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

Jodie Comer on the UK Theatre Awards 2026 announcement for the Outstanding Achievement in British Theatre Award. Image courtesy of UK Theatre
Awards

UK Theatre Awards to honour Jodie Comer for taking Prima Facie on tour

Jodie Comer is to be the first recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in British Theatre Award, which UK Theatre will present at its awards ceremony on Monday 12 October in recognition of her UK and Ireland tour of…

Jordan Luke Gage, Sadie Sink and Robert Aramayo, winners at The Stage Debut Awards 2026
Awards

Sadie Sink wins the public vote at The Stage Debut Awards 2026

Sadie Sink has been voted Best West End Debut Performer at The Stage Debut Awards 2026, the one prize of the night settled by the public, at a ceremony that spread its two acting categories across four winners.

UK Theatre Awards with Encore artwork. Image courtesy of UK Theatre
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Adrian Lester, Hadley Fraser and Michael Sheen’s Our Town among the UK Theatre Awards 2026 nominees

Adrian Lester, Hadley Fraser and Julianne Pundan are among the performers in contention at the UK Theatre Awards 2026, whose shortlists were announced today, with Nottingham Playhouse ahead of every other theatre on…

Winners and nominees at The Stage Debut Awards 2025 ceremony. Photo by David Monteith-Hodge / Photographise
Awards

Sadie Sink, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes among The Stage Debut Awards 2026 nominees

The shortlist for The Stage Debut Awards 2026, in association with Netflix, has been announced, with Sadie Sink, Noah Jupe, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes among those recognised for breakthrough work on and off…

Whatsonstage Awards
WhatsOnStage Awards

27th WhatsOnStage Awards to return to the London Palladium in February 2027

The 27th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards will return to the London Palladium for a fourth year, with the ceremony taking place on Sunday 28 February 2027.

Cordelia Lynn, Carley Magee, Tolu Okanlawon and AJ Yi
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Playwrights '73 Awards announce their 2026 cohort of writers

Cordelia Lynn, Carley Magee, Tolu Okanlawon and AJ Yi have been named the recipients of the 2026 Playwrights '73 bursaries, each receiving £15,000 and an 18-month attachment to a UK theatre.

Whatsonstage Awards
WhatsOnStage Awards

Nominations Announced for the 22nd Annual Whatsonstage Awards

Gabrielle Brooks and James Graham today announced the nominations for the 22nd Annual WhatsOnStage Awards via WhatsOnStage’s social channels, the only major theatre prize-giving decided entirely by the theatregoers…

Whatsonstage Awards
WhatsOnStage Awards

Whatsonstage Awards return for their 22nd year

WhatsOnStage today announces that the 22nd Annual WhatsOnStage Awards will take place on Sunday 27 February 2022 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.

Olivier Awards 2020
Laurence Olivier Awards

Winners announced for Olivier Awards 2020 with Mastercard

The winners of the Olivier Awards 2020 with Mastercard were announced yesterday evening in a special ITV programme filmed at The London Palladium, and on Official London Theatre’s YouTube channel.