Evening Standard Theatre Awards for 2002

This year's London Evening Standard Theatre Awards where announced at a special presentation lunch at the Savoy Hotel on Monday 25 November 2002. An edited version will be broadcast on television on Thursday 28 November (ITV Carlton on Thursday 28 November from 12midnight to 1.00am - Thurs evening/Fri morning, check your local listings)

Best Play: A Number by Caryl Churchill at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh for the RSC at The Pit, then The Garrick

The York Realist by Peter Gill at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, then Strand

Best Actor: Simon Russell Beale for Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night at the Donmar Warehouse
Daniel Craig for A Number at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs

Tom Georgeson for Frozen at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe

Best Actress: Clare Higgins for Vincent in Brixton at the National Theatre's Cottesloe, then Wyndham's
Helen McCrory for Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse

Gwyneth Paltrow for Proof at the Donmar Warehouse

Best Director: Sam Mendes for Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night at the Donmar Warehouse
Tim Carroll for Twelfth Night at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Dominic Cooke for Plasticine at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs

Best Designer: Ian MacNeil for Plasticine and A Number at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs

Stephen Brimson Lewis for Much Ado About Nothing for the RSC at the Haymarket Theatre Royal

Bill Dudley for The Coast of Utopia at the Royal National Theatre's Olivier

Best Musical: The Full Monty at the Prince of Wales

Bombay Dreams at the Apollo Victoria

My One and Only at the Piccadilly

Outstanding Newcomer: Jake Gyllenhaal for This is Our Youth at the Garrick

Jochum Ten Haaf for Vincent in Brixton at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe, then Wyndham's

Alison Pargeter for Damsels in Distress at the Duchess

Most Promising Playwright: Vassily Sigarev for Plasticine at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs

Charlotte Eilenberg for The Lucky Ones at the Hampstead Theatre

Anthony Neilson for Stitching at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs

Special Award: Mark Rylance for the 2002 Globe Season of Cupid and Psyche