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25th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards Winners

Updated: Apr 1


The annual WhatsOnStage Awards happened last night at The London Palladium. The event saw many winners crowned across a range of categories, alongside exclusive live performances and a 24-piece orchestra.


Take a look at the full list of winners below!


Best Performer in a Musical


Best Performer in a Play

  • Emma D’Arcy, The Other Place

  • Tom Holland, Romeo and Juliet

  • Cush Jumbo, Macbeth

  • Anne Odeke, Princess Essex

  • Michael Sheen, Nye

  • David Tennant, Macbeth


Best Supporting Performer in a Musical


Best Supporting Performer in a Play

  • Freema Agyeman, Romeo and Juliet

  • Romola Garai, Giant

  • Julie Hesmondhalgh, Punch

  • Teddy Hinde, The History Boys

  • Atsuki Mashiko, Spirited Away

  • Sharon Small, Nye


Best New Musical


Best New Play

  • Giant, Mark Rosenblatt

  • Kyoto, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson

  • Princess Essex, Anne Odeke

  • Punch, James Graham

  • Slave Play, Jeremy O’Harris

  • Spirited Away, adapted by John Caird and co-adapted by Maoko Imai


Best Musical Revival

  • Dear Evan Hansen, Nottingham Playhouse and on tour

  • Hadestown, Lyric Theatre

  • Hello, Dolly!, The London Palladium

  • Kiss Me, Kate, Barbican Theatre

  • Oliver!, Chichester Festival Theatre

  • Starlight Express, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre


Best Play Revival

  • A Raisin in the Sun, UK tour

  • The Crucible, Crucible Theatre

  • Macbeth, Donmar Warehouse and Harold Pinter Theatre

  • Oedipus, Wyndham’s Theatre

  • Romeo and Juliet, Duke of York’s Theatre

  • Waiting for Godot, Theatre Royal Haymarket


Best West End Show

Best Takeover Performance


Best Professional Debut Performance

 

Best Regional Production

  • 42 Balloons, The Lowry, Salford

  • The Artist, Theatre Royal Plymouth

  • Becoming Nancy, Birmingham Repertory Theatre

  • Brassed Off, Theatre by the Lake, Stephen Joseph Theatre and Octagon Theatre Bolton

  • Dear Evan Hansen, Nottingham Playhouse and UK tour

  • Oliver!, Chichester Festival Theatre


Best Off-West End Production

  • Brace Brace, Royal Court

  • Dear Young Monster, Bristol Old Vic

  • Diary of a Gay Disaster, Underbelly Cowgate and Arcola Theatre

  • Kenrex, Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, Sheffield

  • Mulatto Boy, Omnibus Theatre

  • Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Barn Theatre, Cirencester


Best Concert Event

  • Gypsy the Musical in Concert, Hope Mill Theatre at Opera House, Manchester

  • I Am Harvey Milk, Cadogan Hall

  • Pippin – 50th Anniversary Concert, Theatre Royal Drury Lane

  • Something Rotten! – In Concert, Theatre Royal Drury Lane

  • Sondheim on Sondheim, Alexandra Palace Theatre

  • Spring Awakening: 15th Anniversary Concert, Victoria Palace Theatre


Best Direction

  • Eline Arbo, The Years

  • Robert Icke, Oedipus

  • Anthony Lau, The Crucible

  • James Macdonald, Waiting for Godot

  • Drew McOnie, The Artist

  • Emma Rice, The Buddha of Suburbia


Best Musical Direction/ Supervision

  • Mark Aspinall and Dan Turek, Fiddler on the Roof

  • Niraj Chag and Simon Baker, The Buddha of Suburbia

  • Darren Clark and Mark Aspinall, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  • Alasdair Macrae, Macbeth

  • Matthew Malone, Brassed Off

  • Liam Robinson and Tarek Merchant, Hadestown


Best Casting Direction

  • Amy Ball, The Years

  • Harry Blumenau and Sarah-Jane Price, Why Am I So Single?

  • Stuart Burt, Fiddler on the Roof

  • Alastair Coomer and Chloe Blake, Till the Stars Come Down

  • Anna Cooper, Macbeth

  • Lotte Hines, A Raisin in the Sun


Best Choreography

  • Matthew Bourne, Oliver!

  • Julia Cheng, Fiddler on the Roof

  • Drew McOnie, The Artist

  • Rujuta Vaidya, Bhangra Nation

  • Anthony Van Laast, Kiss Me, Kate

  • Christopher Wheeldon, MJ the Musical


Best Costume Design

  • Sachiko Nakahara, Spirited Away

  • Lez Brotherston, Oliver!

  • Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • Tom Scutt, Fiddler on the Roof

  • Gabriella Slade, Starlight Express

  • Rae Smith, Hello, Dolly!


Best Lighting Design

  • Paule Constable and Ben Jacobs, Oliver!

  • Howard Hudson, Starlight Express

  • Jessica Hung Han Yun, Minority Report

  • Tim Lutkin, Coriolanus

  • Bruno Poet, Waiting for Godot

  • Zoe Spurr, The Artist


Best Set Design

  • Jon Bausor with puppetry by Toby Olié, Spirited Away

  • Miriam Buether, Kyoto

  • Es Devlin, Coriolanus

  • Tim Hatley, Starlight Express

  • Kenneth MacLeod, Maggie and Me

  • Tom Scutt, Fiddler on the Roof


Best Sound Design

  • Paul Arditti, Brace Brace

  • Susan Bear, Maggie and Me

  • Nicola T Chang, Minority Report

  • Gareth Fry, Macbeth

  • Gareth Fry, Viola’s Room

  • Gareth Owen, Starlight Express


Best Video Design

  • David Bergman, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • Grant Gee and Ellie Thompson, Bluets

  • Andrzej Goulding, Starlight Express

  • Tal Rosner, Minority Report

  • Ash J Woodward, The Artist

  • Ash J Woodward, Fangirls


Best Wigs, Hair and Make Up Design

  • Campbell Young Associates, The Devil Wears Prada

  • Jackie Saundercock and Campbell Young Associates, Starlight Express

  • Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • Betty Marini, The Cabinet Minister

  • Hiroaki Miyauchi, Spirited Away

  • Georgia Nosal, The Artist

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