2010 Evening Standard Theatre Awards Explained

The 2010 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 29 November 2010.^[1] The shortlist was revealed on 22 November 2010^[2] and the longlist on 25 October 2010.^[3]

Winners, shortlist and longlist

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Best Play

• Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris (Royal Court)
• Cock by Mike Bartlett (Royal Court)
• Sucker Punch by Roy Williams (Royal Court)

Longlisted

• The Big Fellah by Richard Bean (Lyric Hammersmith)
• The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett (National's Lyttelton)
• Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery (York Hall)
• Ruined by Lynn Nottage (Almeida)
• Posh by Laura Wade (Royal Court)

Best Director

• Howard Davies for The White Guard (National's Lyttelton) & All My Sons (Apollo)
• Nicholas Hytner for The Habit of Art (National's Lyttelton) & London Assurance (National's Olivier) & Hamlet (National's Olivier)
• Laurie Sansom for Beyond the Horizon and Spring Storm (National's Cottesloe)
• Thea Sharrock for After the Dance (National's Lyttelton)

Longlisted

• Dominic Cooke for Clybourne Park (Royal Court)
• Rupert Goold for Romeo and Juliet (RSC Stratford) & Earthquakes in London (National's Cottesloe)
• Michael Grandage for Red (Donmar Warehouse) & Danton's Death (National's Olivier)
• Jeremy Herrin for Spur of the Moment (Royal Court)
• Joe Hill-Gibbins for The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic)
• James MacDonald for Cock (Royal Court)
• Roger Michell for Rope (Almeida)
• Lyndsey Turner for Posh (Royal Court)

Best Actor

• Rory Kinnear, Measure for Measure (Almeida) & Hamlet (National's Olivier)
• Roger Allam, Henry IV Parts One and Two (Shakespeare's Globe)
• David Suchet, All My Sons (Apollo)

Longlisted

• Bertie Carvel, Rope (Almeida)
• Benedict Cumberbatch, After the Dance (National's Lyttelton)
• Martin Freeman, Clybourne Park (Royal Court)
• Alex Jennings, The Habit of Art (National's Lyttelton)
• 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's Olivier) & Deathtrap (Noël Coward)
• Adrian Scarborough, After the Dance (National's Lyttelton)

Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress

• Nancy Carroll, After the Dance (National's Lyttelton)
• Elena Roger, Passion (Donmar Warehouse)
• Sheridan Smith, Legally Blonde (Savoy)
• Sophie Thompson, Clybourne Park (Royal Court)

Longlisted

• Gemma Arterton, The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick)
• 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 Theatre)
• Amanda Lawrence, Jiggery Pokery (BAC) & 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)
• Fiona Shaw, London Assurance (National's Olivier)
• Zoë Wanamaker, All My Sons (Apollo)

Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

• Passion, Donmar Warehouse
• Legally Blonde, Savoy Theatre
• Les Misérables (2010), a Cameron Mackintosh production at Barbican Theatre

Longlisted

• Hair, Gielgud Theatre
• The Human Comedy, a Young Vic/The Opera Group production co-produced with Watford Palace Theatre
• Sweet Charity, Menier Chocolate Factory, transferred to Theatre Royal Haymarket

Best Design

• Miriam Buether for Sucker Punch (Royal Court) & Earthquakes in London (National's Cottesloe)
• Bunny Christie for The White Guard (National's Lyttelton)
• Christopher Oram for Passion (Donmar Warehouse) & Red (Donmar Warehouse)

Longlisted

• Lez Brotherston for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Vaudeville) & Measure for Measure (Almeida) & Women Beware Women (National's Olivier) & Design for Living (Old Vic)
• Rob Howell for Private Lives (Vaudeville) & Deathtrap (Noël Coward)
• Vicki Mortimer for The Cat in the Hat (National's Cottesloe; transferred to Young Vic)
• Mark Thompson for London Assurance (National's Olivier)

Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

• Anya Reiss for Spur of the Moment (Royal Court)
• DC Moore for The Empire (Royal Court)
• Nick Payne for If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet (Bush) & Wanderlust (Royal Court)

Longlisted

• James Graham for The Whisky Taster (Bush) & The Man (Finborough)
• Atiha Sen Gupta for What Fatima Did (Hampstead)
• Penelope Skinner for Eigengrau (Bush)

Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer

• You Me Bum Bum Train created by Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd (LEB Building, E2)
• Melanie C for her performance in Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre)
• Daniel Kaluuya for his performance in Sucker Punch (Royal Court)
• Isabella Laughland for her performance in Wanderlust (Royal Court)
• Shannon Tarbet for her performance in Spur of the Moment (Royal Court)

Longlisted

• Laura Dos Santos for her performance in Educating Rita (Menier Chocolate Factory, transferred to Trafalgar Studios)
• Simon Godwin for his direction of 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)

Editor's Award

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

Lebedev Special Award

• Sir Michael Gambon for his contribution to theatre

Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull

• Sir Peter Hall

Judges

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

Notes and References

1. https://www.standard.co.uk/arts/theatre/teenage-writer-leads-the-new-generation-of-winners-at-evening-standard-theatre-awards-6541498.html Awards announced
2. https://www.standard.co.uk/arts/theatre/evening-standard-theatre-awards-2010-shortlist-revealed-6538770.html Shortlist
3. https://www.standard.co.uk/arts/theatre/london-evening-standard-theatre-awards-2010-the-longlist-unveiled-6528363.html Longlist