Evening Standard Awards
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- This article is about the theatre awards. For the pub awards see Evening Standard Pub of the Year
The recent winners in the principal categories have been as follows.
Contents
Best Play
- 2005 – The Home Place by Brian Friel
- 2004 – The History Boys by Alan Bennett
- 2003 – Democracy by Michael Frayn
- 2002 – A Number by Caryl Churchill
- 2001 – The Far Side of the Moon by Robert Lepage
- 2000 – Blue Orange by Joe Penhall
- 1999 – No Award Given
- 1998 – Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
- 1997 – The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
- 1996 – Stanley by Pam Gems
- 1995 – Pentecost by David Edgar
- 1994 – Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
- 1993 – Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
- 1992 – Angels in America by Tony Kushner
- 1991 – Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
- 1990 – Shadowlands adapted by William Nicholson from a play Surprised By Joy by Brian Sibley and Norman Stone
- 1989 – Ghetto by Yehoshua Sobol
- 1988 – Aristocrats by Brian Friel
- 1987 – A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn
- 1986 – Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
- 1985 – Pravda by Howard Brenton and David Hare
- 1984 – Benefactors by Michael Frayn
- 1983 – Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard
- 1982 – The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
- 1981 – Passion Play by Peter Nichols
Best Actor
- 2005 – Simon Russell Beale for The Philanthropist
- 2004 – Richard Griffiths for The History Boys
- 2003 – Michael Sheen for Caligula
- 2002 – Simon Russell Beale for Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night
- 2001 – Alex Jennings for The Winter's Tale and The Relapse
- 2000 – Simon Russell Beale for Hamlet
- 1999 – Stephen Dillane for The Real Thing
- 1998 – Kevin Spacey for The Iceman Cometh
- 1997 – Ian Holm for King Lear
- 1996 – Paul Scofield for John Gabriel Borkman
- 1995 – Michael Gambon for Volpone
- 1994 – Tom Courtenay for Moscow Stations
- 1993 – Ian Holm for Moonlight
- 1992 – Nigel Hawthorne for The Madness of King George III
- 1991 – John Wood for King Lear
- 1990 – Richard Harris for Henry IV
- 1989 – Ian McKellen for Othello
- 1988 – Eric Porter for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- 1987 – Michael Gambon for A View from a Bridge
- 1986 – Albert Finney for Orphans
- 1985 – Anthony Sher for Richard III
Best Actress
- 2005 – Harriet Walter for Mary Stuart
- 2004 – Victoria Hamilton for Suddenly Last Summer
- 2003 – Sandy McDade for Iron
- 2002 – Claire Higgins for Vincent in Brixton
- 2001 – Fiona Shaw for Medea
- 2000 – Paola Dionisotti for Further Than the Furthest Thing
- 1999 – Janie Dee for Comic Potential
- 1998 – Sinead Cusack for Our Lady of Sligo
- 1997 – Eileen Atkins for A Delicate Balance
- 1996 – Diana Rigg for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Mother Courage
- 1995 – Geraldine McEwan for The Way of the World
- 1994 – Maggie Smith for Three Tall Women
- 1993 – Fiona Shaw for Machinal
- 1992 – Diana Rigg for Medea
- 1991 – Vanessa Redgrave for When She Danced
- 1990 – Josette Simon for After The Fall
- 1989 – Felicity Kendal for Much Ado About Nothing and Ivanov
- 1988 – Lindsay Duncan for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- 1987 – Judi Dench for Antony and Cleopatra
- 1986 – Julia McKenzie for Woman in Mind
- 1985 – Vanessa Redgrave for The Seagull
Best Musical
- 2005 – Billy Elliot
- 2004 – The Producers
- 2003 – [[Jerry Springer: The Opera]]
- 2002 – The Full Monty
- 2001 – Kiss me Kate (a revival)
- 2000 – The Car Man
- 1990 – Into The Woods
- 1989 – Miss Saigon
- 1988 – No Award Given
- 1987 – Follies
- 1986 – The Phantom of the Opera
- 1985 – Are You Lonesome Tonight
Best Director
- 1995 – Matthew Warchus for Volpone and Henry V
- 1994 – Sean Mathias for Les Parents Terrible and Design For Living
- 1993 – Terry Hands for Tamburlaine The Great
- 1992 – Stephen Daldry for An Inspector Calls
- 1991 – Trevor Nunn for Timon of Athens
- 1990 – Richard Jones for Into The Woods and The Illusion
- 1989 – Nicholas Hytner for Miss Saigon and Ghetto
- 1988 – Deborah Warner for Titus Andronicus
- 1987 – Sir Peter Hall for Antony and Cleopatra
- 1986 – Nuria Espert for The House of Bernarda Alba
- 1985 – Bill Bryden for The Mysteries
Other London Theatre awards
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