WHATSONSTAGE AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

**The SPOTLIGHT Best Actress in a Play** * Helen McCrory – The Late Middle Classes at the Donmar Warehouse * Jenny Jules – Ruined at the Almeida * Kim Cattrall – Private Lives at the Vaudeville * Nancy Carroll – After the Dance at the National, Lyttelton * Tracie Bennett – End of the Rainbow at Trafalgar Studios * **Zoë Wanamaker – All My Sons at the Apollo** **The SPOTLIGHT Best Actor in a Play** * Benedict Cumberbatch – After the Dance at the National, Lyttelton * **David Suchet – All My Sons at the Apollo** * Matthew Macfadyen – Private Lives at the Vaudeville * Rory Kinnear – Hamlet at the National, Olivier & Measure for Measure at the Almeida * Simon Russell Beale – Deathtrap at the Noel Coward & London Assurance at the National, Olivier * Toby Stephens – The Real Thing at the Old Vic **Best Supporting Actress in a Play** * Clare Higgins – Hamlet at the National, Olivier * Emma Cunniffe – The Crucible at the Open Air Theatre * Fiona Shaw – London Assurance at the National, Olivier * Harriet Walter – Women Beware Women at the National, Olivier * Jemima Rooper – All My Sons at the Apollo * **Tamsin Greig – The Little Dog Laughed at the Garrick** **Best Supporting Actor in a Play** * Adam James – Blood & Gifts at the National, Lyttelton * Adrian Scarborough – After the Dance at the National, Lyttelton * Eddie Redmayne – Red at the Donmar Warehouse * Lee Ross – Birdsong at the Comedy * **Nigel Lindsay – Broken Glass at the Tricycle** * Stephen Campbell Moore – All My Sons at the Apollo **The BABY GRAND Best Actress in a Musical** * Anna-Jane Casey – Bells Are Ringing at the Union * Elena Roger – Passion at the Donmar Warehouse * **Sheridan Smith – Legally Blonde at the Savoy** * Sierra Boggess – Love Never Dies at the Adelphi * Tamzin Outhwaite – Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Haymarket * Victoria Hamilton-Barritt – Flashdance at the Shaftesbury **The EMG Best Actor in a Musical** * Alex Gaumond – Legally Blonde at the Savoy * John Owen-Jones – Les Misérables 25th anniversary production at the Barbican * Mark Umbers – Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Haymarket * Michael Arden – Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory * **Ramin Karimloo – Love Never Dies at the Adelphi** * Sahr Ngaujah – Fela! at the National, Olivier **The NURSING STANDARD Best Supporting Actress in a Musical** * Hannah Waddingham – Into the Woods at the Open Air * **Jill Halfpenny – Legally Blonde at the Savoy** * Josefina Gabrielle – Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Haymarket * Rosalie Craig – Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory * Scarlett Strallen – Passion at the Donmar Warehouse * Summer Strallen – Love Never Dies at the Adelphi **Best Supporting Actor in a Musical** * Chris Ellis-Stanton – Legally Blonde at the Savoy * Dave Willetts – Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory * **Joseph Millson – Love Never Dies at the Adelphi** * Michael Xavier – Into the Woods at the Open Air * Paul J Medford – Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Haymarket * Tim Newman – All the Fun of the Fair at the Garrick **Best Ensemble Performance** * Hair – at the Gielgud * **Les Misérables 25th anniversary concert – the company of companies – at The O2** * Men Should Weep – at the National, Lyttelton * Posh – at the Royal Court Downstairs * When We Are Married – at the Garrick * Women, Power & Politics – at the Tricycle **The CAPITAL BREAKS Best Solo Performance** * Bob Golding – Morecambe at the Duchess * Caroline O’Connor – The Showgirl Within at the Garrick * Hugh Hughes – The Wonderful World of Hugh Hughes at the Barbican Pit * **Meera Syal – Shirley Valentine at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Trafalgar Studios 1** * Michael Gambon – Krapp’s Last Tape at the Duchess * Simon Callow – Shakespeare - The Man from Stratford, Dr Marigold & Mr Chops at Riverside Studios **The TAKE ONE MEDIA Best Takeover in a Role** * Ben Richards – Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at the Palace * Denise Van Outen – Legally Blonde at the Savoy * Griff Rhys-Jones – Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane * Kerry Ellis – Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane * Lee Mead – Wicked at the Apollo Victoria * **Rachel Tucker – Wicked at the Apollo Victoria** **The OBERON BOOKS Best New Play** * **Anne Boleyn by Howard Brenton – at Shakespeare’s Globe** * Blood & Gifts by JT Rogers – at the National, Lyttelton * Posh by Laura Wade – at the Royal Court Downstairs * Red by John Logan – at the Donmar Warehouse * Ruined by Lynn Nottage – at the Almeida * Tribes by Nina Raine – at the Royal Court Downstairs **Best New Comedy** * Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris – at the Royal Court Downstairs * Midsummer by David Greig – at Soho * Morecambe by Tim Whitnall – at the Duchess * Really Old, Like Forty-Five by Tamsin Oglesby – at the National, Cottesloe * The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane – at the Garrick * **Yes, Prime Minister by Antony Jay & Jonathan Lynn – at the Gielgud** **The SEE TICKETS Best New Musical** * All the Fun of the Fair by David Essex & Jon Conway – at the Garrick * Departure Lounge by Dougal Irvine – at Waterloo East * Fela! by Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Bill T Jones & Jim Lewis – at the National, Olivier * Flashdance by Robbie Roth, Robert Cary & Tom Hadley – at the Shaftesbury * **Legally Blonde by Nell Benjamin, Laurence O'Keefe & Heather Hach – at the Savoy** * Love Never Dies by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Glenn Slater & Ben Elton – at the Adelphi **The RADISSON EDWARDIAN Best Play Revival** * After the Dance – at the National, Lyttelton * All My Sons – at the Apollo * **Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – at the Novello** * Deathtrap – at the Noel Coward * Design for Living – at the Old Vic * The Real Thing – at the Old Vic **The AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP Best Musical Revival** * Bells Are Ringing – at the Union * Hair – at the Gielgud * Into the Woods – at the Open Air * **Les Misérables 25th anniversary production – at the Barbican** * Passion – at the Donmar Warehouse * Sweet Charity – at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Theatre Royal Haymarket **The SHAKESPEARE 4 KIDZ Best Shakespearean Production** * As You Like It – at the Old Vic * **Hamlet – at the National, Olivier** * Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 – at Shakespeare’s Globe * Macbeth – at Shakespeare’s Globe * Measure for Measure – at the Almeida * The Comedy of Errors – at the Open Air **The LAST SECOND TICKETS Best Director** * Howard Davies – All My Sons at the Apollo, The White Guard & Blood & Gifts at the National, Lyttelton * Nicholas Hytner – Hamlet & London Assurance at the National, Olivier * Roger Michell – Rope at the Almeida & Tribes at the Royal Court Downstairs * Rupert Goold – Earthquakes in London at the National, Cottesloe * Thea Sharrock – After the Dance at the National, Lyttelton * **Timothy Sheader – Into the Woods & The Crucible at the Open Air** **Best Set Designer** * Bunny Christie – Men Should Weep at the National, Lyttelton * **Joanna Scotcher – The Railway Children at Waterloo Station** * Miriam Buether – Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Downstairs & Earthquakes in London at the National, Cottesloe * Morgan Large – Flashdance at the Shaftesbury * Soutra Gilmour – Into the Woods at the Open Air * Stephen Brimson-Lewis – An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville **The WHITE LIGHT Best Lighting Designer** * **James Farncombe – Ghost Stories at the Lyric Hammersmith & Duke of York’s** * Neil Austin – The Prince of Homburg at the Donmar Warehouse & Women Beware Women at the National, Olivier * Paul Keogan – Novecento, Donmar at Trafalgar Studios 2 * Paule Constable – Blasted at the Lyric Hammersmith, Posh at the Royal Court Downstairs & Love Never Dies at the Adelphi * Peter Mumford – Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Downstairs * Rick Fisher – Tribes at the Royal Court Downstairs **Best Choreographer** * Arlene Phillips – Flashdance at the Shaftesbury * Bill T Jones – Fela! at the National, Olivier * Jason Gilkison – Burn the Floor at the Shaftesbury * **Jerry Mitchell – Legally Blonde at the Savoy** * Karole Armitage – Hair at the Gielgud * Stephen Mear – Shoes at Sadler’s Wells & Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Theatre Royal Haymarket **The DEWYNTERS London Newcomer of the Year** * Ali Bastian & Brian Fortuna – Burn the Floor at the Shaftesbury * Anya Reiss (playwright) – Spur of the Moment at the Royal Court Upstairs * Daniel Kaluuya – Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Downstairs * Jacob Casselden – Tribes at the Royal Court Downstairs * **Jonathan Groff – Deathtrap at the Noel Coward** * Robyn Addison – The Rivals at the Theatre Royal Haymarket **The LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE Best Off-West End Production** * A Number – at the Menier Chocolate Factory * Bells Are Ringing – at the Union * **La Bohème – at the Cock Tavern, Kilburn & Soho** * The Beauty Queen of Leenane – at the Young Vic * The Drowsy Chaperone – at Upstairs at the Gatehouse * The Wages of Thin – at the Old Red Lion **Best Regional Production** * Hamlet – at Sheffield Crucible * **Chess – on tour** * Antony & Cleopatra – at the Liverpool Playhouse * 42nd Street – at the Chichester Festival Theatre * Lend Me a Tenor – at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth * A Raisin in the Sun – at the Royal Exchange, Manchester **The EQUITY Best West End Show** * Jersey Boys – at the Prince Edward * Les Misérables – at the Queen’s * Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – at the Palace * The Phantom of the Opera – at Her Majesty’s * War Horse – at the New London * **Wicked – at the Apollo Victoria** **The AKA Theatre Event of the Year** * Jellyfish, the UK’s first recycled theatre, built on a playground in Southwark * Judi Dench returning to the role of Titania after 40 years for Sir Peter Hall in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Rose, Kingston * **Les Misérables’ 25th anniversary concert at The 02 & screened to cinemas worldwide** * The Donmar Warehouse’s “Sondheim at 80” concerts * The relaunch of the King’s Head as London’s first new opera house in 40 years * The transformation of the Eurostar terminal at Waterloo for The Railway Children **Special mentions** * The launch of the Young Vic’s 40th anniversary season * You Me Bum Bum Train at the Barbican