WHATSONSTAGE THEATREGOERS CHOICE AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

The SPOTLIGHT Best Actress in a Play

•    Helen McCrory – The Late Middle Classes at the Donmar Warehouse
•    Jenny Jules – Ruined at the Almeida
•    Kim Cattrall – Private Lives at the Vaudeville
•    Nancy Carroll – After the Dance at the National, Lyttelton
•    Tracie Bennett – End of the Rainbow at Trafalgar Studios
•    Zoë Wanamaker – All My Sons at the Apollo

The SPOTLIGHT Best Actor in a Play

•    Benedict Cumberbatch – After the Dance at the National, Lyttelton
•    David Suchet – All My Sons at the Apollo
•    Matthew Macfadyen – Private Lives at the Vaudeville
•    Rory Kinnear – Hamlet at the National, Olivier & Measure for Measure at the Almeida
•    Simon Russell Beale – Deathtrap at the Noel Coward & London Assurance at the National, Olivier
•    Toby Stephens – The Real Thing at the Old Vic

The BABY GRAND Best Actress in a Musical

•    Anna-Jane Casey – Bells Are Ringing at the Union
•    Elena Roger – Passion at the Donmar Warehouse
•    Sheridan Smith – Legally Blonde at the Savoy
•    Sierra Boggess – Love Never Dies at the Adelphi
•    Tamzin Outhwaite – Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Theatre Royal Haymarket
•    Victoria Hamilton-Barritt – Flashdance at the Shaftesbury

The EMG Best Actor in a Musical

•    Alex Gaumond – Legally Blonde at the Savoy
•    John Owen-Jones – Les Miserables 25th anniversary production at the Barbican
•    Mark Umbers – Sweet Charity at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Theatre Royal Haymarket
•    Michael Arden – Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory
•    Ramin Karimloo – Love Never Dies at the Adelphi
•    Sahr Ngaujah – Fela! at the National, Olivier

Best Ensemble Performance

•    Hair – at the Gielgud
•    Les Miserables 25th anniversary concert – at The O2
•    Men Should Weep – at the National, Lyttelton
•    Posh – at the Royal Court Downstairs
•    When We Are Married – at the Garrick
•    Women, Power & Politics – at the Tricycle

The EQUITY Best West End Show

•    Jersey Boys
•    Les Miserables
•    Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
•    The Phantom of the Opera
•    War Horse
•    Wicked