2010 Evening Standard Theatre Awards
The 2010 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 29 November 2010. The shortlist was revealed on 22 November 2010 and the longlist on 25 October 2010.Winners, shortlist and longlist
= winnerBest Play
- Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
- Cock by Mike Bartlett
- Sucker Punch by Roy Williams
Longlisted
- The Big Fellah by Richard Bean
- The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett
- Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery
- Ruined by Lynn Nottage
- Posh by Laura Wade
Best Director
- Howard Davies for The White Guard & All My Sons
- Nicholas Hytner for The Habit of Art & London Assurance & Hamlet
- Laurie Sansom for Beyond the Horizon and Spring Storm
- Thea Sharrock for After the Dance
Longlisted
- Dominic Cooke for Clybourne Park
- Rupert Goold for Romeo and Juliet & Earthquakes in London
- Michael Grandage for Red & Danton's Death
- Jeremy Herrin for Spur of the Moment
- Joe Hill-Gibbins for The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- James MacDonald for Cock
- Roger Michell for Rope
- Lyndsey Turner for Posh
Best Actor
- Rory Kinnear, Measure for Measure & Hamlet
- Roger Allam, Henry IV Parts One and Two
- David Suchet, All My Sons
Longlisted
- Bertie Carvel, Rope
- Benedict Cumberbatch, After the Dance
- Martin Freeman, Clybourne Park
- Alex Jennings, The Habit of Art
- Adrian Lester, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Alfred Molina, Red
- Jonathan Pryce, The Caretaker
- Simon Russell Beale, London Assurance & Deathtrap
- Adrian Scarborough, After the Dance
Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress
- Nancy Carroll, After the Dance
- Elena Roger, Passion
- Sheridan Smith, Legally Blonde
- Sophie Thompson, Clybourne Park
Longlisted
- Gemma Arterton, The Little Dog Laughed
- Judi Dench, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Tamsin Greig, The Little Dog Laughed
- Jenny Jules, Ruined
- Keira Knightley, The Misanthrope
- Amanda Lawrence, Jiggery Pokery & Henry VIII
- Rosaleen Linehan, The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- Helen McCrory, The Late Middle Classes
- Lesley Manville, Six Degrees of Separation
- Anna Maxwell Martin, Measure for Measure
- Fiona Shaw, London Assurance
- Zoë Wanamaker, All My Sons
Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical
- Passion, Donmar Warehouse
- Legally Blonde, Savoy Theatre
- Les Misérables, 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 & Earthquakes in London
- Bunny Christie for The White Guard
- Christopher Oram for Passion & Red
Longlisted
- Lez Brotherston for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice & Measure for Measure & Women Beware Women & Design for Living
- Rob Howell for Private Lives & Deathtrap
- Vicki Mortimer for The Cat in the Hat
- Mark Thompson for London Assurance
Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright
- Anya Reiss for Spur of the Moment
- DC Moore for The Empire
- Nick Payne for If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet & Wanderlust
Longlisted
- James Graham for The Whisky Taster & The Man
- Atiha Sen Gupta for What Fatima Did
- Penelope Skinner for Eigengrau
Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer
- You Me Bum Bum Train created by Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd
- Melanie Chisholm for her performance in Blood Brothers
- Daniel Kaluuya for his performance in Sucker Punch
- Isabella Laughland for her performance in Wanderlust
- Shannon Tarbet for her performance in Spur of the Moment
Longlisted
- Laura Dos Santos for her performance in Educating Rita
- Simon Godwin for his direction of Wanderlust
- Henry Lloyd-Hughes for his performances in Rope and Posh
- James McArdle for his performance in Spur of the Moment
- James Musgrave for his performance in Wanderlust
- Nikesh Patel for his performance in Disconnect
Editor's Award
- Daniel Kaluuya for his performance in Sucker Punch
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