The nominees for the 66th annual Evening Standard Theatre Awards have been announced this week.
This year, the Young Vic revival of Oklahoma! which is set to transfer to the West End next year, has picked up five nominations. Following closely behind is the much-lauded revival of Cabaret, with four nominations.
The awards will be the first to have taken place since 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic closing theatres for 18 months and will recognise many shows which have opened in London since the pandemic.
The winners will be revealed on 21 November, the day after a private ceremony.
The full List of nominees for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards are listed below:
Best Design:
Tom Scutt, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre)
Es Devlin, A Number (Old Vic) and The Crucible (National Theatre)
Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughan and Beatrice Minns, The Burnt City (One Cartridge Place)
Lael Jellinek and Grace Laubacher, Oklahoma! (Young Vic Theatre)
Tim Hatley, Back To The Future (Adelphi Theatre) and Life of Pi (Wyndham’s Theatre-with Finn Caldwell)
Promising Playwright
Tyrell Williams, Red Pitch (Bush Theatre)
Dipo Baruwa-Etti, an unfinished man (Yard Theatre)
Waleed Akhtar, The P Word (Bush Theatre)
Igor Memic, Old Bridge (Bush Theatre)
Bess Wohl, Camp Siegfried (Old Vic Theatre)
Best Director
Jamie Lloyd, The Seagull and Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Daniel Fish and Jordan Fein, Oklahoma! (Young Vic Theatre)
Lynette Linton, Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre)
Rebecca Frecknall, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre)
Katie Mitchell, little scratch (Hampstead Theatre)
Emerging Talent
Isobel McArthur, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) (Criterion Theatre)
Terique Jarrett, Daddy (Almeida Theatre)
Francis Lovehall, Red Pitch (Bush Theatre)
Lizzie Annis, The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s Theatre)
Daniel Raggett, Anna X (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Best Musical
Oklahoma! (Young Vic Theatre)
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre)
Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre)
Get Up, Stand Up! (Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue)
Spring Awakening (Almeida Theatre)
Best Musical Performance
Jessie Buckley, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre)
Arinzé Kene, Get Up, Stand Up! (Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue)
Sutton Foster, Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre)
Patrick Vaill, Oklahoma! (Young Vic Theatre)
Marisha Wallace, Oklahoma! (Young Vic Theatre)
Best Actor
Paapa Essiedu, A Number (Old Vic Theatre)
James McAvoy, Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Shubham Saraf, The Father and The Assassin (National Theatre)
Lennie James, A Number (Old Vic Theatre)
Giles Terera, Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre)
Best Actress
Jodie Comer, Prima Facie (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Samira Wiley, Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre)
Indira Varma, The Seagull (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo, Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre)
Sheila Atim, Constellations (Vaudeville Theatre)
Best Play
Best of Enemies by James Graham (Young Vic Theatre)
Indecent by Paula Vogel (Menier Chocolate Factory)
Red Pitch by Tyrell Williams (Bush Theatre)
The Father and The Assassin by Anupama Chandrasekhar (National Theatre)
The Mirror and The Light by Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles (Gielgud Theatre)
Words by Jo Elliott
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