64th Evening Standard Theatre Awards
The 64th ''Evening Standard'' Theatre Awards were awarded in recognition of the 2017–18 London Theatre season on 18 November 2018 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Nominations were announced in November 2018. The ceremony was presented by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and co-hosted by Idris Elba, Claire Foy, Evgeny Lebedev and Anna Wintour. Eligibility and nominators All new productions and performances on the London stage between 20 October 2017 and 16 October 2018 were eligible for consideration. The Advisory Judging Panel consisted of ''Evening Standard'' chief theatre critic Henry Hitchings, ''Daily Mail'' columnist Baz Bamigboye, ''The Guardian'' culture writer and broadcaster Mark Lawson, ''WhatsOnStage'' theatre critic Sarah Crompton, ''The New York Times International'' theatre critic Matt Wolf and ''Evening Standard'' editor George Osborne. Ceremony Presenters * Claire Foy presented Best Actor * Richard Madden presented the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Act ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building is the most recent in a line of four theatres which were built at the same location, the earliest of which dated back to 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London still in use. According to the author Peter Thomson, for its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed to be London's leading theatre". For most of that time, it was one of a handful of patent theatres, granted monopoly rights to the production of "legitimate" drama in London (meaning spoken plays, rather than opera, dance, concerts, or plays with music). The first theatre on the site was built at the behest of Thomas Killigrew in the early 1660s, when theatres were allowed to reopen during the English Restoration. Initially ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mark Lawson
Mark Gerard Lawson is an English journalist, broadcaster and author. Specialising in culture and the arts, he is best known for presenting the flagship BBC Radio 4 arts programme ''Front Row (radio programme), Front Row'' between 1998 and 2014.Padraic Flanaga"Mark Lawson to leave BBC show 'for personal reasons'" ''The Daily Telegraph'', 5 March 2014 He is also a ''The Guardian, Guardian'' columnist, and presented ''Mark Lawson Talks To...'' on BBC Four from 2006 to 2015. Life and career Born in Hendon, north London,"Mark Lawson to leave BBC's Front Row" BBC News, 5 March 2014 Lawson was raised in Leeds, where his father was a marketing director for the Civil Service (United Kingdom), Civil Service and British Telecom. Both of his parents originated from the northeast of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alex Gaumond
Alex Gaumond (born ) is a Canadian actor, singer, songwriter and filmmaker best known for his involvement in West End theatre. He plays series regular gendarme Caron, the chief of police in Sainte Victoire, in the Channel 5 television series '' The Madame Blanc Mysteries'', starring Sally Lindsay. On stage, Gaumond is best known for playing the leading roles of Galileo in the Queen musical ''We Will Rock You'', Emmett in the original London production of ''Legally Blonde'' and Miss Trunchbull in the RSC's ''Matilda''. Early life Gaumond was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to French speaking parents. He moved to the UK in 1997 to study at Guildford School of Acting where he graduated with a 1st class BA (Hons) in 2000. Stage career 2000–01 (''Miss Saigon'') After completing his degree at GSA in 2000, Gaumond made his professional debut that very same year in the ensemble of ''Miss Saigon'' in the Philippines. Gaumond also understudied the leading role of Chris in that produ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jonathan Bailey
Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born 25 April 1988) is an English actor. Known for his comedic, dramatic, and musical roles on stage and screen, he is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award and a nomination for a Evening Standard Theatre Award. Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions and by eight was performing as Gavroche in a West End production of ''Les Misérables''. He has since starred in contemporary plays such as ''South Downs'' in 2012, ''The York Realist'' in 2018, and '' Cock'' in 2022; in classical plays like the Royal National Theatre's ''Othello'' in 2013 and Chichester Festival Theatre's ''King Lear'' in 2017; as well as in musicals, namely the London revival of ''The Last Five Years'' in 2016 and the West End gender-swapped revival of ''Company'' for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical in 2019. On screen, Bailey starred in the CBBC action-adventure series ''Leonardo'' (2 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Galliano
John Charles Galliano (born 28 November 1960) is a British fashion designer from Gibraltar. He was the creative director of his eponymous label John Galliano and French fashion houses Givenchy and Dior. Since 2014, Galliano has been the creative director of Paris-based fashion house Maison Margiela. Galliano has been named British Designer of the Year four times. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the fifth most influential person in British culture. Early life and education Galliano was born in Gibraltar to a Gibraltarian father of Italian descent, Juan Galliano, and a Spanish mother, Anita Galliano, and has two sisters. His father worked as a plumber. His family moved to England when Galliano was six, settling in Streatham and later Dulwich and Brockley in South London. He was raised in a strict Catholic family. Galliano attended St. Anthony's Primary School, Dulwich and Wilson's Grammar School in London. He went on to study at Central Saint Martins and graduated in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Patti LuPone
Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer best known for her work in musical theater. She has won three Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, two Grammy Awards, and was a 2006 inductee to the American Theater Hall of Fame. LuPone began her professional career with The Acting Company in 1972 and made her Broadway debut in '' Three Sisters'' in 1973. She received the first of eight Tony Award nominations for the 1975 musical '' The Robber Bridegroom''. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Eva Perón in the 1979 original Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ''Evita''. She played Fantine in the original London cast of ''Les Misérables'' and Moll in ''The Cradle Will Rock'', winning the 1985 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in both. She won a second Tony Award for her role as Rose in the 2008 Broadway revival of ''Gypsy''. For her performance as Joanne in Stephen Sondheim's ''Company'', she wo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stella McCartney
Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer. She is a daughter of British singer-songwriter Paul McCartney and the late American photographer and animals rights activist Linda McCartney. Like her parents, McCartney is a firm supporter of animal rights, environmentalism, and is particularly known for her use of vegetarian and animal-free alternatives in her work. Early life McCartney was born on 13 September 1971 at King's College Hospital in Camberwell, London. She is named after her maternal great-grandmothers (both of Linda's grandmothers were named Stella). Her mother, Linda Eastman McCartney, was of Jewish ancestry. As a girl, McCartney travelled the globe with her parents and their group Wings, along with her siblings: older half-sister Heather (who was legally adopted by Paul), older sister Mary, and younger brother James. According to her father, the name of Wings was inspired by Stella's difficult delivery. As his daughter was bein ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Wintour
Charles Vere Wintour (18 May 1917 – 4 November 1999) was a British newspaper editor, the father of ''Vogue'' magazine editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, and of the diplomatic editor of ''The Guardian'' newspaper, Patrick Wintour. After a life in media and publishing, Charles Wintour went on to become the editor-in-chief of the ''London Evening Standard''. Under his leadership, the ''Evening Standard'' was described as a "blend of popular and serious news and opinion" which prefigured many of the broadsheets of the 21st century". Wintour was educated at the University of Cambridge where he edited Granta magazine. Early life Wintour was born in Pamphill Manor, near Wimborne, Dorset, the son of Alice Jane Blanche Foster and Major-General Fitzgerald Wintour. He was the brother of Cordelia Mary Wintour. He wrote articles for the ''Radio Times'' while he was at Oundle School, and won a prize awarded by the ''Daily Mail''. He then went up to university where he studied at Peterhouse, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Evening Standard Theatre Award For Best Actress
The ''Evening Standard'' Theatre Award for Best Actress, also known as the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress since 2009, is an annual award presented by the Evening Standard in recognition of achievement in British theatre. Winners and nominees 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s {, class="wikitable" style="width:98%;" ! style="width:10%;" , Year ! style="width:25%;" , Actor ! style="width:35%;" , Work ! style="width:30%;" , Character , - ! rowspan="6" align="center" , 2022 {{Cite web , last=Robert , first=Dex , date=2022-12-11 , title=Jodie Comer takes centre stage at Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2022 , url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/jodie-comer-james-mcavoy-winners-evening-standard-theatre-awards-2022-b1046245.html , archive-date=2022-12-12 , access-date=2022-12-12 , website=www.standard.co.uk , - style="background:#B0C4DE" , Jodie Comer , ''Prima Facie'' , Tessa Ensler , - , Samira Wiley , ''Blues for an Alabama ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Richard Madden
Richard Madden (born 18 June 1986) is a Scottish actor. He was cast in his first role at age 11 and made his screen acting debut in 2000. He later began performing on stage whilst a student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2007, he toured with Shakespeare's Globe company as Romeo in ''Romeo and Juliet'', a role he reprised in the West End theatre, West End in 2016. Madden rose to fame with his portrayal of Robb Stark in the fantasy drama series ''Game of Thrones'' from 2011 to 2013. After his work on ''Game of Thrones'', Madden played List of Disney's Cinderella characters#Prince Charming, Prince Kit in the romantic fantasy film ''Cinderella (2015 American film), Cinderella'' (2015) and Italian banker Cosimo de' Medici in the first season of the historical fiction series ''Medici (TV series), Medici'' (2016). In 2018, he gained acclaim for his performance as a police officer in the thriller series ''Bodyguard (British TV series), Bodyguard'', for which he won a Golden ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Evening Standard Theatre Award For Best Actor
The Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor is an annual award presented since 1955 by the Evening Standard in recognition of achievement in British theatre. Winners and nominees 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s {, class="wikitable" style="width:98%;" ! style="width:10%;" , Year ! style="width:25%;" , Actor ! style="width:35%;" , Work ! style="width:30%;" , Character , - ! rowspan="6" align="center" , 2022 , - style="background:#B0C4DE" , James McAvoy , ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' , Cyrano , - , Paapa Essiedu , ''A Number'' , Various , - , Shubham Saraf , ''The Father and the Assassin'' , Nathuram Godse , - , Lennie James , ''A Number'' , Salter , - , Giles Terera , ''Blues for an Alabama Sky'' , Guy Jacobs Multiple awards and nominations Awards 4 wins * Simon Russell Beale 3 wins * Albert Finney * Ian Holm * Alec McCowen * Laurence Olivier * Paul Scofield 2 wins * Tom Courtenay * Ralph Fiennes * Michael Gambon * John G ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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George Osborne
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (born Gideon Oliver Osborne; 23 May 1971) is a former British politician and newspaper editor who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016 and as First Secretary of State from 2015 to 2016 in the Cameron government. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from 2001 to 2017. He was editor of the ''Evening Standard'' from 2017 to 2020. The son of the Osborne & Little co-founder and baronet Peter Osborne, Osborne was born in Paddington and educated at Norland Place School, Colet Court and St Paul's School before studying at Magdalen College, Oxford. After working briefly as a freelancer for ''The Daily Telegraph'', he joined the Conservative Research Department in 1994 and became head of its political section. He went on to be a special adviser to Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Douglas Hogg and work for John Major at 10 Downing Street, including on Major's unsuccessful 1997 gen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |