2002 WhatsOnStage Awards

Nominations in full

Best Actress in a Play

• Victoria Hamilton, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
• Fiona Shaw, Medea
• Katrin Cartlidge, Boy Gets Girl
• Lia Williams, The Homecoming
• Lindsay Duncan, Mouth to Mouth & Private Lives
• Rachel Weisz, ''The Shape of Things''

Best Actor in a Play

• Alan Rickman, Private Lives
• Ben Daniels, Tales from Hollywood
• Henry Goodman, Feelgood
• Jasper Britton, Japes
• Paul Rudd, The Shape of Things
• Simon Russell Beale, ''Humble Boy''

Best Supporting Actress in a Play

• Gemma Jones for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Emma Fielding for Private Lives
• Julia McKenzie for The Royal Family
• Lucy Punch for Boy Gets Girl
• Marcia Warren for Humble Boy
• Marjorie Yates for ''Star Quality''

Best Supporting Actor in a Play

• Ned Beatty for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Denis Quilley for Humble Boy
• Eric Sykes for Caught in the Net
• Ian Hart for The Homecoming
• Ian McDiarmid for Faith Healer
• Phil Davis for ''Tales from Hollywood''

Best Actress in a Musical

• Frances Barber for Closer to Heaven
• Anita-Louise Combe for Hello Again
• Golda Roshuevel for Songs for a New World
• Marin Mazzie for Kiss Me, Kate
• Ruthie Henshall for Peggy Sue Got Married
• Tracie Bennett for ''Last Song of the Nightingale''

Best Actor in a Musical

• Craig Purnell for Songs for a New World
• Brent Barrett for Kiss Me, Kate
• Cameron Blakely, Where's Charley?
• Jonathan Pryce for My Fair Lady
• Paul Keating for Closer to Heaven
• Philip Quast for ''The Secret Garden''

Best Supporting Performance in a Musical

• Craig Purnell for The Secret Garden
• Michael Beresse for Kiss Me, Kate
• Nancy Anderson for Kiss Me, Kate
• Nicholas Le Prevost for My Fair Lady
• Linzi Hateley for The Secret Garden
• Gavin Lee for ''Peggy Sue Got Married''

Best Solo Performance

• Linda Marlowe in Berkoff's Women
• Jackie Mason in The Millennium Show
• Pieter-Dirk Uys in Foreign Aids
• Thembi Mtshali in A Woman in Waiting
• Debora Weston in ''See How Beautiful I Am''

Best Ensemble Performance

• ''The Mill on the Floss''

Best New Play

• Charlotte Jones, Humble Boy
• August Wilson, Jitney
• Conor McPherson, Port Authority
• Jonathan Harvey, Out in the Open
• Neil LaBute, The Shape of Things
• Rebecca Gilman, ''Boy Gets Girl''

Best New Comedy

• Alistair Beaton, Feelgood
• Ray Cooney, Caught in the Net
• The Right Size & Eddie Braben, The Play What I Wrote
• The Right Size, ''Bewilderness''

Best New Musical

• ''Songs for a New World''

Best Play Revival

• ''The Servant''

Best Musical Revival

• ''Where's Charley?''

Best Shakespearean Production

• ' This England season of History Plays A Midsummer Night's Dream Cymbeline
• ''The Tragedy of Hamlet''

Best Director

• Howard Davies for Private Lives
• Ian Rickson for Mouth to Mouth & Boy Gets Girl
• Max Stafford-Clark for Feelgood, Sliding with Suzanne & Rita, Sue & Bob Too / A State Affair
• Philip Prowse for Semi-Monde
• Ray Cooney for Caught in the Net
• Richard Jones for ''Six Characters Looking for an Author''

Best Set Designer

• Sue Blane for The Relapse
• Giles Cadle for The Shape of Things & Mother Clap's Molly House
• Jessica Curtis for Dangerous Corner
• Paul Brown for Platonov
• Tim Hatley for Humble Boy & Private Lives
• Rae Smith for ''Antarctica''

Best Choreographer

• Peter Darling, Closer to Heaven
• Kathleen Marshall, Kiss Me, Kate
• Matthew Bourne, My Fair Lady
• Todd Twala, ''Umoja''

London Newcomer of the Year

• Emily Blunt for The Royal Family
• Benjamin Davies in F***ing Games
• Chris Chibnall for Kiss Me Like You Mean It
• Gregory Burke for Gagarin Way
• Katie Foster-Barnes in Dangerous Corner
• Laurie Sansom for ''Dangerous Corner''

Top Turkey of 2002

• All You Need is Love
• God Only Knows
• King Stag
• Over the Moon
• Under the Doctor
• Ute Lemper's Naughty Baby