2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Winners, shortlist and longlist

Best Play

Shortlisted

• Black Watch by Gregory Burke
• Now Or Later by Christopher Shinn
• The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall

  Longlisted

• Black Watch by Gregory Burke
• Days Of Significance by Roy Williams
• Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
• Never So Good by Howard Brenton
• Now Or Later by Christopher Shinn
• The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall

  Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director

Shortlisted

• Michael Boyd for The History Cycle
• Michael Grandage for Othello, The Chalk Garden, Ivanov
• John Tiffany for Black Watch

  Longlisted

• Lucy Bailey for Timon Of Athens
• Michael Boyd for The History Cycle
• Rupert Goold for Six Characters In Search Of An Author, No Man's Land, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
• Michael Grandage for Othello, The Chalk Garden, Ivanov
• Katie Mitchell for The Trojan Women
• Emma Rice for Brief Encounter
• Alan Rickman for Creditors
• John Tiffany for Black Watch

  Best Actor

Shortlisted

• Kenneth Branagh, Ivanov
• David Calder, King Lear
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, Othello

  Longlisted

• Kenneth Branagh, Ivanov
• David Calder, King Lear
• Adam Godley, Rain Man
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, Othello
• Will Keen, Waste
• Simon Russell Beale, Much Ado About Nothing
• Jonathan Slinger, Richard II/Richard III
• Kevin Spacey, Speed-The-Plow

  Best Actress

Shortlisted

• Lesley Manville, Her Naked Skin
• Margaret Tyzack, The Chalk Garden
• Penelope Wilton, The Chalk Garden

  Longlisted

• Lesley Manville, Her Naked Skin
• Helen McCrory, Rosmersholm
• Phoebe Nicholls, Waste
• Lesley Sharp, Harper Regan
• Margaret Tyzack, The Chalk Garden
• Penelope Wilton, The Chalk Garden

  Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

Shortlisted

• La Cage Aux Folles, Menier Chocolate Factory and Playhouse Theatre
• Marguerite, Theatre Royal Haymarket
• Street Scene, The Opera Group, Young Vic and Watford Palace Theatre co-production

  Longlisted

• La Cage Aux Folles, Menier Chocolate Factory and Playhouse Theatre
• Eurobeat, Novello Theatre
• Jersey Boys, Prince Edward Theatre
• Marguerite, Theatre Royal Haymarket
• Street Scene, The Opera Group, Young Vic and Watford Palace Theatre co-production

  Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

Shortlisted

• Tarell Alvin McCraney, Brothers Size and In the Red and Brown Water
• Anupama Chandrasekhar, Free Outgoing - Runner up
• Bola Agbaje, Gone Too Far! - Runner up