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:

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 Provost 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)