The Stage

Spacey and Turner vie for Evening Standard awards

Published Thursday 9 November 2006 at 13:00 by Nuala Calvi

Hollywood stars Kevin Spacey and Kathleen Turner have been shortlisted for this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards, alongside Michael Sheen, Rufus Sewell, Sinead Cusack, Bill Irwin and Frances O’Connor.

The performers are up for the Best Actor and Best Actress accolades at the 52nd annual awards ceremony, which takes place on November 27 at the Savoy.

Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’Roll, in which Sewell and Cusack star, is also up for best play, alongside Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer.

Frost/Nixon, in which Sheen plays television interviewer David Frost, has been nominated in four categories, including Best Play, Best Director and Best Design.

The judging panel for the awards includes theatre critics from the Evening Standard, The Times, The Observer, Mail on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph and Financial Times.

The full shortlist is as follows:

Best Play

Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan

Rock’n’Roll - Sir Tom Stoppard

The Seafarer - Conor McPherson

Best Actor

Bill Irwin - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Rufus Sewell - Rock ‘N’ Roll

Michael Sheen - Frost/Nixon

Kevin Spacey - A Moon for the Misbegotten

Best Actress

Sinead Cusack - Rock’n’Roll

Frances O’Connor - Tom and Viv

Kathleen Turner - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director

Marianne Elliott - Pillars of the Community

Michael Grandage - The Wild Duck & Frost/Nixon & Evita

Anthony Page - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Musical

Caroline, or Change

Evita

Spamalot

Sunday in the Park with George

Best Design

Timothy Bird (Projection design) and David Farley (Set and costume design) - Sunday in the Park with George

Christopher Oram - Evita & Frost/Nixon

Borkur Jonsson - Metamorphosis

The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer

Andrew Garfield - Beautiful Thing; Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship;

Chris New - Bent

Punchdrunk

Elena Roger - Evita