Awards

London theatre's award season, start to finish. Longlists, nominations, ceremonies and winners across the Oliviers, the WhatsOnStage Awards, the Critics' Circle Awards and the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

Awards

Hermitage Major Theater Award 2026 announcement artwork: winner Waleed Akhtar, with committee members Dominic Cooke, Lynette Linton and Tim Sheader and finalists Mohamed-Zain Dada, Azuka Oforka and Sarah Power
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Waleed Akhtar wins the $35,000 Hermitage Major Theater Award

Waleed Akhtar, the Olivier Award-winning writer of The P Word, has been named the seventh recipient of the Hermitage Major Theater Award, a $35,000 commission for a new play that is due to be workshopped in London in…

The Great Hall at Methodist Central Hall Westminster, where the first Great British Theatres Awards were presented. Photo by Colin via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Glasgow's Citizens Theatre named Great British Theatre 2026 as the first Great British Theatres Awards winners are revealed

The Citizens Theatre in Glasgow has been named Great British Theatre 2026 at the first Great British Theatres Awards, presented at Central Hall Westminster on Monday night, and Julie Hesmondhalgh went home with the…

Gina Murray and Mazz Murray hosting the 26th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards at the London Palladium. Photo by Danny Kaan
WhatsOnStage Awards

Mazz Murray and Gina Murray return to host the WhatsOnStage Awards for a third year

Mazz Murray and Gina Murray will front the 27th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards, their third ceremony in a row, when the theatregoer-voted prizes return to the London Palladium on Sunday 28 February 2027.

The Great Hall at Methodist Central Hall Westminster, venue of the Great British Theatres Awards. Photo by Colin via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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James Graham, Janie Dee and Gary Kemp among the presenters for the first Great British Theatres Awards

James Graham, Janie Dee and Gary Kemp will be among those handing out the inaugural Great British Theatres Awards at Central Hall Westminster on Monday 2 November, with Marisha Wallace hosting the evening.

Papatango New Writing Prize 2026 writers, from left: Holly Arsenault, Naomi Soneye-Thomas, Simon Jaggers, Íde Simpson and Jesse Weaver
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Holly Arsenault's Chamber wins the 2026 Papatango New Writing Prize

Holly Arsenault has won the 17th Papatango New Writing Prize with Chamber, a play about teenage musicians shut inside a soundproof rehearsal room, which Papatango and Park Theatre will stage together in the autumn of…

Liz Light of Stage2 Youth Theatre with her Arts Hero award at the Sky Arts Awards 2026
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KPPL Productions' Punch wins the theatre prize at the Sky Arts Awards 2026

KPPL Productions' Punch took the theatre prize at the Sky Arts Awards on Tuesday night, while Nancy Farino collected The Times Breakthrough Award for her first play, Fatherland, and Birmingham's Liz Light was named Arts…

George Stiles, James Lark and Anthony Drewe at the 2026 Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize. Photo by Ian Bowkett
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James Lark's Father wins the 2026 Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize

James Lark has taken the 2026 Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize with Father, a number from his musical Confessional, after twelve finalists were heard at The Other Palace on Monday night.

UK Theatre Awards with Encore artwork. Image courtesy of UK Theatre
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Theatr Clwyd leads the 2026 UK Theatre Awards as Adrian Lester and Julianne Pundan win acting prizes

Adrian Lester, Julianne Pundan and Gloria Obianyo took the acting prizes at the 2026 UK Theatre Awards, where Theatr Clwyd left with two wins and Jodie Comer collected the first Outstanding Achievement in British…

The company of Avenue Q at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Photo by Matt Crockett
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Avenue Q and War Horse among six London nominees at the 42nd Artios Awards

Six London productions, Avenue Q and the National Theatre's War Horse among them, are nominated in the London Theatre category of the 42nd Artios Awards, the Casting Society's honours for casting directors, and the…