The winners of the 2008 Evening Standard Awards for theatre have been
announced:
Best Play
The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall (Live Theatre and National
Theatre co-production)
Best Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor (Othello
- Donmar Warehouse)
Best Actress
Margaret Tyzack (The Chalk
Garden - Donmar Warehouse)
and
Penelope Wilton (The Chalk
Garden - Donmar Warehouse)
The Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical
Street Scene
(The Opera Group, Young Vic and Watford Palace Theatre co-production)
The Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director
Michael Grandage (Othello
– Donmar Warehouse/The
Chalk Garden – Donmar Warehouse/Ivanov
- Donmar West End at Wyndham's)
Best Design
Neil Murray (Brief
Encounter - Kneehigh at Cinema Haymarket)
The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer
Ella Smith (Fat Pig
- Trafalgar Studio 1 and the Comedy Theatre)
The Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright
Tarell Alvin McCraney (In
The Red And Brown Water / The
Brothers Size - Young Vic)
Special Award
Kevin Spacey
Editor’s Award
The Royal Shakespeare Company for the Histories cycle at the
Roundhouse
