2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards
The Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on November 24, 2008. The longlist was revealed on November 4, 2008 and the shortlist on November 7, 2008.
Winners, shortlist and longlist
= winnerBest Play
Shortlisted
Black Watch by Gregory Burke Now Or Later by Christopher Shinn The Pitmen Painters by Lee HallLonglisted
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 HallSydney 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 TheatreMarguerite, Theatre Royal HaymarketStreet Scene, The Opera Group, Young Vic and Watford Palace Theatre co-productionLonglisted
La Cage Aux Folles, Menier Chocolate Factory and Playhouse TheatreEurobeat, Novello TheatreJersey Boys, Prince Edward TheatreMarguerite, Theatre Royal HaymarketStreet Scene, The Opera Group, Young Vic and Watford Palace Theatre co-productionCharles 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