Curtain up on our longlist
From fresh talent to A-list stars, we reveal London theatre’s biggest and brightest names in the running for this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards
ACAVALCADE of stars including Glenn Close, Noma Dumezweni, Ralph Fiennes, Ian McKellen, James Norton, Billie Piper and Patrick Stewart, are up for the top gongs at the 62nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards. It has been a spectacular year for London theatre and our diverse longlist, revealed today, represents the best of what the capital has to offer — from Chekhov to Harry Potter, tiny fringe gems to
West End smash-hits, unexpected revivals to fresh new ideas, emerging talent to A-list stars.
Shows are eligible for the awards if they opened in London between November 22, 2015, and September 30 this year.
The shortlist will be revealed in Monday’s paper and the winners will be announced at the ceremony co-hosted by Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev and Sir Elton John and at the Old Vic on November 13.
The Entertainer
The Libertine (Theatre Royal Bath/Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre, Lyttelton)
The Master Builder (Old Vic)/Richard III (Almeida)
Platonov (Chichester Festival Theatre/National Theatre, Olivier)
The Encounter (Edinburgh International FestivalFestival/Barbican)
No Man’s LanLand (Wyndham’s)
Bug
(FFound111)
Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court, Jerwood Upstairs)
Les BlaBlancs (National TheaTheatre, Olivier)
No Man’s LanLand (Wyndham’s) Nell Gwynn (Apollo)
Linda (Royal Court, Jerwood Downstairs)
The Deep Blue Sea (National Theatre, Lyttelton)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Donmar)
Iphigenia in Splott (Sherman Cymru/National Theatre, Temporary Theatre)
Yerma (Young Vic) Jack Thorne, J K Rowling & John Tiffany (Palace Theatre)
(Tricycle) Graham (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Soho)
(Almeida)
(Almeida)
Canary (Rose Kingston)
Man’s Land (Wyndham’s)
Mathias)
(Hampstead)
No
Ayad Akhtar
Gary Owen (Sherman Cymru/National Theatre, Temporary Theatre)
James
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National
Theatre, Lyttelton)
Husbands and Sons (National Theatre, Dorfman)
Les Blancs (National Theatre, Olivier)
The Flick (National Theatre, Dorfman)
Richard III
Uncle Vanya
Good
Cleansed (National Theatre, Dorfman)
Yerma
(Young Vic)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace)
Groundhog Day (Old Vic)
National Theatre, Olivier (directed by Yaël Farber)
Young Vic (dir Matthew Xia)
National Theatre, Dorfman (dir Katie Mitchell)
Donmar (dir Josie Rourke)
National Theatre, Lyttelton (dir Dominic Cooke)
Wyndham’s (dir Sean
Almeida (dir Rupert Goold)
Almeida (dir Robert Icke) Young Vic (dir Simon Stone)
Chichester Festival Theatre/National Theatre, Olivier (dir Jonathan Kent)
You For Me For You (Royal Court, Jerwood Upstairs)
Boy (Almeida)/Wild
Husbands and Sons (National Theatre, Dorfman)
(sound design) The Encounter (Edinburgh International Festival/Barbican)
The Master Builder (Old Vic)/Groundhog Day (Old Vic)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace)
The Flick (National Theatre,
Dorfman)
Rotterdam (Theatre503/ Trafalgar Studios)
Jess and Zoe Forever (Orange Tree)
Cypress Avenue (Royal Court, Jerwood Upstairs)
Cuttin’ It (Young Vic/ Royal Court/Yard)