The Importance of Being Earnest Tickets and Dates 2025 & 2026

27 Mon 10
28Today Tue 10
1. 14:00 From £84.00
2. 19:00 From £84.00
29 Wed 10
1. 19:00 From £84.00
30 Thu 10
1. 14:00 From £84.00
2. 19:00 From £18.00
31 Fri 10
1. 19:00 From £84.00
1 Sat 11
1. 14:00 From £108.00
2. 19:00 From £18.00
2 Sun 11

More Information about The Importance of Being Earnest

Important Information

Age Recommendation 10 and over (Under 3's will not be admitted, all under 16's must be accompanied by an adult)

Performance Dates 18 Sept 2025 - 10 Jan 2026

Performance Times Mon - Sat 7pm, Thu & Sat 2pm

Content Warning Features strong language, suggestive content and smoke and haze.

Run time 2 hrs 45 mins (incl. interval)

Venue Noel Coward Theatre

About 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.

Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity.

Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade. Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.

Limited season now playing until 10 January.