The 2012 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Best Play

WINNER Constellations by Nick Payne (Royal Court Upstairs)
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill
(Royal Court Downstairs)
This House by James Graham (National’s Cottesloe)

Best Director

WINNER Nicholas Hytner for Timon of Athens (National’s Olivier)
Carrie Cracknell
for A Doll’s House (Young Vic)
James Macdonald for Love and Information (Royal Court Downstairs)
Ian Rickson for Hamlet (Young Vic)

Best Actor

WINNER Simon Russell Beale, Collaborators (National’s Cottesloe and Olivier)
Charles Edwards
, The King's Speech (Wyndham’s) and This House (National’s Cottesloe)
Adrian Lester, Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre)
Luke Treadaway, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (National Cottesloe)

Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress

WINNER Hattie Morahan, A Doll’s House (Young Vic)
Eileen Atkins, All That Fall (Jermyn Street)
Cate Blanchett, Big and Small (Sydney Theatre Company for Barbican)
Laurie Metcalf, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Apollo)

Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

WINNER Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival and Adelphi)
Singin’ In the Rain (Chichester Festival and Palace Theatre)
Swallows and Amazons (A Bristol Old Vic production, presented by the National Theatre and The Children’s Touring Partnership at the Vaudeville Theatre)

Best Design

WINNER Soutra Gilmour, Inadmissible Evidence (Donmar Warehouse) and Antigone (National’s Olivier)
Miriam Buether, Wild Swans (A Young Vic/American Repertory Theatre/Actors Touring Company co-production)
Ian MacNeil, A Doll’s House (Young Vic)

Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

WINNER Lolita Chakrabarti, Red Velvet (Tricycle)
John Hodge, Collaborators (National’s Cottesloe)
Tom Wells, The Ktchen Sink (Bush)


Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer

WINNER Matthew Tennyson, Making Noise Quietly (Donmar Warehouse)
Denise Gough, Our New Girl (Bush) and Desire Under the Elms (Lyric Hammersmith)
Abby Rakic-Platt, Vera Vera Vera (Royal Court Upstairs and Theatre Local Peckham)

Beyond Theatre Award

Danny Boyle and his creative team, for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics

Lebedev Special Award

Nicholas Hytner, for his dynamic directorship of the National Theatre

Editor’s Award

David Hare, for his contribution to theatre

Burberry Award for Emerging Director

Simon Godwin

Moscow Art Theatre’s Golden Seagull Award

Judi Dench, for her contribution to world theatre

Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , ,