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Contents
2009 Olivier Awards Winners
Theatregoers Choice Awards Nominations
Evening Standard Theatre Awards – results
Laurence Olivier Awards

2009 Olivier Awards Winners

Winners of the 2009 Olivier Awards

Updated

Best Actor – Derek Jacobi (Twelfth Night)

Best Actress – Margaret Tyzack (Chalk Garden)

Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a MusicalLesli Margherita (Zorro)

Best New ComedyGod Of Carnage

New Musical: Jersey Boys

NEW PLAY: Black Watch

MUSICAL REVIVAL: La Cage Aux Folles

PLAY REVIVAL: The Histories

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN AN AFFILIATE THEATRE: The Pride

DIRECTOR: John Tiffany, “Black Watch”

ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL: Elena Roger, “Piaf,” Donmar Warehouse and Vaudeville Theater

ACTOR IN A MUSICAL: Douglas Hodge, “La Cage Aux Folles,”

SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE: Patrick Stewart, “Hamlet,” Novello Theater

COMPANY PERFORMANCE: “The Histories”

ENTERTAINMENT: “La Clique,” Hippodrome

THEATER CHOREOGRAPHY: Steven Hoggett, “Black Watch”

LIGHTING: Paule Constable, “The Chalk Garden”

SETS: Todd Rosenthal, “August: Osage County,” Steppenwolf at the National Theater

COSTUMES: Tom Piper and Emma Williams, “The Histories”

SOUND: Gareth Fry, “Black Watch”

NEW OPERA PRODUCTION: “Partenope,” English National Opera, Coliseum

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Theatregoers Choice Awards Nominations

Voting opens at WhatsOnStage today for the Theatregoers Choice Awards 2008

Here is the full list of nominations:

The SPOTLIGHT Best Actress in a Play
Deanna Dunagan (August: Osage County – National Theatre Lyttelton)
Katy Stephens (The Histories – Royal Shakespeare Company at the Roundhouse)
Lesley Sharp (Harper Regan – National Theatre Cottesloe)
Lindsay Duncan (That Face – Duke of York’s Theatre)
Margaret Tyzack (The Chalk Garden – Donmar Warehouse)
Penelope Wilton (The Chalk Garden – Donmar Warehouse)

The SPOTLIGHT Best Actor in a Play
Adam Godley (Rain Man – Apollo Theatre)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (Othello – Donmar Warehouse)
Eddie Redmayne (Now Or Later – Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs)
Ian McDiarmid (Six Characters In Search Of An Author – Gielgud Theatre)
Kenneth Branagh (Ivanov – Donmar West End at the Wyndham’s Theatre)
Kevin Spacey & Jeff Goldblum (Speed-The-Plow – Old Vic)

Best Supporting Actress in a Play
Barbara Jefford (Pygmalion – Old Vic)
Denise Gough (Six Characters In Search Of An Author – Gielgud Theatre)
Michelle Terry (The Man Who Had All The Luck – Donmar Warehouse)
Phoebe Nicholls (The Vortex – Apollo Theatre & Waste – Almeida Theatre)
Sophie Thompson (The Female Of The Species – Vaudeville Theatre)
Susan Engel (Her Naked Skin – National Theatre Olivier)

Best Supporting Actor in a Play
Douglas Henshall (The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot – Almeida Theatre)
Kevin R McNally (Ivanov – Donmar West End at the Wyndham’s Theatre)
Malcolm Sinclair (Rosmersholm – Almeida Theatre)
Paul Ready (Major Barbara – National Theatre Olivier)
Pip Carter (Gethsemane – National Theatre Cottesloe)
Tom Hiddleston (Othello – Donmar Warehouse & Ivanov – Donmar West End at the Wyndham’s Theatre)

The VIAGOGO Best Actress in a Musical
Connie Fisher (They’re Playing Our Song – Menier Chocolate Factory)
Elena Roger (Piaf – Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville Theatre)
Leila Benn Harris (Imagine This – New London Theatre)
Lisa O’Hare (Gigi – Open Air Theatre)
Ruthie Henshall (Marguerite – Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Sofia Escobar (West Side Story – Sadler’s Wells)

The SEE TICKETS Best Actor in a Musical
Darius Danesh (Gone With The Wind – New London Theatre)
Douglas Hodge (La Cage Aux Folles – Menier Chocolate Factory & Playhouse Theatre)
Julian Ovenden (Marguerite – Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Matt Rawle (Zorro – Garrick Theatre)
Rolan Bell (The Harder They Come – Barbican Theatre & Playhouse Theatre)
Ryan Molloy (Jersey Boys – Prince Edward Theatre)

Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
Lesli Margherita (Zorro – Garrick Theatre)
Linda Thorson (Gigi – Open Air Theatre)
Lorraine Bruce (Piaf – Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville Theatre)
Natasha Yvette Williams (Gone With The Wind – New London Theatre)
Sophia Ragavelas (Never Forget – Savoy Theatre)
Tracie Bennett (La Cage Aux Folles – Playhouse Theatre)

Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
Alexander Hanson (Marguerite – Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Jason Pennycooke (La Cage Aux Folles – Menier Chocolate Factory & Playhouse Theatre)
Luke Evans (Piaf – Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville Theatre)
Michael Matus (Imagine This – New London Theatre)
Nick Cavaliere (Zorro – Garrick Theatre)
Stephen Ashfield (Jersey Boys – Prince Edward Theatre)

Best Solo Performance
David Bradley (The Quiz – Trafalgar Studio 2)
Derren Brown (Derren Brown Mindreader: An Evening Of Wonders – Garrick Theatre)
Eddie Izzard (Eddie Izzard: Stripped – Lyric Theatre)
Maria Friedman (Maria Friedman: Rearranged – Menier Chocolate Factory)
Nadine Marshall (Random – Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs)
Vanessa Redgrave (The Year Of Magical Thinking – National Theatre Lyttelton)

The AMBASSADOR TICKETS Best Ensemble Performance
August: Osage County – National Theatre Lyttelton
Black Watch – National Theatre of Scotland at the Barbican Theatre
Brief Encounter – Cinema, Haymarket
Into The Hoods – Novello Theatre
The Histories – Royal Shakespeare Compnay at the Roundhouse
The Norman Conquests – Old Vic

The MILK TWO SUGARS Best Takeover in a Role
Daniel Boys (Avenue Q – Noël Coward Theatre)
Denis Lawson (La Cage Aux Folles – Playhouse Theatre)
Kelly Brook (Fat Pig – Comedy Theatre)
Rachel Tucker (We Will Rock You – Dominion Theatre)
Summer Strallen (The Sound Of Music – London Palladium)
Suzanne Shaw (Chicago – Cambridge Theatre)

The NICK HERN BOOKS Best New Play
August: Osage County (by Tracy Letts – National Theatre Lyttelton)
Black Watch (by Gregory Burke – National Theatre of Scotland at the Barbican Theatre)
Now Or Later (by Christopher Shinn – Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs)
That Face (by Polly Stenham – Duke of York’s Theatre)
The Pitmen Painters (by Lee Hall – National Theatre Cottesloe)
Under The Blue Sky (by David Eldridge – Duke of York’s Theatre)

Best New Comedy
Fat Pig (by Neil LaBute – Trafalgar Studio 1 & Comedy Theatre)
God Of Carnage (by Yasmina Reza – Gielgud Theatre)
Lifecoach (by Nick Reed – Trafalgar Studio 2)
The Female Of The Species (by Joanna Murray-Smith – Vaudeville Theatre)
The Walworth Farce (by Enda Walsh – National Theatre Cottesloe)
Well (by Lisa Kron – Trafalgar Studio 2)

The WALDORF HILTON Best New Musical
Eurobeat (by Craig Christie & Andrew Patterson – Novello Theatre)
Imagine This (by Shuki Levy, David Goldsmith & Glenn Berenbeim – New London Theatre)
Jersey Boys (by Bob Gaudio, Bob Crewe, Rick Elice & Marshall Brickman – Prince Edward Theatre)
Marguerite (by Michel Legrand, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boubil, Claude-Michel Schönberg & Jonathan Kent – Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Never Forget (by Guy Jones, Daniel Brocklehurst & Ed Curtis -Savoy Theatre)
Zorro (by the Gipsy Kings, John Cameron, Stephen Clark & Helen Edmundson -Garrick Theatre)

The EMG Best Play Revival
Ivanov – Donmar West End at the Wyndham’s Theatre
Six Characters In Search Of An Author – Gielgud Theatre
Speed-The-Plow – Old Vic
The Chalk Garden – Donmar Warehouse
The Norman Conquests – Old Vic
Waste – Almeida Theatre

The TICKETMASTER Best Musical Revival
Candide – London Coliseum
Gigi – Open Air Theatre
La Cage Aux Folles – Menier Chocolate Factory & Playhouse Theatre
Piaf – Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville Theatre
They’re Playing Our Song – Menier Chocolate Factory
West Side Story – Sadler’s Wells

Best Shakespearean Production
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare’s Globe
Much Ado About Nothing – National Theatre Olivier
Othello – Donmar Warehouse
The Histories – Royal Shakespeare Company at the Roundhouse
The Merry Wives Of Windsor – Shakespeare’s Globe
Twelfth Night – Tricycle Theatre

The SEATCHOICE Best Director
Emma Rice (Brief Encounter – Cinema Haymarket)
Michael Grandage (Othello & The Chalk Garden – Donmar Warehouse / Ivanov, Donmar West End at the Wyndham’s Theatre)
Matthew Warchus (The Norman Conquests – Old Vic)
Michael Boyd (The Histories – Royal Shakespeare Company at the Roundhouse)
Rupert Goold (The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot – Almeida / Six Characters In Search Of An Author – Gielgud Theatre / No Man’s Land – Duke of York’s Theatre)
Samuel West (Dealer’s Choice – Trafalgar Studio 1 / Waste – Almeida Theatre)

Best Set Designer
Eugene Lee (Imagine This – New London Theatre)
Klara Zieglerova (Jersey Boys – Prince Edward Theatre)
Miriam Buether (In The Red And Brown Water – Young Vic)
Neil Murray (Brief Encounter – Cinema Haymarket)
Rob Howell (The Norman Conquests – Old Vic)
Tom Piper (The Histories – Royal Shakespeare Company at the Roundhouse)

The WHITE LIGHT Best Lighting Designer
Chahine Yavroyan (Relocated – Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs / Wig Out! -Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs)
Jeal Kalman (The Year Of Magical Thinking – National Theatre Lyttelton / In The Red And Brown Water – Young Vic)
Malcolm Rippeth (Brief Encounter – Cinema Haymarket / Six Characters In Search Of An Author – Gielgud Theatre)
Mark Henderson (Under The Blue Sky – Duke of York’s Theatre / Marguerite & The Sea – Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Neil Austin (Piaf – Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville Theatre / No Man’s Land – Duke of York’s Theatre / Oedipus at the National Theatre Olivier)
Paule Constable (Othello & The Chalk Garden – Donmar Warehouse / Ivanov – Donmar West End at the Wyndham’s Theatre)

Best Choreographer
Akram Khan (In-I – National Theatre Lyttelton)
Karen Bruce (Never Forget – Savoy Theatre)
Kate Prince (Into The Hoods – Novello Theatre)
Lynne Page (La Cage Aux Folles – Menier Chocolate Factory & Playhouse Theatre)
Matthew Bourne (Dorian Gray – Sadler’s Wells)
Rafael Armago (Zorro – Garrick)

The DEWYNTERS London Newcomer of the Year
Ella Smith (Fat Pig – Trafalgar Studio 1 & Comedy Theatre)
George Sampson (Into The Hoods – Novello Theatre)
Joseph Mawle (The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot – Almeida Theatre)
Josh Hartnett (Rain Man – Apollo Theatre)
Ray Davies (Come Dancing – Theatre Royal Stratford East)
Tarell Alvin McCraney (In The Red And Brown Water & The Brothers Size – Young Vic / Wig Out! – Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs

The MOBIUS Best Off-West End Production
An Enemy Of The People – Arcola Theatre
Come Dancing – Theatre Royal Stratford East
Piranha Heights – Soho Theatre
Plague Over England – Finborough Theatre
The Vaclav Havel season – Orange Tree Theatre
The White Devil – Menier Chocolate Factory

The TARGET LIVE Best Regional Production
Calendar Girls – Chichester Festival Theatre & on tour
Hamlet – Royal Shakespeare Company at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
On The Waterfront – Nottingham Playhouse & Edinburgh Fringe
Once Upon A Time At The Adelphi – Liverpool Playhouse
The Glass Menagerie – Royal Exchange, Manchester
The Music Man – Chichester Festival Theatre

The AKA Theatre Event of the Year
David Tennant returning to the stage in Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company
The launch of the Donmar West End season at the Wyndham’s Theatre
La Clique’s London debut at the Hippodrome
The in-the-round transformation of the Old Vic for The Norman Conquests
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s complete staging of The Histories at the Roundhouse
Widespread protests over arts funding cutbacks

Honourable mentions:
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 60th birthday celebration in Hyde Park
Robert Lepage’s nine-hour Lipsynch at the Barbican
Daniel Radcliffe & James Corden’s onstage kiss at the 2008 Theatregoers’ Choice Awards Concert

Evening Standard Theatre Awards – results

Winners of this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards have been announced. The 54th Evening Standard Awards were hosted by Richard Wilson at the Royal Opera House.

Nominees and Winners

Best Actor:

Kenneth Branagh in Chekhov’s Ivanov.

Chiwetel Ejiofor – title role in Othello

David Calder – King Lear.

And the winner was:

Chiwetel Ejiofor for Othello

Best Actress:

Penelope Wilton- The Chalk Garden

Margaret Tyzack – The Chalk Garden.

Lesley Sharp -Harper Regan.

And the joint winners were:

Margaret Tyzack and Penelope Wilton for The Chalk Garden

Best Play:

Black Watch – based on interviews with former soldiers who served in Iraq

Now Or Later – an examination of a fictional American election

The Pitmen Painters-based on a real-life story of miners in the 1930s who were celebrated after taking up art.

And the winner was:

The Pitmen Painters

Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

Street Scene (The Opera Group and Young Vic)

There was also a special award for Kevin Spacey in recognition of his work at the Old Vic.

The Milton Shulman Award for best Newcomer:

Ella Smith in Fat Pig (Trafalgar Studios and Comedy Theatre)

Nicholas de Jongh (Evening Standard theatre critic and judge) said:

“It’s been an astonishing year in the London theatre.”

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Laurence Olivier Awards

Full list of winners and nominees (winners in bold)

The FRANCO’S Best Actress in a Play
Anne-Marie Duff – Saint Joan (National Olivier)
Janie Dee – Shadowlands (Wyndham’s)
Kate Fleetwood – Macbeth (Gielgud)
Kristin Scott Thomas – The Seagull (Royal Court Downstairs)
Maggie Smith – The Lady From Dubuque (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Tamsin Greig – Much Ado About Nothing (Novello)

Best Actor in a Play
Charles Dance – Shadowlands (Wyndham’s)
Ian McKellen – King Lear, RSC (New London)
John Simm – Elling (Bush & Trafalgar Studios)
Paterson Joseph – The Emperor Jones (National Olivier)
Patrick Stewart – Macbeth (Gielgud), The Tempest & Antony And Cleopatra (Novello)
Robert Lindsay – The Entertainer (Old Vic)

Best Supporting Actress in a Play
Amanda Hale – The Glass Menagerie (Apollo)
Andrea Riseborough – The Pain & The Itch (Royal Court Downstairs)
Diana Rigg – All About My Mother (Old Vic)
Frances de la Tour – Boeing-Boeing (Comedy)
Pam Ferris – The Entertainer (Old Vic)
Ruth Wilson – Philistines (National Lyttelton)

Best Supporting Actor in a Play
David Haig – The Country Wife (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Lee Evans – The Dumb Waiter (Trafalgar Studios)
Mark Gatiss – All About My Mother (Old Vic)
Nigel Lindsay – Awake And Sing (Almeida)
Paul Ritter – The Hothouse (National Lyttelton)
Rory Kinnear – The Man Of Mode (National Olivier)

The FIRST MAGAZINE Best Actress in a Musical
Denise Van Outen – Rent Remixed (Duke of York’s)
Lara Pulver – Parade (Donmar Warehouse)
Leanne Jones – Hairspray (Shaftesbury)
Sheridan Smith – Little Shop Of Horrors (Duke of York’s & Ambassadors)
Summer Strallen – The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello)
Susan McFadden – Grease (Piccadilly)

The SEE TICKETS Best Actor in a Musical
Bertie Carvel – Parade (Donmar Warehouse)
Henry Goodman – Fiddler On The Roof (Savoy)
James Loye – The Lord Of The Rings (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)
Lee Mead – Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi)
Michael Ball – Hairspray (Shaftesbury)
Paul Keating – Little Shop Of Horrors (Duke of York’s & Ambassadors)

Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
Beverley Klein – Fiddler On The Roof (Savoy)
Elaine Paige – The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello)
Laura Michelle Kelly – The Lord Of The Rings (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)
Nicole Faraday – Bad Girls (Garrick)
Preeya Kalidas – Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi)
Tracie Bennett – Hairspray (Shaftesbury)

Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
Ben James-Ellis – Hairspray (Shaftesbury)
Dean Collinson – Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi)
Mel Smith – Hairspray (Shaftesbury)
Michael Jibson – Take Flight (Menier Chocolate Factory)
Michael Therriault – The Lord Of The Rings (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)
Shaun Escoffery – Parade (Donmar Warehouse)

Best Solo Performance
Fiona Shaw – Happy Days (National Lyttelton)
Lucy Briers – Some Kind Of Bliss (Trafalgar Studio 2)
Patrick Kielty – A Night In November (Trafalgar Studio 1)
Ralf Little – Stacy (Trafalgar Studio 2)
Richard Schiff – Underneath The Lintel (Duchess)
Robert Bathurst – Alex (Arts)

Best Ensemble Performance
Betrayal (Donmar Warehouse)
Dealer’s Choice (Menier Chocolate Factory)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Apollo)
Philistines (National Lyttelton)
The Taming Of The Shrew & Twelfth Night (Old Vic)
War Horse (National Olivier)

Best Takeover in a Role
Dianne Pilkington – Wicked (Apollo Victoria)
Kelly Osbourne – Chicago (Cambridge)
Kerry Ellis – Wicked (Apollo Victoria)
Leila Benn Harris & Robyn North – The Phantom Of The Opera (Her Majesty’s)
Peter Davison – Monty Python’s Spamalot (Palace)
Ramin Karimloo – The Phantom Of The Opera (Her Majesty’s)

The NICK HERN BOOKS Best New Play
A Disappearing Number by Complicite (Barbican)
All About My Mother by Samuel Adamson (Old Vic)
Joe Guy by Roy Williams (Soho)
Landscape With Weapon by Joe Penhall (National Cottesloe)
That Face by Polly Stenham (Royal Court Upstairs)
War Horse by Nick Stafford (National Olivier)

Best New Comedy
Elling by Simon Bent (Bush & Trafalgar Studio 1)
Moonlight And Magnolias by Ron Hutchinson (Tricycle)
Rafta Rafta by Ayub Khan-Din (National Lyttelton)
The Pain And The Itch by Bruce Norris (Royal Court Downstairs)
Vernon God Little by Tanya Ronder – (Young Vic)
Whipping It Up by Steve Thompson (Bush & Ambassadors)

The SUPERBREAK Best New Musical
Bad Girls The Musical by Kath Gotts, Maureen Chadwick & Ann McManus (Garrick)
Hairspray by Marc Shaiman, Scott Whitman, Mark O’Donnell & Thomas Meehan (Shaftesbury)
Parade by Jason Robert Brown & Alfred Uhry (Donmar Warehouse)
Take Flight by Richard Maltby Jr, David Shire & John Weidman (Menier Chocolate Factory)
The Drowsy Chaperone by Greg Morrison, Lisa Lambert, Don McKellar & Bob Martin (Novello)
The Lord Of The Rings by AR Rahman, Varttina, Christopher Nightingale, Shaun McKenna & Matthew Warchus (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)

Best Play Revival
Boeing-Boeing (Comedy)
Equus (Gielgud)
Saint Joan (National Olivier)
The Country Wife (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
The Dumb Waiter (Trafalgar Studio 1)
In Celebration (Duke of York’s)

The TICKETMASTER Best Musical Revival
Buddy (Duchess)
Fiddler On The Roof (Savoy)
Grease (Piccadilly)
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi)
Little Shop Of Horrors (Duke of York’s & Ambassadors)
Rent Remixed (Duke of York’s)

Best Shakespearean Production
Antony And Cleopatra (Novello)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Roundhouse)
King Lear (New London)
Macbeth (Gielgud)
Much Ado About Nothing (Novello)
The Merchant Of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe)

Best Director
Jack O’Brien – Hairspray (Shaftesbury)
Marianne Elliott – Much Ado About Nothing (Novello), Saint Joan & War Horse (National Olivier)
Matthew Warchus – Boeing-Boeing (Comedy), The Lord Of The Rings (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)
Roger Michell – Landscape With Weapon (National Cottesloe), Betrayal (Donmar Warehouse)
Rupert Goold – The Glass Menagerie (Apollo), The Tempest (Novello), Rough Crossings (Lyric Hammersmith), Macbeth (Gielgud)
Thea Sharrock – Equus (Gielgud), The Emperor Jones (National Olivier), Cloud Nine (Almeida)

Best Set Designer
Anthony Ward – Glengarry Glen Ross (Apollo), Macbeth (Gielgud), The Arsonists & Rhinoceros (Royal Court Downstairs)
Bunny Christie – Philistines & Women Of Troy (National Lyttelton)
David Rockwell – Hairspray (Shaftesbury)
Hildegard Bechtler – All About My Mother (Old Vic), The Hothouse (National Lyttelton)
Rae Smith & the Handspring Puppet Company – War Horse (National Olivier)
Rob Howell – The Lord Of The Rings (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)

Best Choreographer
Bill Deamer – Lady Be Good (Open Air)
Casey Nicholaw – The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello)
Jerry Mitchell – Hairspray (Shaftesbury)
Sammy Dallas Bayes (reproducing Jerome Robbins) & Kate Flatt – Fiddler On The Roof (Savoy)
Peter Darling – The Lord Of The Rings (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)
Rob Ashford – Parade (Donmar Warehouse)

The DEWYNTERS London Newcomer of the Year
Arthur Darvill – Terre Haute (Trafalgar Studio 2), Swimming With Sharks (Vaudeville)
Billie Piper – Treats (Garrick)
Colin Morgan – Vernon God Little (Young Vic) & All About My Mother (Old Vic)
Daniel Radcliffe – Equus (Gielgud)
Leanne Jones – Hairspray (Shaftesbury)
Orlando Bloom – In Celebration (Duke of York’s)

Best Off-West End Production
A Christmas Carol & The Magic Flute (Young Vic)
Dealer’s Choice (Menier Chocolate Factory)
I Love You Because (Landor)
tHe dYsFUnCKshOnalZ! (Bush)
The Masque Of The Red Death (BAC)
Vernon God Little –(Young Vic)

Best Regional Production
Angels In America (on tour)
Henry V (Royal Exchange, Manchester)
Never Forget (on tour)
Pygmalion (Theatre Royal Bath & on tour)
Sunshine On Leith (Dundee Rep)
The Big Secret Live: I Am Shakespeare (Chichester Festival & on tour)

The AKA Theatre Event of the Year
Daniel Radcliffe’s steamy publicity shots for Equus
Launch of the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company & its first season under Jonathan Kent
Nicholas Hytner’s “dead white males” comment about critics
Punchdrunk’s takeover of BAC for The Masque Of The Red Death
Reopening of the Royal Festival Hall
Reality TV head-to-head between Any Dream Will Do & Grease Is The Word

Honourable mentions:
The success of the Royal Court’s Young Writers’ Programme
Will Keen’s extraordinary performances in two roles for which he was not originally cast – Kiss Of The Spider Woman (Donmar Warehouse) and The Arsonists (Royal Court)
Michael Ball’s transformation as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray

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