2002 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 results of the 2002 Whatsonstage Awards were:

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%

Nominations in full

Best Actress in a Play

• Victoria Hamilton, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (New Ambassadors)
• Fiona Shaw, Medea (Queen's)
• Katrin Cartlidge, Boy Gets Girl (Royal Court)
• Lia Williams, The Homecoming (Comedy)
• Lindsay Duncan, Mouth to Mouth (Royal Court/Albery) & Private Lives (Albery)
• Rachel Weisz, The Shape of Things (Almeida at King's Cross)

Best Actor in a Play

• Alan Rickman, Private Lives (Albery)
• Ben Daniels, Tales from Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse)
• Henry Goodman, Feelgood (Hampstead/Garrick)
• Jasper Britton, Japes (Haymarket)
• Paul Rudd, The Shape of Things (Almeida at King's Cross)
• Simon Russell Beale, Humble Boy (NT Cottesloe)

Best Supporting Actress in a Play

• Gemma Jones for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric)
• Emma Fielding for Private Lives (Albery)
• Julia McKenzie for The Royal Family (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
• Lucy Punch for Boy Gets Girl (Royal Court)
• Marcia Warren for Humble Boy (NT Cottesloe)
• Marjorie Yates for Star Quality (Apollo)

Best Supporting Actor in a Play

• Ned Beatty for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric)
• Denis Quilley for Humble Boy (NT Cottesloe)
• Eric Sykes for Caught in the Net (Vaudeville)
• Ian Hart for The Homecoming (Comedy)
• Ian McDiarmid for Faith Healer (Almeida)
• Phil Davis for Tales from Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse)

Best Actress in a Musical

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

Best Actor in a Musical

• Craig Purnell for Songs for a New World (Bridewell)
• Brent Barrett for Kiss Me, Kate (Victoria Palace)
• Cameron Blakely, Where's Charley? (Open Air, Regent's Park)
• Jonathan Pryce for My Fair Lady (NT Lyttelton/Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)
• Paul Keating for Closer to Heaven (Arts)
• Philip Quast for The Secret Garden (Aldwych)

Best Supporting Performance in a Musical

• Craig Purnell for The Secret Garden (Aldwych)
• Michael Beresse for Kiss Me, Kate (Victoria Palace)
• Nancy Anderson for Kiss Me, Kate (Victoria Palace)
• Nicholas Le Prevost for My Fair Lady (NT Lyttelton/Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)
• Linzi Hateley for The Secret Garden (Aldwych)
• Gavin Lee for Peggy Sue Got Married (Shaftesbury)

Best Solo Performance

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

Best Ensemble Performance

• The Play What I Wrote (Wyndham's)
• Cloudstreet (NT Olivier)
• Jitney (NT Lyttelton)
• Remembrance of Things Past (NT Olivier)
• Tantalus (Barbican Theatre's BITE season)
• The Mill on the Floss (Shared Experience at the New Ambassadors)

Best New Play

• Charlotte Jones, Humble Boy (NT Cottesloe)
• August Wilson, Jitney (NT Lyttelton)
• Conor McPherson, Port Authority (New Ambassadors)
• Jonathan Harvey, Out in the Open (Hampstead)
• Neil LaBute, The Shape of Things (Almeida at King's Cross)
• Rebecca Gilman, Boy Gets Girl (Royal Court)

Best New Comedy

• Alistair Beaton, Feelgood (Hampstead/Garrick)
• Ray Cooney, Caught in the Net (Vaudeville)
• The Right Size & Eddie Braben, The Play What I Wrote (Wyndham's)
• The Right Size, Bewilderness (Lyric Hammersmith)

Best New Musical

• The Secret Garden (Aldwych)
• Closer to Heaven (Arts)
• Hello Again (Bridewell)
• One Touch of Venus (King's Head)
• Shout! (Jermyn Street Theatre)
• Songs for a New World (Bridewell)

Best Play Revival

• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (New Ambassadors)
• A Lie of the Mind (Donmar Warehouse)
• A Raisin in the Sun (Young Vic)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric)
• Private Lives (Albery)
• The Servant (Lyric Hammersmith)

Best Musical Revival

• Kiss Me, Kate (Victoria Palace)
• Lucky Stiff (Canal Café)
• My Fair Lady (NT Lyttelton/Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)
• Where's Charley? (Open Air, Regent's Park)

Best Shakespearean Production

• Love's Labours Lost (Open Air)
• A Winter's Tale (NT Olivier)
• ' This England season of History Plays (RSC at Barbican/Young Vic)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Albery)
• Cymbeline (Shakespeare's Globe)
• The Tragedy of Hamlet (Young Vic)

Best Director

• Howard Davies for Private Lives (Albery)
• Ian Rickson for Mouth to Mouth (Royal Court/Albery) & Boy Gets Girl (Royal Court)
• Max Stafford-Clark for Feelgood (Hampstead/Garrick), Sliding with Suzanne (Royal Court) & Rita, Sue & Bob Too / A State Affair (Soho)
• Philip Prowse for Semi-Monde (Lyric)
• Ray Cooney for Caught in the Net (Vaudeville)
• Richard Jones for Six Characters Looking for an Author (Young Vic)

Best Set Designer

• Sue Blane for The Relapse (NT Olivier)
• Giles Cadle for The Shape of Things (Almeida at King's Cross) & Mother Clap's Molly House (NT Lyttelton)
• Jessica Curtis for Dangerous Corner (Garrick)
• Paul Brown for Platonov (Almeida at King's Cross)
• Tim Hatley for Humble Boy (NT Cottesloe) & Private Lives (Albery)
• Rae Smith for Antarctica (Lyric)

Best Choreographer

• Peter Darling, Closer to Heaven (Arts)
• Kathleen Marshall, Kiss Me, Kate (Victoria Palace)
• Matthew Bourne, My Fair Lady (NT Lyttelton)
• Todd Twala, Umoja (Shaftesbury)

London Newcomer of the Year

• Emily Blunt (actress) for The Royal Family (Haymarket)
• Benjamin Davies (actor) in F***ing Games (Royal Court Upstairs)
• Chris Chibnall (playwright) for Kiss Me Like You Mean It (Soho)
• Gregory Burke (playwright) for Gagarin Way (NT Cottesloe)
• Katie Foster-Barnes (actress) in Dangerous Corner (Garrick)
• Laurie Sansom (director) for Dangerous Corner (Garrick)

Top Turkey of 2002

• All You Need is Love (Queen's)
• God Only Knows (Vaudeville)
• King Stag (BITE, Barbican)
• Over the Moon (Old Vic)
• Under the Doctor (Comedy)
• Ute Lemper's Naughty Baby (Savoy)