WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN THE NINTH ANNUAL

  • Donmar Warehouse continues West End domination with five trophies
  • Broadway import Jersey Boys is four-time victor, The Four Seasons’ Bob Gaudio collects for Best New Musical
  • David Tennant’s RSC Hamlet, La Cage aux Folles & 50th anniversary West Side Story nab two awards apiece
  • Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Izzard, Ray Davies, Neil LaBute, Sophie Thompson, Tom Hiddleston & Tracie Bennett amongst top winners
  • Record-Breaking Turnout: Over 35,000 Voters
The SPOTLIGHT Best Actress in a Play
Katy Stephens – The Histories, RSC at the Roundhouse
20.3%
 
 
Deanna Dunagan – August: Osage County at the NT Lyttelton
15.6%
Lesley Sharp – Harper Regan at NT Cottesloe
17.1%
Lindsay Duncan – That Face at the Duke of York’s
18.3%
Margaret Tyzack – The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse
9.2%
Penelope Wilton – The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse
19.5%
   
The SPOTLIGHT Best Actor in a Play
Kenneth Branagh – Ivanov, Donmar West End at Wyndham’s

26.4%

   
Adam Godley – Rain Man at the Apollo

18.1%

Chiwetel Ejiofor – Othello at the Donmar Warehouse

16.5%

Eddie Redmayne – Now or Later at the Royal Court Downstairs

6.9%

Ian McDiarmid – Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Gielgud

9.2%

Kevin Spacey & Jeff Goldblum – Speed the Plow at the Old Vic

22.9%

   
Best Supporting Actress in a Play
Sophie Thompson – The Female of the Speciesat the Vaudeville

24.2%

 
 
Barbara Jefford – Pygmalion at the Old Vic

17.8%

Denise Gough – Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Gielgud

15.6%

Michelle Terry – The Man Who Had All the Luck at the Donmar Warehouse

12.9%

Phoebe Nicholls – The Vortex at the Apollo & Waste at the Almeida

15.8%

Susan Engel – Her Naked Skin at the NT Olivier

13.7%

   
Best Supporting Actor in a Play
Tom Hiddleston – Othello at the Donmar Warehouse & Ivanov, Donmar West End at Wyndham’s

24.1%

   
Douglas Henshall – The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida

18.3%

Kevin R McNally – Ivanov, Donmar West End at Wyndham’s

23.7%

Malcolm Sinclair – Rosmersholm at the Almeida

10.9%

Paul Ready – Major Barbara at the NT Olivier

11.4%

Pip Carter – Gethsemane at the NT Cottesloe

11.7%

   
The VIAGOGO Best Actress in a Musical
Sofia Escobar – West Side Story at Sadler’s Wells

35.8%

   
Connie Fisher – They’re Playing Our Song at the Menier Chocolate Factory

24.9%

Elena Roger – Piaf at the Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville

16.3%

Leila Benn Harris – Imagine This at the New London

5.6%

Lisa O’Hare – Gigi at the Open Air

4.6%

Ruthie Henshall – Marguerite at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

12.8%

   
The See Tickets Best Actor in a Musical
Ryan Molloy – Jersey Boys at the Prince Edward

33.7%

   
Darius Danesh – Gone With the Wind at the New London

14.3%

Douglas Hodge – La Cage aux Folles at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Playhouse

23.8%

Julian Ovenden – Marguerite at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

8.5%

Matt Rawle – Zorro at the Garrick

15.6%

Rolan Bell – The Harder They Come at the Barbican & Playhouse

4.2%

   
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
Tracie Bennett – La Cage aux Folles at the Playhouse

24.1%

   
Lesli Margherita – Zorro at the Garrick

20.7%

Linda Thorson – Gigi at the Open Air

11.5%

Lorraine Bruce – Piaf at the Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville

15.3%

Natasha Yvette Williams – Gone With the Wind at New London

13%

Sophia Ragavelas – Never Forget at the Savoy

15.4%

   
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
Stephen Ashfield – Jersey Boys at the Prince Edward

35%

   
Alexander Hanson – Marguerite at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

10.1%

Jason Pennycooke – La Cage aux Folles at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Playhouse

16.2%

Luke Evans – Piaf at the Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville

13.8%

Michael Matus – Imagine This at the New London

8.9%

Nick Cavaliere – Zorro at the Garrick

15.9%

   
Best Solo Performance
Eddie Izzard – Stripped at the Lyric

28.7%

   
David Bradley – The Quiz at Trafalgar Studios

7.7%

Derren Brown – Derren Brown Mindreader: An Evening of Wonders at the Garrick

17.2%

Maria Friedman – Maria Friedman: Re-Arranged at the Menier Chocolate Factory

19.4%

Nadine Marshall – Random at the Royal Court Downstairs

5.2%

Vanessa Redgrave – The Year of Magical Thinking at the NT Lyttelton

21.8%

   
The AMBASSADOR TICKETS Best Ensemble Performance
Into the Hoods – at the Novello

22.9%

   
August: Osage County – at the NT Lyttelton

12.5%

Black Watch – National Theatre of Scotland at the Barbican

13.5%

Brief Encounter – at The Cinema, Haymarket

21%

The Histories – RSC at the Roundhouse

17.6%

The Norman Conquests – at the Old Vic

12.5%

   
The MILK TWO SUGARS Best Takeover in a Role
Daniel Boys – Avenue Q at the Noël Coward

27.4%

   
Denis Lawson – La Cage aux Folles at the Playhouse

18.2%

Kelly Brook – Fat Pig at the Comedy

10.3%

Rachel Tucker – We Will Rock You at the Dominion

14.7%

Summer Strallen – The Sound of Music at the London Palladium

16.7%

Suzanne Shaw – Chicago at the Cambridge

12.7%

   
The Nick Hern Books Best New Play
Under the Blue Sky by David Eldridge – at the Duke of York’s

21.1%

   
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts – at the NT Lyttelton

20.7%

Black Watch by Gregory Burke – National Theatre of Scotland at the Barbican

20.3%

Now or Later by Christopher Shinn – at the Royal Court Downstairs

10.9%

That Face by Polly Stenham – at the Duke of York’s

15.1%

The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall – at the NT Cottesloe

12%

   
Best New Comedy
Fat Pig by Neil LaBute – at Trafalgar Studios & the Comedy

30.6%

   
God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza – at the Gielgud

16.7%

Lifecoach by Nick Reed – at Trafalgar Studios

10.4%

The Female of the Species by Joanna Murray-Smith – at the Vaudeville

22.4%

The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh – at the NT Cottesloe

10.6%

Well by Lisa Kron – at Trafalgar Studios

9.3%

   
The WALDORF HILTON Best New Musical
Jersey Boys by Bob Gaudio, Bob Crewe, Rick Elice & Marshall Brickman – at the Prince Edward

40.6%

   
Eurobeat by Craig Christie & Andrew Patterson – at the Novello

11.7%

Imagine This by Shuki Levy, David Goldsmith & Glenn Berenbeim – at the New London

8.7%

Marguerite by Michel Legrand, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg & Jonathan Kent – at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

11.2%

Never Forget by Guy Jones, Daniel Brocklehurst & Ed Curtis – at the Savoy

10.1%

Zorro by the Gipsy Kings, John Cameron, Stephen Clark & Helen Edmundson – at the Garrick

17.7%

   
The EMG Best Play Revival
Ivanov, Donmar West End – at Wyndham’s

25.9%

   
Six Characters in Search of an Author – at the Gielgud

16.5%

Speed the Plow – at the Old Vic

17.6%

The Chalk Garden – at the Donmar Warehouse

15.5%

The Norman Conquests – at the Old Vic

16.6%

Waste – at the Almeida

7.8%

   
The Ticketmaster Best Musical Revival
West Side Story – at Sadler’s Wells

33.1%

   
Candide – at the London Coliseum

4.5%

Gigi – at the Open Air

8.2%

La Cage aux Folles – at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Playhouse

29.7%

Piaf – at the Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville

17.2%

They’re Playing Our Song – at the Menier Chocolate Factory

7.3%

   
The Best Shakespearean Production
Othello – at the Donmar Warehouse

25.4%

   
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC at Shakespeare’s Globe

24.5%

Much Ado About Nothing – at the NT Olivier

14.2%

The Histories – RSC at the Roundhouse

17.7%

The Merry Wives of Windsor – at Shakespeare’s Globe

7.7%

Twelfth Night – at the Tricycle

10.4%

   
The SEATCHOICE.com Best Director
Michael Grandage – Othello & The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse & Ivanov, Donmar West End at Wyndham’s

21.9%

   
Emma Rice – Brief Encounter at The Cinema, Haymarket

21.4%

Matthew Warchus – The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic

11.5%

Michael Boyd – The Histories, RSC at the Roundhouse

18.8%

Rupert Goold – The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida, Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Gielgud &No Man’s Land at the Duke of York’s

13.9%

Samuel West – Dealer’s Choice at Trafalgar Studios & Waste at the Almeida

12.6%

   
Best Set Designer
Klara Zieglerova – Jersey Boys at the Prince Edward

32.9%

   
Eugene Lee – Imagine This at the New London

12.8%

Miriam Buether – In the Red & Brown Water at the Young Vic

6.4%

Neil Murray – Brief Encounter at The Cinema, Haymarket

19.8%

Rob Howell – The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic

12%

Tom Piper – The Histories, RSC at the Roundhouse

16.2%

   
The WHITE LIGHT Best Lighting Designer
Malcolm Rippeth – Brief Encounter at The Cinema, Haymarket & Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Gielgud

24.1%

   
Chahine Yavroyan – Relocated at the Royal Court Upstairs & Wig Out! at the Royal Court Downstairs

5.6%

Jean Kalman – The Year of Magical Thinking at the NT Lyttelton & In the Red & Brown Water at the Young Vic

8.2%

Mark Henderson – Under the Blue Sky at the Duke of York’s, Marguerite & The Sea at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

17.4%

Neil Austin – Piaf at the Donmar Warehouse & Vaudeville, No Man’s Land at the Duke of York’s & Oedipus at the NT Olivier

23%

Paule Constable – Othello & The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse & Ivanov, Donmar West End at Wyndham’s

21.7%

   
Best Choreographer
Lynne Page – La Cage aux Folles at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Playhouse

25.8%

   
Akram Khan – in-i at the NT Lyttelton

5.5%

Karen Bruce – Never Forget at the Savoy

13.3%

Kate Prince + ZooNation – Into the Hoods at the Novello

17%

Matthew Bourne – Dorian Gray at Sadler’s Wells

17.4%

Rafael Armago – Zorro at the Garrick

21%

   
The Dewynters London Newcomer of the Year
Josh Hartnett – Rain Man at the Apollo

29.4%

   
Ella Smith – Fat Pig at Trafalgar Studios & the Comedy

18.2%

George Sampson – Into the Hoods at the Novello

21.1%

Joseph Mawle – The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida

9%

Ray Davies – Come Dancing at Theatre Royal Stratford East

14.8%

Tarell Alvin McCraney – In the Red & Brown Water & The Brothers Size at the Young Vic & Wig Out! at the Royal Court Downstairs

7.6%

   
The MOBIUS Best Off-West End Production
Come Dancing – at Theatre Royal Stratford East

32.1%

   
An Enemy of the People – at the Arcola

11.1%

Piranha Heights – at Soho Theatre

10.8%

Plague Over England – at the Finborough

12.7%

The Vaclav Havel season – at the Orange Tree

9.6%

The White Devil – at the Menier Chocolate Factory

23.6%

   
The TARGET LIVE Best Regional Production
Hamlet – RSC at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

48%

   
Calendar Girls – at Chichester Festival Theatre & on tour

19.9%

On the Waterfront – at Nottingham Playhouse & the Edinburgh Fringe

7.2%

Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi – at the Liverpool Playhouse

7.1%

The Glass Menagerie – at the Royal Exchange, Manchester

7.1%

The Music Man – at Chichester Festival Theatre

10.6%

   
The AKA Theatre Event of the Year
David Tennant returning to the stage in Hamlet for the RSC

53.8%

   
The launch of the Donmar West End season at Wyndham’s

12.6%

La Clique’s London debut at the Hippodrome

7.8%

The in-the-round transformation of the Old Vic for The Norman Conquests

7.2%

The RSC’s complete staging of The Histories at the Roundhouse

8.8%

Widespread protests over arts funding cutbacks

9.9%

   

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