Evening Standard Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, the first awards of the UK season have recently been published.

The awards took place at a ceremony hosted by Richard Wilson on November 24th, 2008.

The Evening Standard Awards are determined by a panel of critics that include Mail on Sunday's  Georgina Brown, The London Observer's Susannah Clapp, The Times' Benedict Nightingale, Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer and The Evening Standard's Nicholas de Jongh.

The following are the winners:

BEST PLAY
The Pitmen Painters - by Lee Hall (Live Theatre and National Theatre co-production)

BEST ACTOR
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Othello (Donmar Warehouse)

BEST ACTRESS (tie)
Margaret Tyzack - The Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse)
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/The Chalk Garden/Ivanov (Donmar West End at

BEST DESIGN
Neil Murray - Brief Encounter (Kneehigh at Cinema Haymarket Theatre)

THE MILTON SHULMAN AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING NEWCOMER
Ella Smith - Fat Pig (Trafalgar Studios and Comedy Theatre)

THE CHARLES WINTOUR AWARD FOR MOST PROMISING PLAYWRIGHT
Tarell Alvin McCraney - In The Red And Brown Water/The Brothers Size (Young Vic)

Photo by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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