2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards

{{Short description|British theatre award season}}

The 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 25 November 2012.[https://www.standard.co.uk/arts/theatre/hattie-morahan-takes-best-actress-crown-at-evening-standard-theatre-awards-8348965.html Awards announcement] The shortlist was revealed on 12 November 2012[https://www.standard.co.uk/arts/theatre/evening-standard-theatre-awards-adrian-lester-and-his-writer-wife-lolita-chakrabarti-shortlisted-8306478.html Shortlist] and the longlist on 29 October 2012.[https://www.standard.co.uk/arts/theatre/london-evening-standard-theatre-awards-2012--longlist-revealed-8230674.html Longlist]

Winners, shortlist and longlist

{{Blue ribbon}} = winner

=Best Play=

==Longlisted==

=Best Director=

==Longlisted==

=Best Actor=

==Longlisted==

=Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress=

==Longlisted==

=Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical=

  • {{Blue ribbon}} Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival and Adelphi)
  • Singin’ In the Rain (Chichester Festival and Palace Theatre)
  • Swallows and Amazons (A Bristol Old Vic production, presented by the National Theatre and The Children's Touring Partnership at the Vaudeville Theatre)

==Longlisted==

=Best Design=

==Longlisted==

=Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright=

==Longlisted==

  • Stephen Beresford, The Last of the Haussmans (National's Lyttelton)
  • Ishy Din, Snookered (Bush Theatre and Oldham Coliseum Theatre co-production)
  • Vickie Donoghue, Mudlarks (Bush)
  • Nancy Harris, Our New Girl (Bush)
  • Luke Norris, Goodbye to All That (Royal Court Upstairs)
  • Nicholas Pierpan, You Can Still Make a Killing (Southwark Playhouse)
  • Tim Price, Salt, Root and Roe (Trafalgar Studios)
  • Hayley Squires, Vera Vera Vera (Royal Court Upstairs and Theatre Local Peckham)

=Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer=

==Longlisted==

=Beyond Theatre Award=

  • {{Blue ribbon}} Danny Boyle and his creative team, for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics

=Lebedev Special Award=

  • {{Blue ribbon}} Nicholas Hytner, for his dynamic directorship of the National Theatre

=Editor's Award=

  • {{Blue ribbon}} David Hare, for his contribution to theatre

=Burberry Award for Emerging Director=

=Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull Award=

  • {{Blue ribbon}} Judi Dench, for her contribution to world theatre

Judges

References