Evening Standard Theatre Awards Winners 2006

Evening Standard Theatre Awards Winners

The winners of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards have been announced today.

The 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards ceremony took place on Monday 27th November 2006 at The Savoy

The 2006 winners ...

BEST PLAY
Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard

BEST MUSICAL
Caroline, Or Change

BEST ACTOR
Rufus Sewell for his performance in Rock 'n' Roll

BEST ACTRESS
Kathleen Turner for her performance in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

THE SYDNEY EDWARDS AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Marianne Elliott for Pillars Of The Community

THE CHARLES WINTOUR AWARD FOR MOST PROMISING PLAYWRIGHT
Nina Raine for Rabbit

BEST DESIGN
Timothy Bird & David Farley for Sunday In The Park With George

THE MILTON SHULMAN AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING NEWCOMER
Andrew Garfield for Beautiful Thing; Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship; The Overwhelming

EDITOR'S AWARD
Frost/Nixon

SPECIAL AWARD
The Tricycle Theatre for its pioneering work in political theatre.

The judging panel for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards were theatre critics; Nicholas de Jongh (Evening Standard), Benedict Nightingale (The Times), Susannah Clapp (The Observer), Georgina Brown (Mail on Sunday), Charles Spencer (The Daily Telegraph), and Alistair Macaulay (Financial Times).