# 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:
| Category | Winner | % of Vote |
| Best Actress in a Play | Victoria Hamilton for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (New Ambassadors) | 40% |
| Best Actor in a Play | Alan Rickman for Private Lives (Albery) | 64% |
| Best Supporting Actress in a Play | Gemma Jones for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric) | 26% |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Play | Ned Beatty for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric) | 32% |
| Best Actress in a Musical | Frances Barber for Closer to Heaven (Arts) | 44% |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Craig Purnell for Songs for a New World (Bridewell) | 36% |
| Best Supporting Performance in a Musical | Craig Purnell for The Secret Garden (Aldwych) | 52% |
| Best Solo Performance | Linda Marlowe in Berkoff's Women (New Ambassadors) | 32% |
| Best Ensemble Performance | The Play What I Wrote (Wyndham's) | 29% |
| Best New Play | Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy (NT Cottesloe) | 30% |
| Best New Comedy | Alistair Beaton's Feelgood (Hampstead/Garrick) | 36% |
| Best New Musical | The Secret Garden (Aldwych) | 43% |
| Best Play Revival | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (New Ambassadors) | 43% |
| Best Musical Revival | Kiss Me, Kate (Victoria Palace) | 52% |
| Best Shakespearean Production | Love's Labours Lost (Open Air) | 43% |
| Best Director | Howard Davies for Private Lives (Albery) | 51% |
| Best Set Designer | Sue Blane for The Relapse (NT Olivier) | 31% |
| Best Choreographer | Peter Darling for Closer to Heaven (Arts) | 54% |
| London Newcomer of the Year | Emily Blunt for The Royal Family (Haymarket) | 35% |
| Top Turkey of 2001 | All You Need is Love (Queen's) | 25% |

## Nominations in full
### 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 Prevost 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)