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 2016 Whatsonstage Award winners and nominees were:[1][2]
Best New Play
Best New Musical
Photograph 51
Farinelli and the King
Hangmen
Oppenheimer
People, Places and Things
Kinky Boots
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Bend It Like Beckham
Elf
In the Heights
Best Play Revival
Best Musical Revival
Hamlet
Death of a Salesman
Oresteia
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Ruling Class
Gypsy
American Idiot
Cats
High Society
Mack and Mabel
Best Actor in a Play
Best Actress in a Play
Benedict Cumberbatch for Hamlet
Bradley Cooper for The Elephant Man
Alex Hassell for Henry V
James McAvoy for The Ruling Class
Mark Rylance for Farinelli and the King
Nicole Kidman for Photograph 51[3]
Rosalie Craig for As You Like It
Denise Gough for People, Places and Things
Harriet Walter for Death of a Salesman
Lia Williams for Oresteia
Best Actor in a Musical
Best Actress in a Musical
Matt Henry for Kinky Boots
Michael Ball for Mack and Mabel
Killian Donnelly for Kinky Boots
Ben Forster for Elf
Sam Mackay for In the Heights
Imelda Staunton for Gypsy
Katie Brayben for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Lily Frazer for In the Heights
Beverley Knight for Cats
Kimberley Walsh for Elf
Best Supporting Actor in a Play
Best Supporting Actress in a Play
Mark Gatiss for Three Days in the Country
Bertie Carvel for Bakkhai
Johnny Flynn for Hangmen
Ciarán Hinds for Hamlet
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith for Hamlet
Judi Dench for The Winter's Tale
Sian Brooke for Hamlet
Imogen Doel for The Importance of Being Earnest
Patsy Ferran for As You Like It
Anastasia Hille for Hamlet
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
David Bedella for In the Heights
Peter Davison for Gypsy
Jack Edwards for Mack and Mabel
Alexis Gerred for American Idiot
Lucas Rush for American Idiot
Lara Pulver for Gypsy
Jennie Dale for Elf
Victoria Hamilton-Barritt for In the Heights
Amy Lennox for Kinky Boots
Lauren Samuels for Bend It Like Beckham
Best Direction
Best Choreography
Jonathan Kent for Gypsy
Jerry Mitchell for Kinky Boots
Racky Plews for American Idiot
Luke Sheppard for In the Heights
Lyndsey Turner for Hamlet
Jerry Mitchell for Kinky Boots
Drew McOnie for In the Heights
Stephen Mear for Gypsy
Racky Plews for American Idiot
Nathan M Wright for High Society
Best Set Design
Best Lighting Design
Es Devlin for Hamlet
Sara Perks for American Idiot
David Rockwell for Kinky Boots
Takis for In the Heights
Anthony Ward for Gypsy
Jane Cox for Hamlet
Tim Deiling for American Idiot
Mark Henderson for Gypsy
Howard Hudson for In the Heights
Kenneth Posner for Kinky Boots
Best Off-West End Production
Best Regional Production
Carrie
Assassins
Grand Hotel
Shock Treatment
You Won't Succeed on Broadway If You Don't Have Any Jews
Mary Poppins
Anything Goes
Hairspray
Henry V
Mack and Mabel
Best West End Show
Les Misérables
Kinky Boots
Matilda
Miss Saigon
Wicked
Equity Award for Services to Theatre Society Special Award
Kenneth Branagh
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