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2014 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 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 2014 Whatsonstage Award winners and nominees were:
| Best New Play | Best New Musical |
|---|---|
| The Audience | |
| Chimerica | |
| The Events | |
| The Herd | |
| Peter and Alice | The Book of Mormon |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |
| From Here to Eternity | |
| The Light Princess | |
| Once | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | |
| Mojo | |
| The Pride | |
| Private Lives | |
| The Weir | The Sound of Music |
| Candide | |
| Chess | |
| A Chorus Line | |
| Merrily We Roll Along | |
| Daniel Radcliffe – The Cripple of Inishmaan | |
| Ben Whishaw – Peter and Alice | |
| James McAvoy – Macbeth | |
| Lenny Henry – Fences | |
| Rory Kinnear – Othello | Helen Mirren – The Audience |
| Anne-Marie Duff – Strange Interlude | |
| Hayley Atwell – The Pride | |
| Suranne Jones – Beautiful Thing | |
| Tanya Moodie – Fences | |
| Gavin Creel – The Book of Mormon | |
| Declan Bennett – Once | |
| Douglas Hodge – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |
| Killian Donnelly – The Commitments | |
| Robert Lonsdale – From Here to Eternity | Scarlett Strallen – A Chorus Line and Candide |
| Charlotte Wakefield – The Sound of Music | |
| Cynthia Erivo – The Color Purple | |
| Rosalie Craig – The Light Princess | |
| Zrinka Cvitešić – Once | |
| David Walliams – A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| Charles Edwards – Strange Interlude | |
| Daniel Mays – Trelawny of the Wells and Mojo | |
| Kyle Soller – Edward II | |
| Richard McCabe – The Audience | Haydn Gwynne – The Audience |
| Cecilia Noble – The Amen Corner | |
| Claudie Blakley – Chimerica | |
| Gillian Hanna and Ingrid Craigie – The Cripple of Inishmaan | |
| Naomi Frederick – The Winslow Boy | |
| Stephen Ashfield – The Book of Mormon | |
| Colman Domingo – The Scottsboro Boys | |
| James Dreyfus – Candide | |
| Nigel Planer – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |
| Ryan Sampson – From Here to Eternity | Alexia Khadime – The Book of Mormon |
| Amy Booth-Steel – The Light Princess | |
| Iris Roberts – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |
| Leigh Zimmerman – A Chorus Line | |
| Sophia Nomvete – The Color Purple | |
| Michael Grandage – the Michael Grandage Season | |
| Jamie Lloyd – Macbeth, The Hothouse and The Pride | |
| John Tiffany – Once | |
| Maria Friedman – Merrily We Roll Along | |
| Nicholas Hytner – Othello | Peter Darling – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| Casey Nicholaw – The Book of Mormon | |
| Javier de Frutos – From Here to Eternity | |
| Steven Hoggett – The Light Princess | |
| Susan Stroman – The Scottsboro Boys | |
| Mark Thompson – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |
| Es Devlin – Chimerica | |
| Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughan and Beatrice Minns – The Drowned Man | |
| Rae Smith – The Light Princess | |
| Tim Goodchild – Strangers on a Train | Adam Silverman – Macbeth |
| Paule Constable – the Michael Grandage Season | |
| Peter Mumford – Ghosts | |
| Philip Gladwell – Limbo | |
| Tim Lutkin – Strangers on a Train | |
| Once by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglova | |
| The Color Purple by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray | |
| The Hush by Matthew Herbert | |
| Lift by Craig Adams | |
| The Scottsboro Boys by John Kander | Rupert Grint – Mojo |
| Jack Huston – Strangers on a Train | |
| Kyle Scatliffe – The Scottsboro Boys | |
| Olivia Vinall – Othello | |
| Tori Amos – The Light Princess | |
| Titanic – Southwark Playhouse | |
| Adult Supervision – Park Theatre | |
| #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei – Hampstead Theatre | |
| Scenes from a Marriage – St. James Theatre | |
| A Thousand Miles of History – Bussey Building | My Fair Lady – Sheffield Crucible |
| Macbeth – Manchester International Festival | |
| The Prodigals – Belgrade, Coventry | |
| Richard II – RSC at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon | |
| To Sir, With Love – Royal & Derngate, Northampton | |
| The Play that Goes Wrong | |
| Barking in Essex | |
| Handbagged | |
| Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense | |
| The Lyons | A Midsummer Night's Dream – Noël Coward Theatre |
| Julius Caesar – Donmar Warehouse | |
| Macbeth – Trafalgar Studios | |
| Othello – National Theatre, Olivier | |
| The Tempest – Shakespeare's Globe | |
| Carrie Hope Fletcher – Les Misérables | |
| Beverley Knight – The Bodyguard | |
| Geronimo Rauch – The Phantom of the Opera | |
| Mike Noble – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | |
| Willemijn Verkaik – Wicked | Matilda the Musical |
| Les Misérables | |
| The Phantom of the Opera | |
| War Horse | |
| Wicked | |
| Barry Humphries – Eat Pray Laugh! Barry Humphries’ Farewell Tour | |
| Alex Jennings – Hymn | |
| Cush Jumbo – Josephine & I | |
| Leanne Best – The Match Box | |
| Rob Crouch – Oliver Reed: Wild Thing | A Chorus Line |
| The Drowned Man | |
| Handbagged | |
| Titanic | |
| The Weir | |
| The National Theatre's 50th anniversary gala, broadcast live on the BBC | |
| The Lyric Hammersmith's Secret Theatre company season stars | |
| The opening of the National's Shed as a temporary performance space | |
| Punchdrunk's return to London with The Drowned Man |
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