The Theatrical Management Association (TMA) has announced the nominations for its Theatre Awards UK 2012 – formerly known as the TMAs.
The Theatre Awards UK are the only awards which specifically address
theatre throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as opposed to focusing on London and the
West End.
This year the Awards become the latest to follow Whatsonstage.com’s lead by including a first public vote, for the Best Touring Production category. The vote will be launched shortly by media partner The Stage.
Last year’s winners included Derek Jacobi (Best Performance in a Play for King Lear), Michael Sheen and Bill Mitchell (Best Director for The Passion) and Matilda‘s Bertie Carvel (Best Performance in a Musical). Peter Hall also received a lifetime achievement award.
This year’s nominees include Sweeney Todd co-stars Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, who will go head-to-head in the Best Performance in a Musical category. Jonathan Kent’s Chichester Festival Theatre production is also nominated for Best Musical, alongside Company and The Go-Between.
The Theatre Awards UK 2012 will be presented at a lunchtime ceremony on Sunday 28 October 2012 at the Guildhall.
The full list of nominees is:
Best New Play
LUNGS by Duncan MacMillan, a Sheffield Theatres and Paines Plough co-production at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield
SOUTH DOWNS by David Hare a Chichester Festival Theatre production
IN THE NEXT ROOM by Sarah Ruhl a Theatre Royal Bath production in the Ustinov Studio
Best Performance in a Play
Leanne Best for THE MATCH BOX a Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse production
Henry Goodman for THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI a Chichester Festival Theatre production
Tim Pigott-Smith for KING LEAR a West Yorkshire Playhouse production
Best Supporting Performance
Stephen Boxer for WRITTEN ON THE HEART by David Edgar a Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Claire-Louise Caldwell for BEAUTIFUL THING a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production
Aidan McArdle for DEMOCRACY a Sheffield Theatres production at the Crucible, Sheffield
Best Musical Production
COMPANY directed by Jonathan Munby a Sheffield Theatres production at the Crucible, Sheffield
THE GO-BETWEEN directed by Roger Haines a West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Derby LIVE! production at West Yorkshire Playhouse
SWEENEY TODD directed by Jonathan Kent a Chichester Festival Theatre production
Best Performance in a Musical
Michael Ball for SWEENEY TODD a Chichester Festival Theatre production
Daniel Evans for COMPANY a Sheffield Theatres production at the Crucible, Sheffield
Imelda Staunton for SWEENEY TODD a Chichester Festival Theatre production
Best Show for Children and Young People
ALICE IN WONDERLAND a New Vic Theatre production at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme
THE CURIOUS SCRAPBOOK OF JOSEPHINE BEAN by Shona Reppe on tour
SOMETHING VERY FAR AWAY a Unicorn Theatre production
Best Touring Production (voted by the public)
ANNE BOLEYN – English Touring Theatre’s presentation of the Shakespeare’s Globe production
THE KING AND I – Music and Lyrics with Curve Theatre, Leicester
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL – Graeae and New Wolsey Theatre production
SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS – The Children’s Touring Partnership in association with the National Theatre presenting Bristol Old Vic’s production
WE ARE THREE SISTERS – a Northern Broadside production
Best Director
Joe Harmston for THE FATHER by August Strindberg adapted by Laurie Slade, a Belgrade Theatre production
Dominic Hill for KRAPP’S LAST TAPE /FOOTFALLS by Samuel Beckett a Citizens Theatre production
Garry Hynes for DRUIDMURPHY – plays by Tom Murphy – produced by Druid Theatre Company, at Hampstead Theatre and Oxford Playhouse
Best Design
Gary McCann for THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, music and lyrics by Nicholas Lloyd Webber and James D. Reid, Lyric Theatre Belfast in association with Lamplighter Drama at the Lyric, Belfast
Amanda Stoodley for MANCHESTER LINES a Library Theatre Company production
Neil Warmington for FURTHER THAN THE FURTHEST THING a Dundee Rep Ensemble production at Dundee Rep
Achievement in Opera
Glyndebourne Festival Opera for its production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Oliver Mears for his inspiring leadership of Northern Ireland Opera
Christopher Alden’s production of NORMA for Opera North, a co-production with Theater Chemnitz, with Annemarie Kremer in the title role
Achievement in Dance
DV8 Physical Theatre for their courageous and innovative blend of dance and speech
Akram Khan for DESH – the epic scale of a very personal journey
Michael Hulls for his brilliant contribution to lighting for dance: in particular for this year’s DESH, TORSION and THE RODIN PROJECT
Theatre Employee/Manager of the Year
Ciaran McAuley – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Janthi Mills – Belgrade Theatre
Graham Sutherland – Citizens Theatre
Erica Whyman – Northern Stage
Achievement in Marketing
The Marlowe Theatre
Shakespeare’s Globe
York Theatre Royal
Most Welcoming Theatre
Chipping Norton Theatre
Curve (Leicester Theatre Trust Ltd.)
New Wolsey Theatre
Promotion of Diversity
Graeae Theatre Company
Oldham Coliseum Theatre
Theatre Royal Stratford East
The Renee Stepham Award for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre
