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Dateline: 2nd November, 2009

Evening Standard Longlist Announced

For the third year running, the Evening Standard has announced the "longlist" of nominees for its theatre awards, which will be reduced to a shortlist next week and the winners will be announced on 23rd November at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Best Actor

• Bertie Carvel for The Pride (Royal Court)
• Michael Feast for Plague Over England (Duchess)
• Henry Goodman for Duet For One (Almeida/Vaudeville)
• David Harewood for The Mountaintop (Theatre 503/Trafalgar Studios)
• Matthew Kelly for Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (Trafalgar Studios) and Troilus And Cressida (Shakespeare's Globe)
• Ian McKellen for Waiting For Godot (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
• Simon Russell Beale for The Winter's Tale (Old Vic)
• Mark Rylance for Jerusalem (Royal Court)
• Kevin Spacey for Inherit The Wind (Old Vic)
• Ken Stott for A View From The Bridge (Duke of York's)
• David Tennant for Hamlet (RSC Stratford/Novello)
• David Troughton for Enjoy (Gielgud) and Inherit The Wind (Old Vic)
• Samuel West for Enron (Royal Court)

The Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress

• Samantha Bond for Arcadia (Duke of York's)
• Deanna Dunagan for August: Osage County (Steppenwolf/National Theatre)
• Penny Downie for Helen (Shakespeare's Globe)
• Rebecca Hall for The Winter's Tale (Old Vic)
• Pauline Malefane for The Mysteries – Yiimimangaliso (Garrick)
• Lyndsey Marshal for The Pride (Royal Court)
• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio for A View From The Bridge (Duke of York's)
• Amy Morton for August: Osage County (Steppenwolf/National Theatre)
• Juliet Stevenson for Duet For One (Almeida/Vaudeville)
• Michelle Terry for England People Very Nice (National Theatre)
• Rachel Weisz for A Streetcar Named Desire (Donmar Warehouse)

Best Play

• August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (Steppenwolf/National Theatre)
• England People Very Nice by Richard Bean (National Theatre)
• Enron by Lucy Prebble (Royal Court)
• Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth (Royal Court)
• Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek/Ryan Craig (Steppenwolf/National Theatre)
• Pornography by Simon Stephens (Tricycle)
• Punk Rock by Simon Stephens (Lyric Hammersmith)
• Tusk Tusk by Polly Stenham (Royal Court)
• When The Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell (Almeida)

The Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

• A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory/Garrick theatre)
• Been So Long (Young Vic)
• Hello, Dolly! (Open Air, Regent's Park)
• The Mysteries – Yiimimangaliso (Garrick)
• Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith/Novello)
• Sunset Boulevard (Comedy)

Best Director

• Howard Davies for Burnt By The Sun (National Theatre)
• Marianne Elliott for All's Well That Ends Well (National Theatre)
• Richard Eyre for The Last Cigarette (Trafalgar Studios) and The Observer (National Theatre)
• Rupert Goold for Enron (Royal Court)
• Jeremy Herrin for Tusk Tusk (Royal Court)
• Janice Honeyman for The Tempest (RSC Stratford/Richmond Theatre)
• Sean Mathias for Waiting For Godot (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
• Sam Mendes for The Winter's Tale (Old Vic)
• Ian Rickson for Jerusalem (Royal Court)
• Anna D Shapiro for August: Osage County (Steppenwolf/National Theatre)

Best Design

• Jon Bausor for Kursk (Young Vic)
• Miriam Buether for Judgment Day (Almeida)
• Lez Brotherston for Dancing At Lughnasa (Old Vic)
• Bob Crowley for Phèdre (National Theatre) and The Power Of Yes (National Theatre)
• Rob Howell for The Observer (National Theatre)
• Mamoru Iriguchi for Mincemeat (Cardboard Citizens/Cordy House, Shoreditch)
• Peter McKintosh for Prick Up Your Ears (Comedy)
• Vicki Mortimer for Burnt By The Sun (National Theatre)
• Christopher Oram for Hamlet, Madame De Sade, Twelfth Night (all Donmar West End at Wyndham's theatre) and A Streetcar Named Desire (Donmar Warehouse)
• Todd Rosenthal for August: Osage County (National Theatre)
• Ultz for Jerusalem (Royal Court)

The Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

• Alia Bano for Shades (Royal Court)
• Kieron Barry for Stockwell (Landor/Tricycle)
• Lucy Kirkwood for It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It Is Alright Now (Arcola)
• Molly Davies for A Miracle (Royal Court)
• Katori Hall for The Mountaintop (Theatre 503/Trafalgar Studios)
• Ella Hickson for Eight (Trafalgar Studios)
• Alexi Kaye Campbell for The Pride (Royal Court) and Apologia (Bush)

The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer

• Naana Agyei-Ampadu for Been So Long (Young Vic)
• Aneurin Barnard for Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith/Novello)
• Lenny Henry for Othello (Northern Broadsides at Trafalgar Studios)
• Ruth Negga for Phèdre (National Theatre)
• Bel Powley for Tusk Tusk (Royal Court)
• Toby Regbo for Tusk Tusk (Royal Court)
• Tom Sturridge for Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith)
• Charlotte Wakefield for Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith/Novello)
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge for 2nd May 1997 (Bush)

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