2018 WhatsOnStage Awards explained

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 2018 Whatsonstage Awards winners and nominees were:^[1]

Best New Play	Best New Musical
*The Ferryman* Gloria Ink Labour of Love Oslo	*Everybody's Talking About Jamie* Bat Out of Hell The Musical Cilla the Musical The Band Young Frankenstein
Best Play Revival	Best Musical Revival
*Hamlet* Angels in America Don Juan in Soho Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Witness for the Prosecution	*42nd Street* Fiddler on the Roof Five Guys Named Moe Follies Hair
Best Actor in a Play	Best Actress in a Play
David Tennant for Don Juan in Soho Bryan Cranston for Network Martin Freeman for Labour of Love Andrew Garfield for Angels in America Andrew Scott for Hamlet	Olivia Colman for Mosquitoes Eve Best for Love In Idleness Natalie Dormer for Venus in Fur Tamsin Greig for Labour of Love Imelda Staunton for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Actor in a Musical	Best Actress in a Musical
*John McCrea for Everybody's Talking About Jamie* Hadley Fraser for Young Frankenstein Tom Lister for 42nd Street Danny Mac for Sunset Boulevard	Carrie Hope Fletcher for The Addams Family Christina Bennington for Bat Out of Hell Janie Dee for Follies Ria Jones for Sunset Boulevard Josie Walker for Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Best Supporting Actor in a Play	Best Supporting Actress in a Play
Fra Fee for The Ferryman Nathan Lane for Angels in America Peter Polycarpou for Oslo Adrian Scarborough for Don Juan in Soho Nathan Stewart-Jarrett for Angels in America	Juliet Stevenson for Hamlet Sheila Atim for Girl from the North Country Jessica Brown Findlay for Hamlet Denise Gough for Angels in America Imogen Poots for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical	Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
Ross Noble for Young Frankenstein Rob Fowler for Bat Out of Hell Chris Howell for 42nd Street Dex Lee for Five Guys Named Moe George Sampson for Our House	Lucie Shorthouse for Everybody's Talking About Jamie Tracie Bennett for Follies Clare Halse for 42nd Street Zoe Rainey for An American in Paris Danielle Steers for Bat Out of Hell
Best Direction	Best Choreography
Sam Mendes for The Ferryman Dominic Cooke for Follies Marianne Elliot for Angels in America Robert Icke for Hamlet Jay Scheib for Bat Out of Hell	Randy Skinner for 42nd Street Fabian Aloise for Our House Drew McOnie for On the Town Christopher Wheeldon for An American in Paris Andrew Wright for Five Guys Named Moe
Best Set Design	Best Costume Design
Douglas W Schmidt for 42nd Street Jon Bausor for Bat Out of Hell Bunny Christie for Ink Bob Crowley for An American in Paris Vicki Mortimer for Follies	Roger Kirk for 42nd Street Bob Crowley for An American in Paris Gary McCann for La Cage aux Folles Peter McKintosh for On the Town Vicki Mortimer for Follies
Best Lighting Design	Best Video Design
Patrick Woodroffe for Bat Out of Hell Paule Constable for Angels in America Paule Constable for Follies Natasha Katz for An American in Paris Peter Mumford for 42nd Street	59 Productions for An American in Paris Duncan McLean for Big Fish Duncan McLean for Labour of Love Tal Yarden for Hamlet Tal Yarden for Network
Best Off-West End Production	Best Regional Production
*Hair* La Ronde The Wild Party Working Yank!	*Sunset Boulevard* Our House The Addams Family The Band The Hypocrite
Best Original Cast Recording	Best Show Poster
*Les Misérables* Dear Evan Hansen Dreamgirls Girl from the North Country Hamilton	*Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* Cats Hamilton The Phantom of the Opera Wicked
Best West End Show
*Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* Kinky Boots Les Misérables The Phantom of the Opera Wicked
Equity Award for Services to Theatre Society Special Award
Sonia Friedman

Notes and References

Web site: Winners of the 18th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards announced: David Tennant and Olivia Colman win WhatsOnStage. www.whatsonstage.com. en-GB. 2019-02-03.