The nominations for the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards have been introduced, overlaying a variety of theatre going again to openings from final August to earlier this month.
Best design
Tom Scutt, Cabaret on the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre)
Es Devlin, A Number (Old Vic) and The Crucible (National Theatre)
Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughan and Beatrice Minns for The Burnt City (One Cartridge Place)
Lael Jellinek and Grace Laubacher, Oklahoma! (Young Vic Theatre)
Tim Hatley, Back to the Future (Adelphi)/Life of Pi (Wyndham’s Theatre – with Finn Caldwell)
Promising playwright
Tyrell Williams, Red Pitch (Bush Theatre)
Dipo Baruwa-Etti, An Unfinished Man (Yard Theatre)
Waleed Akhtar, The P Word (Bush Theatre)
Igor Memic, Old Bridge (Bush Theatre)
Bess Wohl, Camp Siegfried (Old Vic Theatre)
Emerging expertise
Isobel McArthur, Pride and Prejudice* (*kind of) (Criterion Theatre)
Terique Jarrett, Daddy (Almeida Theatre)
Francis Lovehall, Red Pitch (Bush Theatre)
Lizzie Annis, The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s Theatre)
Daniel Raggett, Anna X (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Best director
Jamie Lloyd, The Seagull and Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Daniel Fish and Jordan Fein, Oklahoma! (Young Vic Theatre)
Lynette Linton, Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre)
Rebecca Frecknall, Cabaret on the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse)
Katie Mitchell, Little Scratch (Hampstead Theatre)
Best musical
Oklahoma! (Young Vic Theatre)
Cabaret on the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre)
Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre)
Get Up Stand Up! (Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue)
Spring Awakening (Almeida Theatre)
Best musical efficiency
Jessie Buckley, Cabaret on the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre)
Arinzé Kene, Get Up Stand Up! (Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue)
Sutton Foster, Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre)
Patrick Vaill, Oklahoma! (Young Vic Theatre)
Marisha Wallace, Oklahoma! (Young Vic Theatre)
Best actor
Paapa Essiedu, A Number (Old Vic Theatre)
James McAvoy, Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Shubham Saraf, The Father and the Assassin (National Theatre)
Lennie James, A Number (Old Vic Theatre)
Giles Terera, Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre)
Best actress
Jodie Comer, Prima Facie (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Samira Wiley, Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre)
Indira Varma, The Seagull (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo, Blues for An Alabama Sky (National Theatre)
Sheila Atim, Constellations (Vaudeville Theatre)
Best play
Best of Enemies by James Graham (Young Vic Theatre)
Indecent by Paula Vogel (Menier Chocolate Factory)
Red Pitch by Tyrell Williams (Bush Theatre)
The Father and the Assassin by Anupama Chandrasekhar (National Theatre)
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles (Gielgud Theatre)
The 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards winners will likely be celebrated at a non-public dinner on twentieth November, and introduced within the paper the next day.