Evita and Frost/Nixon Lead Evening Standard Nominations

Nominations for London's Evening Standard Theatre Awards have been announced.

Two shows directed by Michael Grandage--the revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical Evita and the world premiere of Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon--each received four nominations, while Tom Stoppard's acclaimed Rock 'N' Roll and Anthony Page's transfer production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? tied as the third most honored production, with three nods each. 

Bill Irwin, Kevin Spacey, Frances O'Connor and Kathleen Turner were among the acting nominees, while Evita star Elena Roger was nominated as Outstanding Newcomer.

The ceremony will take place on November 27th at the Savoy Hotel.  The winner of the annual Special Award (usually bestowed as a Lifetime Achievement award), as well as the recipient of the Most Promising Playwright Award, will be announced at the ceremony.

The nominations follow:

Best Play
Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan
Rock 'N' Roll by Tom Stoppard
The Seafarer by Conor McPherson

Best Musical
Caroline, or Change
Evita
Spamalot
Sunday in the Park with George

The Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director
Marianne Elliott—Pillars of the Community
Michael Grandage—The Wild Duck, Frost/Nixon and Evita
Anthony Page—Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Actor
Bill Irwin—Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Rufus Sewell—Rock 'N' Roll
Michael Sheen—Frost/Nixon
Kevin Spacey—A Moon for the Misbegotten

Best Actress
Sinead Cusack—Rock 'N' Roll
Frances O'Connor—Tom And Viv
Kathleen Turner—Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Design
Timothy Bird (projection design) and David Farley (set and costume design)—Sunday in the Park with George
Borkur Jonsson—Metamorphosis
Christopher Oram—Evita and Frost/Nixon

The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer
Andrew Garfield—Beautiful Thing; Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship; The Overwhelming
Chris New—Bent
Punchdrunk Theatre Group—Faust
Elena Roger—Evita