& Juliet dominates WhatsOnStage Award nominee announcements!
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The nominees for the 20th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards have been announced after audiences voted and had their say. Now the nominees have been decided, it is time to vote for your winner but who is up for an award? There are many big names nominated, **Tom Hiddleston**, **Claire Foy**, etc, and many shows have been honoured but it’s brand new musical which recently opened in the West End, [***& Juliet***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/musical/3998/juliet-tickets.aspx), that comes out on top in the musical categories; with 13 nominations. Read below to see all the nominations in the 25 different categories.
Best New Musical (sponsored by h Club London)
[***Waitress***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/musical/3309/waitress-tickets.aspx) ([**Adelphi Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/3/adelphi-theatre.aspx))
[***& Juliet***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/musical/3998/juliet-tickets.aspx) ([**Shaftesbury Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/74/shaftesbury-theatre.aspx)/**Opera House**, Manchester)
[***Come From Away***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/musical/3235/come-from-away-tickets.aspx) ([**Phoenix Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/2/phoenix-theatre.aspx))
[***Only Fools and Horses***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/musical/3233/only-fools-and-horses-tickets.aspx) ([**Theatre Royal Haymarket**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/24/theatre-royal-haymarket.aspx))
[***Dear Evan Hansen***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/musical/3106/dear-evan-hansen-tickets.aspx) ([**Noel Coward Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/108/noel-coward-theatre.aspx))
Best Actress in a Musical (sponsored by Café de Paris)
**Zizi Strallen** for [***Mary Poppins***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/musical/198/mary-poppins-tickets.aspx)
**Lucie Jones** for *Waitress*
**Miriam-Teak Lee** for *& Juliet*
**Katharine McPhee** for *Waitress*
**Tracie Bennett** for *Mame*
Best Actor in a Musical
**Oliver Tompsett** for *& Juliet*
**David Hunter** for *Waitress*
**Sam Tutty** for *Dear Evan Hansen*
**Jac Yarrow** for [***Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/musical/129/joseph-tickets.aspx)
**Charlie Stemp** for *Mary Poppins*
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical (sponsored by Newman Displays)
**Melanie La Barrie** for *& Juliet*
**Laura Baldwin** for *Waitress*
**Rachel Tucker** for *Come From Away*
**Marisha Wallace** for *Waitress*
**Cassidy Janson** for *& Juliet*
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (sponsored by The Umbrella Rooms)
**Jordan Luke Gage** for *& Juliet*
**Jack Loxton** for *Dear Evan Hansen*
**Jason Donovan** for *Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat*
**Joe Sugg** for *Waitress*
**Oscar Conlon-Murray** for *Only Fools and Horses the Musical*
Best Musical Revival (sponsored by Concord Theatricals)
[***Evita***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/musical/2757/evita-tickets.aspx) (**Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre**)
*Mame* (**Hope Mill Theatre**)
*Mary Poppins* ([**Prince Edward Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/10/prince-edward-theatre.aspx))
*Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat* ([**The London Palladium**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/4/london-palladium.aspx))
[***9 to 5 the Musical***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/musical/3321/9-to-5-the-musical-tickets.aspx) ([**Savoy Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/73/savoy-theatre.aspx))
Best New Play (sponsored by Ticketmaster)
*Appropriate* (**Donmar Warehouse**)
*Life of Pi* (**Sheffield Theatres**)
[***The Doctor***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/play/4279/the-doctor-tickets.aspx) (**Almeida Theatre**)
*The Son* (**Kiln Theatre**/[**Duke of York’s Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/30/duke-of-yorks-theatre.aspx))
*My Beautiful Laundrette* (UK Tour)
Best Off-West End Production (sponsored by Les Miserables)
*Fiver* (**Southwark Playhouse**)
*Preludes* (**Southwark Playhouse**)
*The View UpStairs* ([**Soho Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/307/soho-theatre.aspx))
*High Fidelity* (**The Turbine Theatre**)
*Falsettos* ([**The Other Palace**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/155/other-palace.aspx))
Best Regional Production (sponsored by MTI Europe)
*West Side Story* (**Royal Exchange**, Manchester)
*The Color Purple* (**Curve**, Leicester and Birmingham Hippodrome)
*My Beautiful Laundrette* (UK Tour)
*Mame* (**Hope Mill Theatre**)
Best Actress in a Play (sponsored by Tonic Theatre)
**Hayley Atwell** for *Rosmersholm*
**Zawe Ashton** for *Betrayal*
**Sharon D Clarke** for *Death of a Salesman*
**Claire Foy** for *Lungs*
**Juliet Stevenson** for *The Doctor*
Best Actor in a Play (sponsored by Edwardian Hotels)
**Matt Smith** for *Lungs*
**Wendell Pierce** for *Death of a Salesman*
**Tom Hiddleston** for *Betrayal*
**Andrew Scott** for *Present Laughter*
**Laurie Kynaston** for *The Son*
Best Supporting Actress in a Play
**Indira Varma** for *Present Laughter*
**Monica Dolan** for *All About Eve*
**Sophie Thompson** for *Present Laughter*
**Ria Zmitrowicz** for *The Doctor*
**Isabella Pappas** for *Appropriate*
Best Supporting Actor in a Play
**Hareet Deol** for *My Beautiful Laundrette*
**Alexandra Vlahos** for *Peter Pan*
**Charlie Cox** for *Betrayal*
**Giles Terera** for *Rosmersholm*
**Hammed Animashaun** for *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*
Best Play Revivals (sponsored by JHI Marketing)
*Present Laughter* ([**The Old Vic**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/60/old-vic-theatre.aspx))
*Lungs* (**The Old Vic**)
*Death of a Salesman* (**Young Vic**/[**Piccadilly Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/12/piccadilly-theatre.aspx))
*Betrayal* ([**Harold Pinter Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/26/harold-pinter-theatre.aspx))
*A Midsummer Night’s Dream* (**Bridge Theatre**)
Best Direction (sponsored by LOVEtheatre)
**Miranda Cromwell** and **Marianne Elliot** for *Death of a Salesman*
**Matthew Warchus** for *Lungs*
**Jamie Lloyd** for *Evita*
**Matthew Warchus** for *Present Laughter*
**Robert Icke** for *The Doctor*
Best Choreography
**Fabian Aloise** for *Evita*
**Nick Winston** for *Mame*
**Matthew Bourne** for *Romeo and Juliet*
**Jennifer Weber** for *& Juliet*
**Kelly Devine** for **Come From Away**
Best Costume Design
**Paloma Young** for *& Juliet*
**Lez Brotherston** for *Romeo and Juliet*
**Philip Witcomb** for *Mame*
**Katrina Lindsay** for *Small Island*
**Rob Howell** for *Present Laughter*
Best Video Design (sponsored by PRG)
**Jon Driscoll** for *Small Island*
**Will Duke** for *Grief is the Thing With Feathers*
**Andrzej Goulding** for *& Juliet*
**P J McEvoy** for *Falsettos*
**Ewan Jones Morris** for *A Very Expensive Poison*
Best Sound Design (sponsored by Stage Sound Services)
**Gareth Owen** for *& Juliet*
**Gareth Owen** for *Come From Away*
**Mick Potter** for *The Light in the Piazza*
**Nick Lidster** for *Evita*
**Ben Harrison** for *Mame*
Best Set Design (sponsored by Sine Digital)
**Soutra Gilmour** for *& Juliet*
**Rob Howell** for *Present Laughter*
**Rae Smith** for *The Night of the Iguana*
**Robert Jones** for *The Light in the Piazza*
**Soutra Gilmour** for *Evita*
Best Musical Direction
**John Rigby** for *Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat*
**Alex Parker** for *Mame*
**Kimberley Grigsby** for *The Light in the Piazza*
**Ian Eisendrath**, **Alan Berry** and team for *Come From Away*
**Alan Williams** for *Evita*
Best Lighting Design (sponsored by White Light)
**Jon Clark** for *Evita*
**Howard Hudson** for *& Juliet*
**Ben Cracknell** for *Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat*
**Jessica Hung Han Yun** for *Equus*
**Tim Lutkin** and **Hugh Vanstone** for *Present Laughter*
Best Graphic Design (sponsored by Hexagon Print)
*Captain Corelli’s Mandolin*
*Rosmersholm*
*Equus*
*Evita*
*& Juliet*
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You can now **vote for the winner of the 20th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards** winners. Whether you want to put all your eggs in one basket and see that *& Juliet* wins as many of those 13 nominations as possible or you're torn between your favourites, you have until 27 January 2020 to cast your votes. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 1 March 2020 at the [**Prince of Wales Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/6/prince-of-wales-theatre.aspx).