Again! Step, kick, kick, leap, kick, touch… Again! God, I hope I get it… Originally devised, directed, and choreographed by Michael Bennett with a score by Marvin Hamlisch, the 1975 musical *A Chorus Line* returns to London this summer in a fresh production directed by Nikolai Foster and starring Adam Cooper and Carly Mercedes Dyer.

Cooper plays Zach, the domineering director-choreographer casting the chorus for a new Broadway musical who puts the hopefuls through the wringer – physically and...

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The iconic musical plays at Sadler's Wells this summer in an exciting new production starring Adam Cooper and Carly Mercedes Dyer.

A musical version of a chick flick? With spectacular fashion shows, epic backstabbing and a diva who’ll chill your soul, it could well be groundbreaking. *The Devil Wears Prada* struts into the West End this autumn. With an original score by Elton John and a cast led by Vanessa Williams and Matt Henry, start planning your outfit for the most stylish show in town! 

Based on the bestselling novel by Lauren Weisberger and the film starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, protagonist Andrea “Andy”...

Everything you need to know about 'The Devil Wears Prada' in the West End

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Elton John's musical version of the hit novel and film arrives at London's Dominion Theatre this autumn, starring Vanessa Williams and Matt Henry.


We’re spoiled for choice when it comes to shows in London, and it can be hard to keep up with everything that’s opening – we all have busy lives and it isn’t possible to fit everything in. Fortunately, second chances do sometimes arise!

A whole host of plays and musicals are being reprised in the West End this spring and summer, from celebrated musicals to classic drama and exciting contemporary writing. If it’s a show you’ve loved before, different cast members and venues can provide a whole...

Catch these incredible theatre shows as they return to the stage in London

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From *Sister Act* and *Hadestown* to *Standing at the Sky's Edge*, there's a wealth of fantastic shows coming into town – so don't miss out!

Make a joyful noise! West End favourite [Lee Mead](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/stars-on-stage/lee-mead) will join the cast of [*Sister Act*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/28926-sister-act) at the [Dominion Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/dominion-theatre) this June.

Mead is best known for his West End performances in *Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Legally Blonde*, [*Wicked*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/313-wicked-tickets), and, most...

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The London theatre veteran will join Ruth Jones, Alexandra Burke, and more in the musical based on the hit movie, which currently stars Beverley Knight.

The magic returns! [*My Neighbour Totoro*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/25389-my-neighbour-totoro-tickets), the stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki's beloved same-named Studio Ghibli movie, will transfer to the West End in 2025. The [Gillian Lynne Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/gillian-lynne-theatre) will host the 34-week run from 8 March to 2 November 2025. Opening night is 20 March.

*My Neighbour Totoro* follows two sisters, Satsuki and Mei, who move to the...

'My Neighbour Totoro' sets West End transfer

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Following two seasons at the Barbican Centre, the acclaimed play adapted from the classic Studio Ghibli film will play a 34-week run at the Gillian Lynne Theatre.

All hail Macbeth! *Macbeth*, starring [David Tennant](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/stars-on-stage/david-tennant) in the title role and Cush Jumbo as Lady Macbeth, will play in the West End this autumn, with performances running at the Harold Pinter Theatre from 1 October to 14 December.

The production comes to the West End from a critically acclaimed premiere at the Donmar Warehouse in fall 2023, with the entire original cast returning. Alongside Tennant (*Doctor Who*) and Jumbo (*The Good...

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo-led 'Macbeth' to transfer to the West End

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The critically acclaimed production played the Donmar Warehouse in 2023, also starring Tennant and Jumbo, and will now have a two-month run in the West End.

Truth is, no one can do what he does. Born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1947, Elton John has been one of the world’s most successful pop stars and songwriters since he released “Your Song” in 1970. 

Collaborating with lyricist Bernie Taupin, some of his greatest hits include “Tiny Dancer”, “Rocket Man”, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, “I’m Still Standing”, “Are You Ready for Love”, and, of course, “Candle in the Wind”, which was revised as a tribute to Princess Diana following her death and became a...

Explore the fantastic stage musicals of Elton John ahead of 'The Devil Wears Prada'

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Follow our guide to the shows composed by legendary pop star Elton John, including *The Lion King, Billy Elliot, Tammy Faye*, and the forthcoming West End musical *The Devil Wears Prada*.  

Revivals of musicals are often every bit as revelatory as new takes on classic plays. In recent years, Daniel Fish’s *Oklahoma!* imbued the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein classic with a chillingly contemporary significance without changing a word, and Jamie Lloyd’s stripped back *Sunset Boulevard* recently swept the Olivier Awards.

This summer, *Starlight Express* makes a spectacular return in a specially designed auditorium. There’s star casting aplenty as Imelda Staunton leads *Hello, Dolly!*...

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Relive all the joy of classic West End musicals as they return to London in 2024, including *Hello, Dolly!*, *Starlight Express*, and *Kiss Me, Kate*.

The [London Palladium](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/london-palladium) will show a *Robin Hood* pantomime in December, continuing its annual tradition of presenting a panto each Christmas season. Performances will run from 7 December 2024 to 12 January 2025.

The star-studded cast includes [Julian Clary](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/stars-on-stage/julian-clary) as Robin Hood, Jane McDonald as Maid Marion, Paul Zerdin as Will Scarlet, [Nigel...

Jane McDonald, Julian Clary to lead 'Robin Hood' panto in December

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Numerous award-winning West End actors will join the ninth annual panto at the historic venue, with performances running from December 2024 to January 2025.

*2:22 — A Ghost Story* is set to return to London’s West End for a strictly limited 10-week. The play will open at the Gielgud Theatre on 25 May.

The play premiered at the Noël Coward Theatre in 2020, and featured Lily Allen, Julia Chan, Hadley Fraser, and Jake Wood. A number of famous faces have gone on to star in the production, including Giovanna Fletcher, Tom Felton, Laura Whitmore, Cheryl, and Sophia Bush, among others. This run at the Gielgud marks the play's seventh West End season. ...

'2:22 — A Ghost Story' to return to the West End

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A number of famous faces have starred in *2:22 — A Ghost Story*, including Giovanna Fletcher, Tom Felton, Laura Whitmore, Cheryl, and Sophia Bush. 

Tennessee Williams' play <a href="/show/the-night-of-the-iguana">The Night of the Iguana</a> is set to return to the West End this year, with Clive Owen starring in a new production at the <a href="/theatres/noel-coward-theatre">Noel Coward Theatre</a> in the summer.The play follows the interactions between widow, a clergyman and a spinster who are forced together in a dilapidated Mexican hotel during a storm.Directed by James MacDonald, it will run at the <a href="/theatres/noel-coward-theatre">Noel Coward Theatre</a> for 12 weeks from 6th July, with tickets now on sale.&nbsp;Clive Owen will star in the play. Owen may be best known for his screen work in films such as Close My Eyes, Closer and Children of Men. On stage, Owen has appeared at the Hampstead Theatre, Donmar Warehouse and National Theatre.Alongside Owen will be Anna Gunn, known for playing Skylar, the wife of drug kingpin Walter White in the TV series Breaking Bad, and Lia Williams, a West End regular who has recently starred in Mary Stuart and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.<a href="/show/the-night-of-the-iguana">The Night of the Iguana</a> is at the <a href="/theatres/noel-coward-theatre">Noel Coward Theatre</a> from 6th July.<a href="/show/the-night-of-the-iguana">The Night of the Iguana tickets</a> are now on sale.Photo credit: Oneras (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/oneras/251106296" target="_blank">flickr</a>)

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The Night of the Iguana, the&nbsp;classic play written by acclaimed American playwright Tennessee Williams,&nbsp; returns to the West End at the <a href="/theatres/noel-coward-theatre">Noel Coward Theatre</a> starring Clive Owen this July. Set in a dilapidated Mexican hotel, it follows the interactions between a promiscuous widow, a clergyman and a spinster. The play was first written in 1959, and received its Broadway debut in 1961 and ran in London in 1992. Tickets are on sale now.&nbsp;The characters of the plat are Maxine, the widow who runs the hotel, Hannah and Reverend Shannon. They are thrown together in the hotel by chance, and forced to take cover from a furious storm raging outside.The Night of the Iguana will run at the <a href="/theatres/noel-coward-theatre">Noel Coward Theatre</a> from 6th July, with tickets on sale now.&nbsp;&nbsp;Clive Owen will star in James Macdonald's production of The Night of the Iguana, alongside Anna Gunn, Lia Williams and Julian Glover.The story began as a short one-act play written by Williams in 1959, before he developed it into a full-length play. Over the following two years, he staged two different versions of the play, before settling on a three-act version with opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre. It has since been staged in the US many times, and was adapted for the screen in 1964, starring Richard Burton.The Night of the Iguana last received a major staging in the West End in 2005, when Woody Harrelson, Clare Higgins and Jenny Seagrove starred in a production at the <a href="/theatres/lyric-theatre">Lyric Theatre</a> directed by Anthony Page. In a review, LondonTheatre.co.uk said that despite the show being over 40 years old, it "still has a freshness, intensity and relevance that modern audiences can certainly appreciate".An earlier London production of The Night of The Iguana starred <a href="/actor-profile/alfred-molina">Alfred Molina</a> and Eileen Atkins when Richard Eyre directed the play at the <a href="/theatres/national-theatre">National Theatre</a> in 1992.The Night of the Iguana runs at the&nbsp;<a href="/theatres/noel-coward-theatre">Noel Coward Theatre</a>&nbsp;from 6th July.&nbsp;The Night of the Iguana tickets are on sale now.&nbsp;

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Set in 1940s Mexico, “The Night of the Iguana” centers on a reverend who has been expelled from his church in the United States, after criticising the image of God. He then becomes a tour guide for a nearby travel agency, and he and his tour group arrive at a hotel for the evening and meet the curious figures of Hannah and her sick grandfather while a storm rages outside. Tensions rise as the big personalities gradually get to know one another throughout the night.  “The Night of the Iguana” shows that beauty can be found in some of the most unlikely of places.
 
Tennessee Williams originally wrote the play as a one-act, but he returned to the piece in 1959 to extend the play into three acts. It debuted on Broadway in 1961, when it was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. “The Night of the Iguana” is full of complicated characters and powerful writing allowing for notable performances in the central roles. Described by The Telegraph as a powerful look at “human desperation and the unbearable ache of loneliness,” Williams’s lesser-performed work returns to the London stage this summer.
## What to watch for
Hannah is considered one of Tennessee William’s greatest heroines, along with Blanche from “A Streetcar Named Desire” and Alma from “Summer and Smoke.”

Clive Owen returns to the West End for the first time in 18 years. He last appeared in “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” in 2001.

“The Night of the Iguana” was previously staged at the in 1992 at the National Theatre and in 2005 starring Woody Harrelson.

The play was adapted into a film in 1964 starring Richard Burton and Deborah Kerr. The movie drew a lot media attention while filming when Burton brought his partner Elizabeth Taylor to the set.

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Beyond the trilogy of acknowledged dramatic masterpieces of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the extensive repertoire of Tennessee Williams can sometimes seem ripe and overblown. But the last twelve months have seen another trilogy of his secondary plays brought to the London stage in revelatory ways, from Summer and Smoke (which transferred from the Almeida to the Duke of York's) and Orpheus Descending (at the Menier Chocolate Factory) to the latest arrival of a starrily-cast <a href="/show/the-night-of-the-iguana">The Night of the Iguana</a> at the West End's <a href="/theatres/noel-coward-theatre">Noel Coward Theatre</a>. Given that its a fully-commercial enterprise, the star billing above the title is hardly surprising, with <a href="/actor-profile/clive-owen">Clive Owen</a> making a long-overdue return to the London stage (after some 17 years) as Shannon, a former priest-turned-tour guide who turns up, off track, at an out-of-season hotel in Mexico with his disgruntled party of tourists and undergoes another of his periodic breakdowns. He charts his journey with broodingly intense desperation: he's barely clinging on. The hotel proprietor Maxine Faulk, who makes her own attempt at saving him, is played by the formidable US television and stage actor Anna Gunn, best known for her starring role as the wife of another desperate man in the series Breaking Bad, who makes her own moral compromises along the way. Gunn is a vibrant, spirited presence. But it is Lia Williams - as so often whenever she appears on a stage - who provides the beating heart of the play, as the spinster granddaughter of a dying romantic poet, as she is described, travelling with the 97-year-old man from hotel to hotel. Williams is simply spellbinding to watch; her deliberately subdued performance pierces the heart.In the play's best scene, a second act heartbreaker played out between Owen and Williams alone, they find a kinship in their shared experience of depression, and what she dubs "the blue devil." It is Chekhovian in its impact and sense of resignation but acceptance, too. Director James Macdonald trusts the scene to play it at a tight, considered pace. In fact, his entire staging is a slow-burner, clocking in at almost three hours. But it is simmeringly powerful in its execution, and stunningly realised, with Rae Smith's sets and costumes, lit by Neil Austin, providing a supremely atmospheric location.A large supporting cast populates it with detail and colour, with Finty Williams making a particularly powerful cameo as one of Shannon's tourists. As life's misfits find consolation and comfort in each other, I was truly moved.<a href="/show/the-night-of-the-iguana">The Night of the Iguana</a>&nbsp;is at the <a href="/theatres/noel-coward-theatre">Noel Coward Theatre</a>&nbsp;until 28th September.&nbsp;<a href="/show/the-night-of-the-iguana">The Night of the Iguana tickets</a> are available now.Photo credit: Brinkhoff/Moengenberg

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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.

The Noël Coward Theatre opened as the New Theatre on 12 Mar. 1903. In 1973, the theatre’s name was changed from the New Theatre to the Albery Theatre, as a tribute to the theatre’s long-serving manager Sir Bronson Albery. Sir Cameron Mackintosh acquired the theatre through his company, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres, in 2005 and renamed the theatre in memory of the famous playwright, Noel Coward.

The theatre famously played host to two theatre companies whose theatres were destroyed during the Blitz – the [Old Vic](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/old-vic-theatre) and [Sadler’s Wells](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/sadlers-wells) both performed at the theatre until their new theatres were built in the 1950s. 

The theatre also played host to the premiere of Lionel Bart’s world famous musical *Oliver!* The show was a huge success, running for 2,618 performances.

Several notable actors have appeared in productions at the theatre, including [Judi Dench](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/judi-dench), [Helen Mirren](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/helen-mirren) and [Patrick Stewart](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/patrick-stewart). 

## Noël Coward Theatre Seating Information

The auditorium has four levels - Stalls, Royal Circle, Grand Circle and Balcony.

The Stalls offers excellent views throughout. The high setting of the stage allows for good views.

The view from the Royal Circle is completely unobstructed and the seating is well raked.

The Grand Circle is set fairly high, but again offers unobstructed views of the stage. 

Whilst the Balcony is high, the seats are well raked and comfortable with a good amount of legroom.

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