{"id":3546,"date":"2022-10-21T14:07:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/21\/the-2022-london-evening-standard-theatre-awards-shortlist-announced-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T14:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:07:17","slug":"the-2022-london-evening-standard-theatre-awards-shortlist-introduced-there-ought-to-be-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/21\/the-2022-london-evening-standard-theatre-awards-shortlist-introduced-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2022 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards \u2013 Shortlist introduced \u2013 There Ought To Be Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>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.<\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Best design<\/span><\/strong><br \/>Tom Scutt, <em>Cabaret<\/em> on the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre)<br \/>Es Devlin, <em>A Number<\/em> (Old Vic) and <em>The Crucible<\/em> (National Theatre)<br \/>Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughan and Beatrice Minns for <em>The Burnt City<\/em> (One Cartridge Place)<br \/>Lael Jellinek and Grace Laubacher, <em>Oklahoma!<\/em> (Young Vic Theatre)<br \/>Tim Hatley, <em>Back to the Future<\/em> (Adelphi)\/<em>Life of Pi<\/em> (Wyndham\u2019s Theatre \u2013 with Finn Caldwell)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Promising playwright<\/strong><\/span><br \/>Tyrell Williams, <em>Red Pitch<\/em> (Bush Theatre)<br \/>Dipo Baruwa-Etti, <em>An Unfinished Man<\/em> (Yard Theatre)<br \/>Waleed Akhtar, <em>The P Word<\/em> (Bush Theatre)<br \/>Igor Memic, <em>Old Bridge<\/em> (Bush Theatre)<br \/>Bess Wohl, <em>Camp Siegfried<\/em> (Old Vic Theatre)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Emerging expertise<\/strong><\/span><br \/>Isobel McArthur, <em>Pride and Prejudice* (*kind of)<\/em> (Criterion Theatre)<br \/>Terique Jarrett, <em>Daddy<\/em> (Almeida Theatre)<br \/>Francis Lovehall,<em> Red Pitch<\/em> (Bush Theatre)<br \/>Lizzie Annis, <em>The Glass Menagerie<\/em> (Duke of York\u2019s Theatre)<br \/>Daniel Raggett, <em>Anna X<\/em> (Harold Pinter Theatre)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Best director<\/strong><\/span><br \/>Jamie Lloyd,<em> The Seagull<\/em> and <em>Cyrano de Bergerac<\/em> (Harold Pinter Theatre)<br \/>Daniel Fish and Jordan Fein, <em>Oklahoma!<\/em> (Young Vic Theatre)<br \/>Lynette Linton, <em>Blues for an Alabama Sky<\/em> (National Theatre)<br \/>Rebecca Frecknall, <em>Cabaret<\/em> on the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse)<br \/>Katie Mitchell, <em>Little Scratch<\/em> (Hampstead Theatre)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Best musical<\/strong><\/span><br \/><em>Oklahoma!<\/em> (Young Vic Theatre)<br \/><em>Cabaret<\/em> on the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre)<br \/><em>Anything Goes<\/em> (Barbican Theatre)<br \/><em>Get Up Stand Up!<\/em> (Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue)<br \/><em>Spring Awakening<\/em> (Almeida Theatre)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Best musical efficiency<\/strong><\/span><br \/>Jessie Buckley, <em>Cabaret<\/em> on the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre)<br \/>Arinz\u00e9 Kene, <em>Get Up Stand Up!<\/em> (Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue)<br \/>Sutton Foster, <em>Anything Goes<\/em> (Barbican Theatre)<br \/>Patrick Vaill, <em>Oklahoma!<\/em> (Young Vic Theatre)<br \/>Marisha Wallace, <em>Oklahoma!<\/em> (Young Vic Theatre)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Best actor<\/strong><\/span><br \/>Paapa Essiedu,<em> A Number<\/em> (Old Vic Theatre)<br \/>James McAvoy, <em>Cyrano de Bergerac<\/em> (Harold Pinter Theatre)<br \/>Shubham Saraf, <em>The Father and the Assassin<\/em> (National Theatre)<br \/>Lennie James, <em>A Number<\/em> (Old Vic Theatre)<br \/>Giles Terera, <em>Blues for an Alabama Sky<\/em> (National Theatre)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Best actress<\/strong><\/span><br \/>Jodie Comer, <em>Prima Facie<\/em> (Harold Pinter Theatre)<br \/>Samira Wiley, <em>Blues for an Alabama Sky<\/em> (National Theatre)<br \/>Indira Varma, <em>The Seagull<\/em> (Harold Pinter Theatre)<br \/>Ronk\u1eb9 Ad\u00e9kolu\u1eb9jo, <em>Blues for An Alabama Sky<\/em> (National Theatre)<br \/>Sheila Atim, <em>Constellations<\/em> (Vaudeville Theatre)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Best play<\/strong><\/span><br \/><em>Best of Enemies<\/em> by James Graham (Young Vic Theatre)<br \/><em>Indecent<\/em> by Paula Vogel (Menier Chocolate Factory)<br \/><em>Red Pitch<\/em> by Tyrell Williams (Bush Theatre)<br \/><em>The Father and the Assassin<\/em> by Anupama Chandrasekhar (National Theatre)<br \/><em>The Mirror and the Light<\/em> by Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles (Gielgud Theatre)<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] 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 designTom 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}