# 2014 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 2014 Whatsonstage Award winners and nominees were:
| Best New Play | Best New Musical |
| The Audience Chimerica The Events The Herd Peter and Alice | The Book of Mormon Charlie and the Chocolate Factory From Here to Eternity The Light Princess Once |
| Best Play Revival | Best Musical Revival |
| To Kill a Mockingbird Mojo The Pride Private Lives The Weir | The Sound of Music Candide Chess A Chorus Line Merrily We Roll Along |
| Best Actor in a Play | Best Actress in a Play |
| Daniel Radcliffe – The Cripple of Inishmaan Ben Whishaw – Peter and Alice James McAvoy – Macbeth Lenny Henry – Fences Rory Kinnear – Othello | Helen Mirren – The Audience Anne-Marie Duff – Strange Interlude Hayley Atwell – The Pride Suranne Jones – Beautiful Thing Tanya Moodie – Fences |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Best Actress in a Musical |
| Gavin Creel – The Book of Mormon Declan Bennett – Once Douglas Hodge – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Killian Donnelly – The Commitments Robert Lonsdale – From Here to Eternity | Scarlett Strallen – A Chorus Line and Candide Charlotte Wakefield – The Sound of Music Cynthia Erivo – The Color Purple Rosalie Craig – The Light Princess Zrinka Cvitešić – Once |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Play | Best Supporting Actress in a Play |
| David Walliams – A Midsummer Night's Dream Charles Edwards – Strange Interlude Daniel Mays – Trelawny of the Wells and Mojo Kyle Soller – Edward II Richard McCabe – The Audience | Haydn Gwynne – The Audience Cecilia Noble – The Amen Corner Claudie Blakley – Chimerica Gillian Hanna and Ingrid Craigie – The Cripple of Inishmaan Naomi Frederick – The Winslow Boy |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Musical | Best Supporting Actress in a Musical |
| Stephen Ashfield – The Book of Mormon Colman Domingo – The Scottsboro Boys James Dreyfus – Candide Nigel Planer – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Ryan Sampson – From Here to Eternity | Alexia Khadime – The Book of Mormon Amy Booth-Steel – The Light Princess Iris Roberts – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Leigh Zimmerman – A Chorus Line Sophia Nomvete – The Color Purple |
| Best Direction | Best Choreography |
| Michael Grandage – the Michael Grandage Season Jamie Lloyd – Macbeth, The Hothouse and The Pride John Tiffany – Once Maria Friedman – Merrily We Roll Along Nicholas Hytner – Othello | Peter Darling – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Casey Nicholaw – The Book of Mormon Javier de Frutos – From Here to Eternity Steven Hoggett – The Light Princess Susan Stroman – The Scottsboro Boys |
| Best Set Design | Best Lighting Design |
| Mark Thompson – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Es Devlin – Chimerica Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughan and Beatrice Minns – The Drowned Man Rae Smith – The Light Princess Tim Goodchild – Strangers on a Train | Adam Silverman – Macbeth Paule Constable – the Michael Grandage Season Peter Mumford – Ghosts Philip Gladwell – Limbo Tim Lutkin – Strangers on a Train |
| Best Original Music | Best London Newcomer of the Year |
| Once by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglova The Color Purple by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray The Hush by Matthew Herbert Lift by Craig Adams The Scottsboro Boys by John Kander | Rupert Grint – Mojo Jack Huston – Strangers on a Train Kyle Scatliffe – The Scottsboro Boys Olivia Vinall – Othello Tori Amos – The Light Princess |
| Best Off-West End Production | Best Regional Production |
| Titanic – Southwark Playhouse Adult Supervision – Park Theatre #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei – Hampstead Theatre Scenes from a Marriage – St. James Theatre A Thousand Miles of History – Bussey Building | My Fair Lady – Sheffield Crucible Macbeth – Manchester International Festival The Prodigals – Belgrade, Coventry Richard II – RSC at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon To Sir, With Love – Royal & Derngate, Northampton |
| Best New Comedy | Best Shakespearean Production |
| The Play that Goes Wrong Barking in Essex Handbagged Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense The Lyons | A Midsummer Night's Dream – Noël Coward Theatre Julius Caesar – Donmar Warehouse Macbeth – Trafalgar Studios Othello – National Theatre, Olivier The Tempest – Shakespeare's Globe |
| Best Takeover In A Role | Best West End Show |
| Carrie Hope Fletcher – Les Misérables Beverley Knight – The Bodyguard Geronimo Rauch – The Phantom of the Opera Mike Noble – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Willemijn Verkaik – Wicked | Matilda the Musical Les Misérables The Phantom of the Opera War Horse Wicked |
| Best Solo Performance | Best Ensemble Performance |
| Barry Humphries – Eat Pray Laugh! Barry Humphries’ Farewell Tour Alex Jennings – Hymn Cush Jumbo – Josephine & I Leanne Best – The Match Box Rob Crouch – Oliver Reed: Wild Thing | A Chorus Line The Drowned Man Handbagged Titanic The Weir |
| Theatre Event of the Year ||
| The National Theatre's 50th anniversary gala, broadcast live on the BBC The Lyric Hammersmith's Secret Theatre company season stars The opening of the National's Shed as a temporary performance space Punchdrunk's return to London with The Drowned Man ||