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

The Motive and the Cue, National Theatre - Starring Johnny Flynn, and with Sound Designer Paul Arditti

Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Phoenix Theatre - Starring, Oscar Lloydwith 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 TheatreCory 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 Taylorand 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

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