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 results of the 2002 Whatsonstage Awards were:[1]
Category
Winner
% of Vote
Best Actress in a Play
Victoria Hamilton for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (New Ambassadors)
40%
Best Actor in a Play
Alan Rickman for Private Lives (Albery)
64%
Best Supporting Actress in a Play
Gemma Jones for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric)
26%
Best Supporting Actor in a Play
Ned Beatty for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric)
32%
Best Actress in a Musical
Frances Barber for Closer to Heaven (Arts)
44%
Best Actor in a Musical
Craig Purnell for Songs for a New World (Bridewell)
36%
Best Supporting Performance in a Musical
Craig Purnell for The Secret Garden (Aldwych)
52%
Best Solo Performance
Linda Marlowe in Berkoff's Women (New Ambassadors)
32%
Best Ensemble Performance
The Play What I Wrote (Wyndham's)
29%
Best New Play
Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy (NT Cottesloe)
30%
Best New Comedy
Alistair Beaton's Feelgood (Hampstead/Garrick)
36%
Best New Musical
The Secret Garden (Aldwych)
43%
Best Play Revival
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (New Ambassadors)
43%
Best Musical Revival
Kiss Me, Kate (Victoria Palace)
52%
Best Shakespearean Production
Love's Labours Lost (Open Air)
43%
Best Director
Howard Davies for Private Lives (Albery)
51%
Best Set Designer
Sue Blane for The Relapse (NT Olivier)
31%
Best Choreographer
Peter Darling for Closer to Heaven (Arts)
54%
London Newcomer of the Year
Emily Blunt for The Royal Family (Haymarket)
35%
Top Turkey of 2001
All You Need is Love (Queen's)
25%
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