Between Old Vic seasons Robert Morley and Wendy Hiller starred in a Regency drama The First Gentleman which ran for 654 performances 12 The 1945 Old Vic company season added Henry IV Parts I and II and a celebrated double bill of Oedipus and The Critic In September 1946 King Lear and Cyrano de Bergerac were staged Under a different management Aldous Huxley s The Gioconda Smile was a success in 1948 49 running for 655 performances 13 14 1950s and 1960s edit In 1950 The Cocktail Party by T S Eliot began a run of 325 performances From later in the decade Mander and Mitchenson single out Vivian Ellis s musical version of J B Fagan s And So to Bed 1951 323 performances The Young Elizabeth 1952 498 performances Katharine Hepburn in Shaw s The Millionairess 1952 Yvonne Arnaud in Dear Charles 1952 466 performances Dorothy Tutin in I Am a Camera 1954 343 performances a comedy about bigamy The Remarkable Mr Pennypacker 1955 421 performances Leslie Caron in Colette s Gigi 1956 Under Milk Wood 1956 250 performances Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1957 Charles Laughton in The Party 1958 The Rose Tattoo 1959 Peter O Toole in The Long and the Short and the Tall 1959 and the Theatre Royal Stratford East s Make Me an Offer 1959 15 16 In June 1960 Oliver the Lionel Bart musical based on Oliver Twist was first produced and ran until September 1966 a total of 2 618 performances The Times reported that its run had broken the previous West End records My Fair Lady 2 282 and Salad Days 2 283 17 The last years of the decade brought shorter runs to the New They included Jorrocks a musical 1967 181 performances Gwen Watford and Gemma Jones in Howards End 1967 137 Roy Dotrice playing multiple roles in the comedy World War 2 1967 166 the Prospect Theatre Company s production of Farquhar s The Constant Couple Spring and Port Wine Paul Scofield in John Osborne s The Hotel in Amsterdam the controversial Soldiers by Rolf Hochhuth in December 1968 and in April 1969 Anne of Green Gables a new musical with Polly James in the lead 15 16 1970s onward edit This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed August 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message A 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Dion Boucicault s London Assurance directed by Ronald Eyre with Donald Sinden as Sir Harcourt Courtly Roger Rees as Charles Judi Dench as Grace and Dinsdale Landen as Dazzle transferred to the New Theatre in 1972 for a year prior to its 1974 run in New York Sinden received the 1975 Drama Desk Special Award for the Broadway run 18 A revival of Oliver ran from 1977 to 1980In 1981 Children of a Lesser God won the Olivier Awards then known as the Society of West End Theatre Awards for Best New Play and for actors Trevor Eve and Elizabeth Quinn Among some of the 1980s productions is the 1994 revival of Turgenev s A Month in the Country starring Helen Mirren and John Hurt In the 2000s the theatre has played host to several Shakespeare productions including a production of Twelfth Night set in India with an entirely Asian cast The production played to packed houses and only closed as the Royal Shakespeare Company themselves had exclusive rights to perform their annual London season of Tragedies there Between December 2004 and April 2005 they presented Hamlet Romeo amp Juliet Macbeth King Lear and a brand new production of Euripides Hecuba starring Vanessa Redgrave On 8 June 2005 Dion Boucicault s Victorian melodrama The Shaughraun opened however its success at the Dublin Gate Theatre was not repeated in London and it closed on 30 July A dark period of around three months followed before the theatre was transferred to the ownership of Delfont Mackintosh Limited and reopened in October 2005 with The Right Size s new production Ducktastic Once again this failed to live up to expectations and closed just three weeks after opening on 19 November 2005 A short Christmas season of Patrick Stewart s one man version of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol played from 6 to 31 December 2005 before the theatre hosted the Edinburgh International Festival hit drama Blackbird starring Roger Allam The award winning play Enron directed by Rupert Goold starring Samuel West and Tim Pigott Smith transferred here after a sellout run at the Royal Court The European premiere of the Broadway hit Avenue Q started previewing on 2 June 2006 and had its opening night on 28 June 2006 finally closing on 28 March 2009 prior to transferring to the Gielgud Theatre Following a production of Deathtrap directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Simon Russell Beale and Jonathan Groff the theatre became the home of jukebox musical Million Dollar Quartet in February 2011 Other productions since 2000 edit This section has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed August 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message This section is in list format but may read better as prose You can help by converting this section if appropriate Editing help is available July 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Endgame 10 March 2004 1 May 2004 by Samuel Beckett starring Lee Evans and Michael Gambon Suddenly Last Summer 14 May 2004 31 July 2004 by Tennessee Williams starring Diana Rigg Twelfth Night 26 August 2004 30 October 2004 by William Shakespeare starring Raza Jaffrey and Kulvinder Ghir The Royal Shakespeare Company s Hamlet 23 November 2004 11 December 2004 by William Shakespeare starring Toby Stephens Peter Pan 100 Years of Peter Pan 19 December 2004 by JM Barrie The Royal Shakespeare Company s Romeo and Juliet 21 December 2004 8 January 2005 by William Shakespeare The Royal Shakespeare Company s King Lear 18 January 2005 5 February 2005 by William Shakespeare starring Corin Redgrave The Royal Shakespeare Company s Macbeth 16 February 2005 5 March 2005 by William Shakespeare The Royal Shakespeare Company s Hecuba 7 April 2005 7 May 2005 by Tony Harrison adapted from Euripides starring Vanessa Redgrave The Shaughraun 8 June 2005 30 July 2005 by Dion Boucicault Ducktastic 19 October 2005 19 November 2005 by Sean Foley and Hamish McColl Celebration Harold Pinter 1 3 December 2005 by Harold Pinter A Christmas Carol 7 December 2005 31 December 2005 by Patrick Stewart adapted from Charles Dickens starring Patrick Stewart Blackbird 13 February 2006 13 May 2006 by David Harrower starring Roger Allam and Jodhi May Avenue Q 28 June 2006 28 March 2009 Calendar Girls 13 April 2009 9 January 2010 Enron 26 January 2010 14 August 2010 Deathtrap 7 September 2010 15 January 2011 by Ira Levin starring Simon Russell Beale and Jonathan Groff Million Dollar Quartet 28 February 2011 14 January 2012 Hay Fever 23 February 2012 2 June 2012 by Noel Coward starring Lindsay Duncan Jeremy Northam Kevin McNally and Olivia Colman Gatz 13 June 2012 15 July 2012 Julius Caesar 8 August 2012 15 September 2012 by William Shakespeare RSC transfer starring Paterson Joseph Ray Fearon Jeffery Kissoon and Cyril Nri Much Ado About Nothing 22 September 2012 27 October 2012 by William Shakespeare RSC transfer starring Meera Syal Uncle Vanya 5 November 2012 10 November 2012 performed in Russian with English subtitles The Full Monty 25 February 2014 29 March 2014 Good People 19 April 2014 14 June 2014 starring Imelda Staunton Shakespeare in Love 25 July 2014 18 April 2015 Death of a Salesman 13 May 2015 19 18 July 2015 by Arthur Miller RSC transfer starring Antony Sher and Harriet Walter Impossible 24 July 2015 29 August 2015 A Christmas Carol 9 December 2015 30 January 2016 by Charles Dickens adapted by Patrick Barlow starring Jim Broadbent Mrs Henderson Presents 16 February 2016 18 June 2016 starring Tracie Bennett Impossible 13 July 2016 27 August 2016 Half A Sixpence 17 November 2016 20 2 September 2017 Labour of Love by James Graham 3 October 2017 2 December 2017 starring Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig Girl from the North Country 11 January 2018 24 March 2018 Quiz 10 April 2018 16 June 2018 by James Graham The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh 4 July 2018 8 September 2018 starring Aidan Turner The Inheritance 13 October 2018 5 January 2019 by Matthew Lopez starring John Benjamin Hickey and Vanessa Redgrave All About Eve 12 February 2019 11 May 2019 starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James The Night of the Iguana 16 July 2019 28 September 2019 by Tennessee Williams starring Clive Owen and Anna Gunn Dear Evan Hansen 19 November 2019 22 October 2022 starring Sam Tutty The Comeback 8 December 2020 15 December 2020 and 10 July 2021 31 July 2021 Best of Enemies 14 November 2022 18 February 2023 starring David Harewood and Zachary Quinto The Great British Bake Off Musical 25 February 2023 13 May 2023 Patriots 26 May 2023 19 August 2023 by Peter Morgan starring Tom Hollander The Ocean at the End of the Lane 11 October 2023 25 November 2023 by Neil Gaiman adapted by Joel Horwood starring Charlie Brooks The Motive and the Cue 9 December 2023 23 March 2024 by Jack Thorne directed by Sam Mendes starring Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn Player Kings 1 April 2024 22 June 2024 by Robert Icke starring Ian McKellen Dr Strangelove 8 October 2024 21 December 2024 by Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley starring Steve Coogan The Michael Grandage Company edit Privates on Parade by Peter Nichols 10 December 2012 2 March 2013 starring Simon Russell Beale Peter and Alice by John Logan 25 March 2013 1 June 2013 starring Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh 18 June 2013 31 August 2013 starring Daniel Radcliffe A Midsummer Night s Dream by William Shakespeare 17 September 2013 16 November 2013 starring Sheridan Smith and David Walliams Henry V by William Shakespeare 3 December 2013 15 February 2014 starring Jude Law Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler 14 September 2015 21 21 November 2015 starring Nicole KidmanReferences and sources editReferences edit Historic England 27 June 1963 The Albery Theatre now the Noel Coward Theatre 1264767 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 9 October 2014 Mander and Mitchenson 1975 pp 11 12 a b Mander and Mitchenson 1975 p 12 a b Mander and Mitchenson 1975 p 13 New Theatre The Times 10 August 1906 p 3 Little Women The Manchester Guardian 11 October 1919 p 12 Mander and Mitchenson 1975 p 14 Mander and Mitchenson 2000 p 36 a b c d Mander and Mitchenson 1975 pp 14 15 New Theatre The Times 21 May 1936 p 14 Trewin Wendy 2004 Moore Mary Charlotte married name Mary Charlotte Wyndham Lady Wyndham 1861 1931 actress and theatre manager Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 ref odnb 37053 ISBN 978 0 19 861412 8 Retrieved 2 October 2021 Subscription or UK public library membership required Gaye p 1531 Gaye p 1532 Mander and Mitchenson 1975 pp 15 16 a b Gaye pp 1530 1540 a b Mander and Mitchenson 1975 p 16 Oliver Out For 2 618 The Times 9 September 1966 Who s Who in the Theatre 17th edition 1981 page needed Arthur Miller Classic Death Of A Salesman To Make West End Transfer London Theatre Direct Quoted 24 April 2015 Half a Sixpence transfers to the Noel Coward Theatre from 29 October 2016 permanent dead link London Theatre Direct Quoted 31 August 2015 Nicole Kidman Returns To The West End In Photograph 51 London Theatre Direct Quoted 24 April 2015 Sources edit Gaye Freda ed 1967 Who s Who in the Theatre fourteenth ed London Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons OCLC 5997224 Mander Raymond Joe Mitchenson 1975 The Theatres of London New English Library ISBN 978 1 84002 054 0 Mander Raymond Joe Mitchenson 2000 1957 Theatrical Companion to Coward Barry Day and Sheridan Morley 2000 edition ed second ed London Oberon Books ISBN 978 1 84002 054 0 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Noel Coward Theatre Theatre History Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Noel Coward Theatre amp oldid 1220240317, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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