The Stage

Keira Knightley and Gemma Arterton nominated in Evening Standard Theatre Awards’ long list

Published Monday 25 October 2010 at 15:51 by Natalie Woolman

Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch are among the nominees on the long list for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2010.

Both have been nominated for the Best Actor gong for their performances in the Royal Court’s Clybourne Park and the National Theatre’s After the Dance respectively.

Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton, Sheridan Smith and Keira Knightley are among the nominees for the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress.

Rupert Goold has been nominated for the award for Best Director for his work on Romeo and Juliet for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Earthquakes in London at the National. He is up against Royal and Derngate Theatres’ artistic director Laurie Sansom, Howard Davies and NT director Nicholas Hytner among others.

The shortlist will be published on November 21 and the winners named at a ceremony on November 28.

The longlist in full:

BEST ACTOR

Roger Allam - Henry IV Parts One and Two (Shakespeare’s Globe)

Bertie Carvel - Rope (Almeida)

Benedict Cumberbatch - After The Dance (National)

Martin Freeman - Clybourne Park (Royal Court)

Alex Jennings - The Habit Of Art (National)

Rory Kinnear - Measure For Measure (Almeida) and Hamlet (National)

Adrian Lester - Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Novello)

Alfred Molina - Red (Donmar Warehouse)

Jonathan Pryce - The Caretaker (Trafalgar Studios)

Simon Russell Beale - London Assurance (National) and Deathtrap (Noel Coward)

Adrian Scarborough - After The Dance (National)

David Suchet - All My Sons (Apollo)

THE NATASHA RICHARDSON AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS

Gemma Arterton - The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick)

Nancy Carroll - After The Dance (National)

Judi Dench - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rose, Kingston)

Tamsin Greig - The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick)

Jenny Jules - Ruined (Almeida)

Keira Knightley - The Misanthrope (Comedy)

Amanda Lawrence - Jiggery Pokery (BAC) and Henry VIII (Shakespeare’s Globe)

Rosaleen Linehan - The Beauty Queen Of Leenane (Young Vic)

Helen McCrory - The Late Middle Classes (Donmar Warehouse)

Lesley Manville - Six Degrees Of Separation (Old Vic)

Anna Maxwell Martin - Measure For Measure (Almeida)

Elena Roger - Passion (Donmar Warehouse)

Fiona Shaw - London Assurance (National)

Sheridan Smith - Legally Blonde The Musical (Savoy)

Sophie Thompson - Clybourne Park (Royal Court)

Zoe Wanamaker for All My Sons (Apollo)

BEST PLAY

Cock by Mike Bartlett (Royal Court)

The Big Fellah by Richard Bean (Lyric Hammersmith)

The Habit Of Art by Alan Bennett (National)

Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery (York Hall)

Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris (Royal Court)

Ruined by Lynn Nottage (Almeida)

Posh by Laura Wade (Royal Court)

Sucker Punch by Roy Williams (Royal Court)

THE NED SHERRIN AWARD FOR BEST MUSICAL

Hair (Gielgud)

The Human Comedy (A Young Vic/The Opera Group production co-produced with Watford Palace theatre)

Legally Blonde The Musical (Savoy)

Les Miserables (2010) (Barbican)

Passion (Donmar Warehouse)

Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory)

BEST DIRECTOR

Dominic Cooke - Clybourne Park (Royal Court)

Howard Davies - The White Guard (National) and All My Sons (Apollo)

Rupert Goold - Romeo And Juliet (RSC Stratford) and Earthquakes In London (National)

Michael Grandage - Red (Donmar Warehouse) and Danton’s Death (National)

Jeremy Herrin - Spur Of The Moment (Royal Court)

Joe Hill-Gibbins - The Beauty Queen Of Leenane (Young Vic)

Nicholas Hytner - The Habit Of Art (National), London Assurance (National) and Hamlet (National)

James MacDonald - Cock (Royal Court)

Roger Michell - Rope (Almeida)

Laurie Sansom - Beyond The Horizon and Spring Storm (both National)

Thea Sharrock - After The Dance (National)

Lyndsey Turner - Posh (Royal Court)

BEST DESIGN

Lez Brotherston - The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Vaudeville), Measure For Measure (Almeida), Women Beware Women (National) and Design For Living (Old Vic)

Miriam Buether - Sucker Punch (Royal Court) and Earthquakes In London (National)

Bunny Christie - The White Guard (National)

Rob Howell - Private Lives (Vaudeville) and Deathtrap (Noel Coward)

Vicki Mortimer - The Cat In The Hat (National)

Christopher Oram - Passion and Red (both Donmar Warehouse)

Mark Thompson - London Assurance (National)

THE CHARLES WINTOUR AWARD FOR MOST PROMISING PLAYWRIGHT

James Graham - The Whisky Taster (Bush) and The Man (Finborough)

DC Moore - The Empire (Royal Court)

Nick Payne - If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Bush) and Wanderlust (Royal Court)

Anya Reiss - Spur Of The Moment (Royal Court)

Atiha Sen Gupta - What Fatima Did (Hampstead)

Penelope Skinner - Eigengrau (Bush)

THE MILTON SHULMAN AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING NEWCOMER

You Me Bum Bum Train created by Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd (LEB Building, E2)

Melanie Chisholm for her performance in Blood Brothers (Phoenix)

Laura Dos Santos for her performance in Educating Rita (Menier Chocolate Factory)

Simon Godwin for his direction of Wanderlust (Royal Court)

Daniel Kaluuya for his performance in Sucker Punch (Royal Court)

Isabella Laughland for her performance in Wanderlust (Royal Court)

Henry Lloyd-Hughes for his performances in Rope (Almeida) and Posh (Royal Court)

James Mcardle for his performance in Spur Of The Moment (Royal Court)

James Musgrave for his performance in Wanderlust (Royal Court)

Nikesh Patel for his performance in Disconnect (Royal Court)

Shannon Tarbet for her performance in Spur Of The Moment (Royal Court)