The Donmar Warehouse leads the way in the shortlist for this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards, picking up six nominations.
Meanwhile, the Royal Court and Young Vic both receive three nods apiece, with the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Scotland all picking up two.
The Donmar’s artistic director Michael Grandage is nominated for the Best Director award for his work on Ivanov, the Chalk Circle and Othello, while performers Kenneth Branagh, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margaret Tyzack, Penelope Wilton and Felicity Jones are all recognised for their performances in Donmar shows.
Evening Standard critic and one of the award judges Nicholas de Jongh said: “It’s been an astonishing year in the London theatre. We have ranged from the heights of Shakespeare’s Histories cycle performed in one epic sweep at the Roundhouse, to Kenneth Branagh leading Chekhov’s Ivanov and Michael Grandage’s year-long season in the West End.
“We have seen a West End cinema playing host to a hybrid film-theatre version of Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter, La Cage aux Folles rediscovered as the first gay-marriage musical and Enid Bagnold’s fifties traditional middle-class drama acclaimed as a classic of dark English comedy, while Kevin Spacey, Jeff Goldblum and Josh Hartnett have proved that Hollywood stars can dazzle in London as well.”
The winners will be revealed at a lunchtime award ceremony presented by Richard Wilson for around 250 invited guests in the Paul Hamlyn Hall at the Royal Opera House on Monday, November 24.
The nominations in full are:
Best Play:
Best Actor:
Best Actress:
The Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director:
The Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical:
Best Design:
The Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright:
The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer:
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