2010 London Evening Standard Awards Shortlist Announced

Broadway vet Sheridan Smith, television star David Suchet and former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm have all been shortlisted for 2010 Evening Standard Theatre Awards. The Royal Court and the National Theatre dominate this year’s shortlist with 11 and 10 nods respectively, and Cameron Mackintosh’s 25th anniversary production of Les Miserables has earned a spot on the Best Musical shortlist. The prestigious awards, which are chosen by a panel of theater critics from the UK's top publications, will be handed out at the Savoy Hotel on November 28.

The complete list of contenders is as follows:

Best Actor
Roger Allam, Henry IV Parts One And Two
Rory Kinnear, Measure For Measure
David Suchet, All My Sons

The Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress
Nancy Carroll, After the Dance
Elena Roger, Passion
Sheridan Smith, Legally Blonde
Sophie Thompson, Clybourne Park

Best Play
Mike Bartlett, Cock
Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park
Roy Williams, Sucker Punch

The Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical
Legally Blonde
Les Misérables
Passion

Best Director
Howard Davies, The White Guard
Nicholas Hytner, The Habit of Art, London Assurance, Hamlet
Laurie Sansom, Beyond the Horizon, Spring Storm
Thea Sharrock, After the Dance

Best Design
Miriam Buether, Sucker Punch, Earthquakes in London
Bunny Christie, The White Guard
Christopher Oram, Passion /Red

The Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright
DC Moore, The Empire
Nick Payne, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, Wanderlust
Anya Reiss, Spur Of The Moment

The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer
Melanie Chisholm, Blood Brothers
Daniel Kaluuya, Sucker Punch
Isabella Laughland, Wanderlust
Shannon Tarbet, Spur Of The Moment
Kate Bond And Morgan Lloyd, creators of You Me Bum Bum Train