What’s On Stage 2011 Awards

It’s award season and yet another occasion for worthies to get their just deserts: the 2011 What’s On Stage Awards. There’ll be no insider dealing, bribes, Putin charm and definitely no Sepp Blatter: whatever the British public wants, they get.  Go vote here.

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
Zoe 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

Best Ensemble Performance

Hair – at the Gielgud
Les Miserables 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 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 & Gordon McIntyre – 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 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 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