VIDEO: Watch Laura Linney, Stars of HAMILTON, COMPANY & More at the Evening Standard Awards
The winners of the 2018 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were revealed last night at a ceremony at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane. See videos below of stars on the red carpet and discussing their wins!
A radical revision of Stephen Sondheim's and George Furth's Company won Marianne Elliott the Milton Shulman Award for Best Director. She switched the gender of the leading man to a woman, giving Rosalie Craig the role of a lifetime and the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical Performance.
The West End's other unstoppable musical, Hamilton, also won two awards. Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop history, which opened last December, was named Best Musical. Its London star Jamael Westman was presented the Award for Emerging Talent.
Letitia Wright talks on the red carpet about celebrating up and coming talent #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/6pX4xo18DH
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Kyle Soller talks about starring in The Inheritance #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/gXJlYxXKlc
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Sophie Okonedo on playing Cleopatra alongside Ralph Fiennes #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/BjW05D3TwJ
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Colin Morgan tells us what he's got coming up next #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/BgzxfPVOMJ
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Ralph Fiennes talks about how relevant Shakespeare's plays are to today's politics #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/70dEhK3B2w
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Rosalie Craig says it's 'heaven' to be shortlisted for her starring role in Company #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/VWXz0sMac1
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Laura Linney is 'still terrified' about being alone on stage in My Name is Lucy Barton #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/tfVlhVtUgj
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Hamilton's Jamael Westman says 'diversity is life' #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/Y6f9JOr4JV
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge is starting us off in style #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/ZcHVUdFuim
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'It's a true family.' The cast of @HamiltonWestEnd backstage after winning Best Musical at #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/HWYWLvTDPu
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'We'd have never believed the production would have worked with a woman.' @Rosiemae talks about winning Best Musical Performance for @CompanyWestEnd #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/4h4ovX0odF
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'You're supposed to say you love all your plays equally like you love all your children and that's not true' Matthew Lopez talks about winning Best Play for The Inheritance @inheritanceplay #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/Wi6dlXxsJv
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'You need a lot of life to play Cleopatra' says Sophie Okonedo #ESTheatreAwardshttps://t.co/kWvz6wIwPd
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'This is heavy! So it feels like the burden of what comes next is heavy' - @JamWestman backstage after winning the Emerging Talent Award #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/Dn15zreg2S
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'I don't know where the time has gone' - Sir Cameron Mackintosh talks about winning the Lebedev Award for his contribution to musical theatre #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/Fm2MBZmMHO
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'I'm happy to have this wonderful role - to get this is the cherry on the cake' Ralph Fiennes on his Best Actor-winning performance in @NationalTheatre's Antony & Cleopatra #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/f7eaaRHBLc
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'I'm a writer that's lost for words.' Natasha Gordon talks about what winning the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright means to her. #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/maqBM4OyPO
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'We're a really new company, so we worked really hard to get this off the ground.' Marianne Elliott talks about winning the Milton Shulman Award for Best Director for @CompanyWestEnd #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/V5aHwozRlY
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'We've got to do a show on Wednesday and now we've got to live up to this!' Sophie Okonedo expresses her joy at winning the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress for Antony & Cleopatra at the @NationalTheatre #ESTheatreAwards pic.twitter.com/vH0rF1zWlo
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