2009 WhatsOnStage Awards

The WhatsOnStage Awards, founded in 2001 as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, are a fan-driven set of awards organised by the theatre website WhatsOnStage.com, based on a popular vote recognising performers and productions of English theatre, with an emphasis on London's West End theatre.
The 2009 WhatsOnStage Award nominees and winners were:

Best New Play	Best New Musical
Under the Blue Sky * August: Osage County * Black Watch * Now or Later * That Face * The Pitmen Painters	Jersey Boys * Eurobeat * Imagine This * Marguerite * Never Forget * Zorro
Best Play Revival	Best Musical Revival
Ivanov, Donmar West End * Six Characters in Search of an Author * Speed the Plow * The Chalk Garden * The Norman Conquests * Waste	West Side Story * Candide * Gigi * La Cage aux Folles * Piaf * They're Playing Our Song
Best Actor in a Play	Best Actress in a Play
Kenneth Branagh for Ivanov, Donmar West End* Adam Godley for Rain Man * Chiwetel Ejiofor for Othello * Eddie Redmayne for Now or Later * Ian McDiarmid for Six Characters in Search of an Author * Kevin Spacey & Jeff Goldblum for Speed the Plow	Katy Stephens for The Histories * Deanna Dunagan for August: Osage County * Lesley Sharp for Harper Regan * Lindsay Duncan for That Face * Margaret Tyzack for The Chalk Garden * Penelope Wilton for The Chalk Garden
Best Actor in a Musical	Best Actress in a Musical
Ryan Molloy for Jersey Boys* Darius Danesh for Gone With the Wind * Douglas Hodge for La Cage aux Folles * Julian Ovenden for Marguerite * Matt Rawle for Zorro * Rolan Bell for The Harder They Come	Sofia Escobar for West Side Story * Connie Fisher for They're Playing Our Song * Elena Roger for Piaf * Leila Benn Harris for Imagine This * Lisa O'Hare for Gigi * Ruthie Henshall for Marguerite
Best Supporting Actor in a Play	Best Supporting Actress in a Play
Tom Hiddleston for Othello & Ivanov, Donmar West End* Douglas Henshall for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot * Kevin McNally for Ivanov, Donmar West End * Malcolm Sinclair for Rosmersholm * Paul Ready for Major Barbara * Pip Carter for Gethsemane	Sophie Thompson for The Female of the Species * Barbara Jefford for Pygmalion * Denise Gough for Six Characters in Search of an Author * Michelle Terry for The Man Who Had All the Luck * Phoebe Nicholls for The Vortex & Waste * Susan Engel for Her Naked Skin
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical	Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
Stephen Ashfield for Jersey Boys * Alexander Hanson for Marguerite * Jason Pennycooke for La Cage aux Folles * Luke Evans for Piaf * Michael Matus for Imagine This * Nick Cavaliere for Zorro	Tracie Bennett for La Cage aux Folles * Lesli Margherita for Zorro * Linda Thorson for Gigi * Lorraine Bruce for Piaf * Natasha Yvette Williams for Gone With the Wind * Sophia Ragavelas for Never Forget
Best Direction	Best Lighting Designer
Michael Grandage for Othello, The Chalk Garden &Ivanov * Emma Rice for Brief Encounter * Matthew Warchus for The Norman Conquests * Michael Boyd for The Histories * Rupert Goold for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, * Six Characters in Search of an Author & No Man's Land * Samuel West for Dealer's Choice & Waste	Mark Henderson for Under the Blue Sky, Marguerite & The Sea* Chahine Yavroyan for Relocated & Wig Out! * Jean Kalman for The Year of Magical Thinking & In the Red & Brown Water * Malcolm Rippeth for Brief Encounter & Six Characters in Search of an Author * Neil Austin for Piaf, No Man's Land & Oedipus * Paule Constable for Othello, The Chalk Garden & Ivanov
Best Set Design	Best Choreographer
Klara Zieglerova for Jersey Boys * Eugene Lee for Imagine This * Miriam Buether for In the Red & Brown Water * Neil Murray for Brief Encounter * Rob Howell for The Norman Conquests * Tom Piper for The Histories	Lynne Page for La Cage aux Folles * Akram Khan for in-i * Karen Bruce for Never Forget * Kate Prince + ZooNation for Into the Hoods * Matthew Bourne for Dorian Gray * Rafael Amargo for Zorro
Best Off-West End Production	Best Regional Production
Come Dancing * An Enemy of the People * Piranha Heights * Plague Over England * The Vaclav Havel season * The White Devil	Hamlet * Calendar Girls * On the Waterfront * Once Upon a Time * The Glass Menagerie * The Music Man
Best Solo Performance	Best Ensemble Performance
Eddie Izzard for Stripped* David Bradley for The Quiz * Derren Brown for Derren Brown Mindreader: An Evening of Wonders * Maria Friedman for Maria Friedman: Re-Arranged * Nadine Marshall for Random * Vanessa Redgrave for The Year of Magical Thinking	Into the Hoods * August: Osage County * Black Watch * Brief Encounter * The Histories * The Norman Conquests
Best Takeover in a Role	Best Shakespearean Production
Daniel Boys for Avenue Q * Denis Lawson for La Cage aux Folles * Kelly Brook for Fat Pig * Rachel Tucker for We Will Rock You * Summer Strallen for The Sound of Music * Suzanne Shaw for Chicago	Othello * A Midsummer Night's Dream * Much Ado About Nothing * The Histories * The Merry Wives of Windsor * Twelfth Night
London Newcomer of the Year	Best New Comedy
Josh Hartnett for Rain Man * Ella Smith for Fat Pig * George Sampson for Into the Hoods * Joseph Mawle for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot * Ray Davies for Come Dancing * Tarell Alvin McCraney for In the Red & Brown Water	Fat Pig * God of Carnage * Lifecoach * The Female of the Species * The Walworth Farce * Well