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Live Tweeting: Evening Standard Awards 2012

Live Tweeting: Evening Standard Awards 2012

Date: 25 November 2012

The 58th Evening Standard Awards are presented tonight (25 November 2012) at London's Savoy Hotel. The ceremony is this year hosted by James Corden, star of One Man, Two Guvnors and a former host of our own Whatsonstage.com Awards.

Among the names vying for honours are husband and wife Adrian Lester and Lolita Chakrabarti, who are both nominated for Red Velvet at the Tricycle (as Best Actor and Most Promising Playwright respectively). Lester and Chakrabarti also made the Standard's recent 1000 list of most influential people.

Elsewhere, Cate Blanchett is shortlisted for the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress for her role in Gross und Klein (Big and Small) at the Barbican, while the Best Play category includes young writers Nick Payne (29) for Constellations and James Graham (30) for This House.

And the Young Vic's acclaimed revival of A Doll’s House is up for three awards - Best Director, the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress and Best Design (see shortlists below).

Do you agree with the shortlists? Suggest your own nominations for the 2013 Whatsonstage.com Awards - the only major theatre prize to be decided entirely by the theatregoing public - at awards.whatsonstage.com


The full shortlists for the 58th Evening Standard Awards in association with Burberry:

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)
  • Best Director

  • Carrie Cracknell for A Doll’s House (Young Vic)
  • Nicholas Hytner for Timon of Athens (National’s Olivier)
  • James Macdonald for Love and Information (Royal Court Downstairs)
  • Ian Rickson for Hamlet (Young Vic)
  • Best Actor

  • Simon Russell Beale, Collaborators (National’s Cottesloe)
  • 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 Theatre’s Cottesloe)
  • Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress

  • 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)
  • Hattie Morahan, A Doll’s House (Young Vic)
  • Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

  • Singin’ In the Rain (Chichester Festival and Palace Theatre)
  • Swallows and Amazons (A Bristol Old Vic production presented by the National Theatre in association with The Children’s Touring Partnership at the Vaudeville Theatre)
  • Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival and Adelphi)
  • Best Design

  • Miriam Buether, Wild Swans (A Young Vic/American Repertory Theatre/Actors Touring Company co-production)
  • Soutra Gilmour, Inadmissible Evidence (Donmar Warehouse) and Antigone (National’s Olivier)
  • Ian MacNeil, A Doll’s House (Young Vic)
  • Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

  • Lolita Chakrabarti, Red Velvet (Tricycle)
  • John Hodge, Collaborators (National’s Cottesloe)
  • Tom Wells, The Kitchen Sink (Bush)
  • The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer

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