The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2011

Presented on 20 November 2011 at the Savoy Hotel

Best Actor: Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller
for Frankenstein (Olivier)

Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress:
Sheridan Smith for Flare Path (Haymarket)

Best Play: The Heretic (Royal Court) and
One Man, Two Guvnors (Lyttelton), both by Richard Bean

Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical:
Matilda (Royal Shakespeare, Stratford; Cambridge)

Best Director: Mike Leigh for Grief (Cottesloe)

Best Design: Adam Cork for sound designs of
Anna Christie and King Lear (Donmar Warehouse)

Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer:
Kyle Soller for The Glass Menagerie and The Government Inspector
(both Young Vic) and The Faith Machine (Royal Court)

Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright:
Penelope Skinner for The Village Bike (Royal Court Upstairs)

Beyond Theatre Award: the Pet Shop Boys and Javier de Frutos
for The Most Incredible Thing (Sadler's Wells)

Lebedev Special Award:
Kristin Scott Thomas for her contribution to theatre

Editor’s Award:
Michael Grandage for making the Donmar Warehouse a star

Moscow Art Theatre’s Golden Seagull: Tom Stoppard
for his contribution to Russian theatre and the international stage