June 15, 2010

OLIVIER AWARDS – Best Play Winners

Best New Play

2011 Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
2010 The Mountaintop
2009 Black Watch by Gregory Burke
2008 A Disappearing Number
2007 Blackbird by David Harrower
2006 On The Shore Of The Wide World by Simon Stephens
2005 The History Boys by Alan Bennett
2004 The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

The BBC Award for Best New Play

2003 Vincent In Brixton by Nicholas Wright
2002 Jitney by August Wilson
2001 Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall
2000 Goodnight Children Everywhere by Richard Nelson
1999 The Weir by Conor McPherson
1998 Closer by Patrick Marber
1997 Stanley by Pam Gems
1996 Skylight by David Hare
1995 Broken Glass by Arthur Miller
1994 Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
1993 Six Degrees Of Separation by John Guare
1992 Death And The Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
1991 Dancing At Lughnasa by Brian Friel
1989/90 Racing Demon by David Hare
1988 Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
1987 Serious Money by Caryl Churchill
1986 Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
1985 Red Noses by Peter Barnes
1984 Benefactors by Michael Frayn
1983 Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
1982 Another Country by Julian Mitchell
1981 Children Of A Lesser God by Mark Medoff
1980 The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, adapted by David Edgar
1979 Betrayal by Harold Pinter
1978 Whose Life Is It Anyway? by Brian Clark
1977 The Fire That Consumes by Henry de Montherlant, English version by Vivian Cox with Bernard Miles
1976 Dear Daddy by Denis Cannan

Best Revival

2011 After the Dance directed by Thea Sharrock
2010 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
2009 The Histories
2007 The Crucible by Arthur Miller
2006 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen in a new version by Richard Eyre
2005 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
2004 Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill
2003 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov
1995 As You Like It by William Shakespeare
1994 Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
1993 An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley
1992 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
1991 Pericles by William Shakespeare

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New shows this Winter

January 1, 2010

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Winter in the West End is always a vibrant time, with countless new shows opening throughout London. This year is no exception with a bewildering array of new and classic plays, hefty revivals, Broadway musicals and a high star count.

STARS

Stars are out in force as producers pull out all of the stops to ensure that theatregoers are getting their money’s worth. Keira Knightley continues her successful run in Molière’s classic play The Misanthrope, Rupert Friend plays gay in Broadway satire The Little Dog Laughed, Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City fame gives us her Amanda in Richard Eyre’s new production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives, Jonathan Pyrce brings his acclaimed performance in Pinter’s The Caretaker to the West End, and David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker promise to give award-winning performances in Arthur Miller’s powerful play All My Sons. Plus Waiting for Godot returns to the Haymarket Theatre Royal with Ian McKellen reprising his role as Estragon.

BROADWAY

Brits are doing rather well on Broadway at the moment, but the traffic is not all one way as the Broadway productions of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Legally Blonde have opened in London to great success. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof sees James Earl Jones revive his original role as Big Daddy, joined by our very own Adrian Lester, and directed by Debbie Allen. A complete contrast is the pink and fluffy musical Legally Blonde, a success in New York, and now given a lavish new production at the Savoy Theatre starring Sheridan Smith and Duncan James. Also on its way from a sell-out, Tony-award winning success on Broadway is Hair, for which Cameron Mackintosh is bringing over the entire Broadway company.

MUSICALS

Other musical openings range from the small-scale to the gigantic – with everything in between. At one end the intimate Arts Theatre hosts comedy musical Nunsense A-Men from 25 January, clearly cashing in on the current trend for nuns (see Sister Act) but spicing it up with men playing the sisters! And at the other, Andrew Lloyd Webber aims for world domination with the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, this time set on Coney Island in New York. Also David Essex brings his fairground-set musical All The Fun Of The Fair to the Garrick Theatre featuring all of his hit songs.

NEW PLAYS

In terms of new plays, the Royal Court is dominating the drama landscape at the moment, transferring two wild successes into town: Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem starring Mark Rylance, and Lucy Prebble’s Enron, directed by man of the moment Rupert Goold.

REVIVALS

Revivals are also key to this winter’s schedule, with the RSC bringing in its production of Twelfth Night from Stratford starring Richard Wilson as Malvolio, the Old Vic resurrecting John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation starring Anthony Head and Lesley Manville, andIbsen’s Ghosts coming to the Duchess Theatre starring Lesley Sharp and Iain Glen.

KIDS

At the National they follow their War Horse and His Dark Materials successes with Mark Ravenhill’s new adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novel Nation.