NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Evening Standard Award

The Evening Standard Awards are presented annually for oustanding achievements in London Theatre. They are sponsored by the Evening Standard newspaper.

The recent winners in the principal categories have been as follows.

Contents

1 Best Play

2 Best Actor

3 Best Actress

4 Best Musical

5 Other London Theatre Awards

Best Play

2004 - The History Boys by Alan Bennett

2003 - Democracy by Michael Frayn

2002 - A Number by Caryl Churchill

2001 - The Far Side of the Moon by Robert Lepage

2000 - Blue Orange by Joe Penhall

Best Actor

2004 - Richard Griffiths for The History Boys

2003 - Michael Sheen for Caligula

2002 - Simon Russell Beale for Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night

2001 - Alex Jennings for The Winter's Tale and The Relapse

2000 - Simon Russell Beale for Hamlet

Best Actress

2004 - Victoria Hamilton for Suddenly Last Summer

2003 - Sandy McDade for Iron

2002 - Claire Higgins for Vincent in Brixton

2001 - Fiona Shaw for Medea

2000 - Paola Dionisotti for Further Than the Furthest Thing

Best Musical

2004 - The Producers

2003 - Jerry Springer: The Opera

2002 - The Full Monty

2001 - Kiss me Kate (a revival)

2000 - The Car Man

Other London Theatre Awards

Laurence Olivier Awards

London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards

Categories: Theatre in London

Results from FactBites:

Evening Standard - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (1007 words)
	The Evening Standard is an English tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas.
	The paper was launched as the Standard on May 21, 1827 and for a short period during the 1990s it reverted to its original name (some other local newspapers in the UK have also been named "Evening Standard").
	Although the Standard (as it is commonly referred to) shares the same Editor in Chief, Paul Dacre, as the Daily Mail it has a quite different style from the latter's "middle England" outlook, having to appeal to a cosmopolitan readership.

Evening Standard Theatre Awards -- December 13, 2004 (696 words)
	Harold Pinter and Dame Judi Dench were honoured today in the 50th Evening Standard Theatre Awards which were presented at a star-studded ceremony at the National Theatre, and the National itself even collected a prize.
	The playwright, the actress and the South Bank institution were each given Special Awards, honouring their unique contributions to the nation's cultural life and marking the Standard awards' own remarkable half-century.
	The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer, renamed this year in honour of the Evening Standard's late theatre critic, was awarded to Eddie Redmayne for his performance as the troubled gay son in Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

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