2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards

The 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 25 November 2012.^[1] The shortlist was revealed on 12 November 2012^[2] and the longlist on 29 October 2012.^[3]

Winners, shortlist and longlist[]

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Best Play[]

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

Longlisted[]

• Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney (Royal Court Upstairs)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens (National's Cottesloe)
• by April De Angelis (Royal Court Downstairs and Duke of York)
• by Nicholas Wright (Hampstead)
• by Mike Bartlett (Royal Court Downstairs)
• Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil LaBute (Almeida)
• South Downs by David Hare (Chichester Minerva and the Harold Pinter)
• by Vivienne Franzmann (Royal Court Upstairs)

Best Director[]

• 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)

Longlisted[]

• Benedict Andrews for Three Sisters (Young Vic)
• Lucy Bailey for Uncle Vanya (The Print Room)
• Tom Cairns for Scenes from an Execution (National's Lyttelton)
• Marianne Elliott for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (National's Cottesloe)
• Polly Findlay for Antigone (National's Lyttelton)
• Sean Foley for The Ladykillers (Gielgud)
• Jeremy Herrin for This House (National's Cottesloe)
• Jonathan Kent for Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival and Adelphi)
• Roger Michell for (Hampstead)
• Lindsay Posner for Noises Off (Old Vic and Novello)
• Josie Rourke for The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse)
• Lyndsey Turner for Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Donmar Warehouse)

Best Actor[]

• 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)

Longlisted[]

• Rupert Everett, The Judas Kiss (Hampstead)
• Laurence Fox, Our Boys (Duchess)
• David Haig, The Madness of George III (Theatre Royal Bath and Apollo)
• Douglas Hodge, Inadmissible Evidence (Donmar Warehouse)
• Alex Jennings, Collaborators (National's Cottesloe and Olivier)
• Rory Kinnear, (National's Lyttelton)
• Simon Paisley Day, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare's Globe)
• Eddie Redmayne, Richard II (Donmar Warehouse)
• Adrian Scarborough, Hedda Gabler (Old Vic)
• Michael Sheen, Hamlet (Young Vic)
• Scott Shepherd, (Elevator Repair Service at Noël Coward)
• David Suchet, Long Day's Journey Into Night (Apollo)

Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress[]

• 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)

Longlisted[]

• Pippa Bennett-Warner, (Royal Court Upstairs)
• Eve Best, The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic)
• Anna Chancellor, (Hampstead)
• Anne-Marie Duff, Berenice (Donmar Warehouse)
• Mariah Gale, Three Sisters (Young Vic)
• Tamsin Greig, (Royal Court Downstairs and Duke of York's)
• Sally Hawkins, Constellations (Royal Court Upstairs)
• Martina Laird, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (National's Cottesloe)
• Helen McCrory, (National's Lyttelton)
• Joely Richardson, The Lady from the Sea (Kingston's Rose Theatre)
• Sheridan Smith, Hedda Gabler (Old Vic)
• Imelda Staunton, Sweeney Todd (Chichester and Adelphi)

Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical[]

• Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival and Adelphi)
• (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)

Longlisted[]

• Floyd Collins (Southwark Playhouse)
• Mack & Mabel (Southwark Playhouse)
• Top Hat (Aldwych)

Best Design[]

• 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)

Longlisted[]

• Hildegard Bechtler, Top Hat (Aldwych)
• Bunny Christie, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (National's Cottesloe)
• , Detroit (National's Cottesloe)
• Es Devlin, The Master and Margarita (Complicite at Barbican)
• , Richard II (Donmar Warehouse)
• Peter McKintosh, Noises Off (Old Vic)
• , (National's Lyttelton)
• , The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse)
• Michael Taylor, The Ladykillers (Gielgud)
• , (National's Lyttelton)

Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright[]

• Lolita Chakrabarti, Red Velvet (Tricycle)
• John Hodge, Collaborators (National's Cottesloe)
• , Kitchen Sink (Bush)

Longlisted[]

• Stephen Beresford, The Last of the Haussmans (National's Lyttelton)
• Ishy Din, Snookered (Bush Theatre and Oldham Coliseum Theatre co-production)
• Vickie Donoghue, Mudlarks (Bush)
• Nancy Harris, Our New Girl (Bush)
• Luke Norris, Goodbye to All That (Royal Court Upstairs)
• Nicholas Pierpan, You Can Still Make a Killing (Southwark Playhouse)
• Tim Price, Salt, Root and Roe (Trafalgar Studios)
• Hayley Squires, Vera Vera Vera (Royal Court Upstairs and Theatre Local Peckham)

Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer[]

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

Longlisted[]

• Jonathan Bailey, South Downs (Chichester Minerva and the Harold Pinter)
• David Fynn, She Stoops to Conquer (National's Olivier)
• Cush Jumbo, She Stoops to Conquer (National's Olivier)
• Joshua Williams, Shivered (Southwark Playhouse) and Love and Information (Royal Court Upstairs)
• , (Hackney Empire and Savoy)

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

Judges[]

• Henry Hitchings (London Evening Standard)
• Georgina Brown (Mail on Sunday)
• Susannah Clapp (The Observer)
• Libby Purves (The Times)
• Charles Spencer (The Daily Telegraph)
• Matt Wolf (The International Herald Tribune)
• Sarah Sands (London Evening Standard)
• Evgeny Lebedev (London Evening Standard)

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