The results of the TENTH ANNUAL Whatsonstage.com Awards, the “theatregoers choice”, were announced on 14th of February 2010 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
Full List: 2010 Whatsonstage.com Award Winners
Best Actress in a Play
Rachel Weisz – A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse
Best Actor in a Play
Jude Law – Hamlet, Donmar West End at Wyndham’s
Best Supporting Actress in a Play
Miriam Margolyes – Endgame at the Duchess
Best Supporting Actor in a Play
Patrick Stewart – Hamlet, RSC at the Novello
Best Actress in a Musical
Patina Miller – Sister Act at the London Palladium
Best Actor in a Musical
Rowan Atkinson – Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
Jodie Prenger – Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
Oliver Thornton – Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at the Palace
Best Solo Performance
Derren Brown – Derren Brown: Enigma at the Adelphi
Best Ensemble Performance
On the Waterfront – at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
Best Takeover in a Role
John Barrowman – La Cage aux Folles at the Playhouse
Best New Play
Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth – at the Royal Court Downstairs
Best New Comedy
Calendar Girls by Tim Firth – at the Noel Coward
Best New Musical
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert by Allan Scott & Stephan Elliott – at the Palace
Best Play Revival
A Streetcar Named Desire – at the Donmar Warehouse
Best Musical Revival
Oliver! – at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Best Shakespearean Production
Hamlet – RSC at the Novello
Best Director
Trevor Nunn – Inherit the Wind at the Old Vic & A Little Night Music at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Garrick
Best Set Designer
Brian Thomson – Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at the Palace
Best Lighting Designer
Natasha Katz – Sister Act at the London Palladium
Best Choreographer
Ross Coleman – Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at the Palace
London Newcomer of the Year
Diana Vickers – The Rise & Fall of Little Voice at the Vaudeville
Best Off-West End Production
The Pirates of Penzance – at the Union Theatre
Best Regional Production
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall – Bristol Old Vic & tour
Best West End Show
Wicked
Theatre Event of the Year
The pairing of Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Waiting for Godot