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London Theatre Awards

Award Recipients
Critics' Circle Awards

Critics' Circle Awards 2009

Best New Play:    Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth (Royal Court)
Peter Hepple Award Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith; Novello)
Best Director:    Rupert Goold for Enron (Minerva, Chichester; Royal Court)
Best Designer: Christopher Oram for Red (Donmar Warehouse)
Best Actor: Mark Rylance for Jerusalem
Best Actress: Rachel Weiszfor A Streetcar Named Desire (Donmar Warehouse)
Most Promising Playwright: Alia Bano for Shades (Royal Court Upstairs)
Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer: Tom Sturridge for Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith)
John & Wendy Trewin Award for Best   Shakespearean  Performance:  

Jude Law for Hamlet (Donmar West End)
Evening Standard Awards

Evening Standard Awards 2008

Best Play: THE PITMEN PAINTERS
Lee Hall
Best Actor:  CHIWETEL EJIOFOR
Othello
Best Actress: MARGARET TYZACK and
PENELOPE WILTON
The ChalkGarden
Best Musical:     STREET SCENE
Best Director: MICHAEL GRANDAGE
Othello / The ChalkGarden / Ivanov
Most Promising Playwright:  TARELL ALVIN McCRANEY
In the Red and Brown Water/
The Brothers Size
Best Designer: NEIL MURRAY
Brief Encounter
Outstanding  Newcomer: ELLA SMITH
Fat Pig
Special Award:  KEVIN SPACEY
Editor's Special Award:  ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
For their transfer of The Histories to the Roundhouse
Laurence Olivier Awards

Laurence Olivier Awards 2008

Best New Play:  BLACK WATCH
Gregory Burke
Best New Musical: JERSEY BOYS
Marshal Brickman / Bob Crewe / Rick Elice / Bob Gaudio
Best New Comedy: GOD OF CARNAGE
Yasmina Reza
trs Christopher Hampton
Best Revival: THE HISTORIES
Best Musical Revival  LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Harvey Fierstein / Jerry Herman from play by Jean Poiret
Best Entertainment: LA CLIQUE
Best Director: JOHN TIFFANY
Black Watch
Best Actor: DEREK JACOBI
Twelfth Night
Best Actress:  MARGARET TYZACK
The ChalkGarden
Best Company THE HISTORIES
Performance:
Best Supporting Performance: PATRICK STEWART
Hamlet
Best Actor in a  Musical: DOUGLAS HODGE
La Cage Aux Folles
Best Actress in a Musical: ELENA ROGER          
Piaf
Best Supporting Performance in a Musical: LESLI MARGHERITA
Zorro
Best Set Designer: TODD ROSENTHAL
August: OsageCounty
Best Costume Designer:  TOM PIPER / EMMA WILLIAMS
The Histories
Best Lighting  PAULE CONSTABLE
The ChalkGarden
Best Sound Design: GARETH FRY
Black Watch
Best Theatre Choreography:  STEVEN HOGGETT
Black Watch
Outstanding Achievement In an Affiliate Theatre:  THE PRIDE
Alexi Kaye Campbell
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs,
Royal Court
Special Award  ALAN AYCKBOURN
Theatregoers' Choice Awards - Whatsonstage

Theatregoers' Choice Awards - Whatsonstage 2008

Best Actress in a play: KATIE STEPHENS
The Histories
Best Actor in a play: KENNETH BRANAGH
Ivanov
Best Supporting Actress in a play: SOPHIE THOMPSON
The Female Of The Species
Best Supporting Actor in a play:  TOM HIDDLESTON
Othello
Best Actress in a musical:  SOFIA ESCOBAR
West Side Story
Best Actor in a musical:  RYAN MOLLOY
Jersey Boys
Best Supporting Actress in a musical: TRACIE BENNETT
La Cage Aux Folles
Best Supporting Actor in a musical:

STEPHEN ASHFIELD
Jersey Boys
Best Solo Performance: EDDIE IZZARD
Stripped
Best Ensemble Performance: INTO THE HOODS
Best Takeover in a role: DANIEL BOYS
Avenue Q
Best New Play:  UNDER THE BLUE SKY
by David Eldridge
Best New Comedy: FAT PIG
by Neil LaBute
Best New Musical: JERSEYBOYS
Marshall Brickman I Bob Crewe I Rick Elice / Bob Gaudio
Best Play Revival: IVANOV
Best Musical Revival: WEST SIDE STORY
Best Shakespearean Production: OTHELLO
Best Director:  MICHAEL GRANDAGE
Othello / The ChalkGarden / Ivanov
Best Set Designer: KLARA ZIEGLEROVA
Jersey Boys
Best Lighting  Designer: MALCOLM RIPPETH
Brief Encounter/ Six Characters In Search Of An Author
Best Choreographer: LYNNE PAGE
La Cage Aux Folles
London Newcomer of the Year: JOSH HARTNELL
Rain Man
Best Off-West End Production: COME DANCING
Theatre Royal, Stratford East
Best Regional  Production:  HAMLET
RSC Courtyard
Stratford-upon-Avon

Theatre Event of the Year:

 David Tennant's return to the stage as Hamlet
TMA Theatre Awards Beyond the West End

TMA Theatre Awards - Beyond the West End 2008

Best Play for Children and  Young People: LOOKING FOR JJ
Adapted from Anne Cassidy's novel by Marcus Romer
Pilot/York TR/Unicorn
Best Touring  Production:  BLACK WATCH
National Theatre of Scotland
Best Set Designer: MIKE BRITTON
The Lady From The Sea Birmingham Rep
Best Lighting:   MICK HUGHES
The Children's Hour
Manchester, Royal Exchange
Best Performance in a play:  

BRENDA BLETHYN
The Glass Menagerie
Manchester, Royal Exchange
Best Supporting Performance in a play:    KATE O'FLYNN
The Children's Hour
Manchester, Royal Exchange
Best Performance in a musical:   BRIAN CONLEY
The Music Man
Chichester Festival Theatre
Best Supporting Performance In a musical:  MARTIN BALL
Mary Poppins
Tour
Best Musical: ONCE UPON A TIME AT THE ADELPHI
Written and directed by Phil Willmott
Liverpool Playhouse
Best Director: MICHAEL BOYD
The Histories
RSC Courtyard, Stratford Upon Avon
Best New Play: CONTRACTIONS
Mike Bartlett
Royal Court Upstairs
Special Award for Individual Achievement: BILL KENWRIGHT
The Stage Award for Special Achievement: LATITUDE FESTIVAL
Playwriting Awards

Playwriting Awards 2008

Susan Smith Blackburn Prize: CHLOE MOSS, This Wide Night
Commendation: LUCINDA COXON, Happy Now?
George Devine Award: HASSAN ABDULRAZZAK, Baghdad Wedding
Alfred Fagon Award: PAULA B STANIC, What's Lost
Meyer-Whitworth Award: HASSAN ABDULRAZZAK, Baghdad Wedding
John Whiting Award: BRYONY LAVERY, Stockholm
Pearson Playwrights' Scheme Catherine Johnson Award for Best Play: MATT CHARMAN, The Observer
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