WhatsonStage Awards Nominations 2023
Best Regional Production:
In Dreams at Leeds Playhouse – With Choreographer Fabian Aloise
Miss Saigon at Sheffield Crucible – Casting by Stuart Burt CDG, and designed by Ben Stones
To Wong Foo the Musical - Casting by Sarah Leung
Best Off-West End Production:
Flower for Mrs Harris at Riverside Studios – Book by Rachel Wagstaff, and starring Jenna Russell
George Takei's Allegiance - Casting by Sarah Leung
Best Choreography:
Sunset Boulevard at Savoy Theatre - With Choreography Fabian Aloise
Guys & Dolls - Co-Choreographed by James Cousins
Best Costume Design:
La Cage aux Folles at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre - With Ryan Dawson Laight
Best Lighting Design:
Sunset Boulevard at Savoy Theatre - With Jack Knowles
Best Set Design:
Disney’s Newsies at Troubadour Theatre - Wtih Morgan Large
Best New Musical:
Disney’s Newsies at Troubadour Theatre – Set Design by Morgan Large
Mrs Doubtfire at Shaftesbury Theatre – Casting by Stuart Burt CDG and book co-written by John O’Farrell
Operation Mincemeat, Fortune Theatre - Designed by Ben Stones
Guys & Dolls - Co-Choreographed by James Cousins
Best Musical Revival:
La Cage aux Folles at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – Costume Design by Ryan Dawson Laight and choreography by Stephen Mear
Sunset Boulevard at Savoy Theatre – Choreography by Fabian Aloise, Lighting by Jack Knowles, and Casting by Stuart Burt CDG
Best New Play:
The Motive and The Cue at National Theatre – With Associate Director Zoé Ford Burnett
Motive & the Cue - With David Ricardo Pearce
Dear England, National Theatre / Prince Edward Theatre - Starring Gina McKee, and Kel Matsena
Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Phoenix Theatre - Starring, Oscar Lloyd, with Sound Designer Paul Arditti, and Illusions Designer Jamie Harrison
Best Play Revival:
The Effect at National Theatre – With Sound Design by George Dennis
VANYA, Duke of York’s Theatre - Starring and Co-created by Andrew Scott
BACK TO THE FUTURE - With Set and Costume Designer by Tim Hatley and Co Lighting Designer Hugh Vanstone
The Pillowman, Duke of York’s Theatre - Starring Lily Allen, and with Lighting Designer Neil Austin
Merchant of Venice 1936 - Starring Hannah Morrish, and Designed by Liz Cooke
Best Performer in a Play:
VANYA, Duke of York’s Theatre - Starring Andrew Scott
Best Casting Direction:
Motive and the Cue, National Theatre - With Alastair Coomer
Best Direction
Dear England, National Theatre / Prince Edward Theatre - With Rupert Goold
Best Takeover Performance:
Back to the Future: The Musical, Adelphi Theatre - Cory English
Cabaret, Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre - Rebecca Lucy Taylor
Best West End Show:
Back to the Future: The Musical, Adelphi Theatre - With Cory English
Cabaret, Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre - With Rebecca Lucy Taylor. and casting by Rebecca Lucy Taylor
Les Misérables, Sondheim Theatre – With Additional Material James Fenton
Best Sound Design:
Guys and Dolls, Bridge Theatre - With Paul Arditti
Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Phoenix Theatre - With Paul Arditti