# 2011 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 2011 WhatsOnStage Award nominees and winners were:
| Best New Play | Best New Musical |
| Anne Boleyn Blood & Gifts Posh Red Ruined Tribes | Legally Blonde All the Fun of the Fair Departure Lounge Fela! Flashdance Love Never Dies |
| Best Play Revival | Best Musical Revival |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof After the Dance All My Sons Deathtrap Design for Living The Real Thing | Les Misérables 25th anniversary Bells Are Ringing Hair Into the Woods Passion Sweet Charity |
| Best Actor in a Play | Best Actress in a Play |
| David Suchet for All My Sons Benedict Cumberbatch for After the Dance Matthew Macfadyen for Private Lives Rory Kinnear for Hamlet Simon Russell Beale for Deathtrap & London Assurance Toby Stephens for The Real Thing | Zoë Wanamaker for All My Sons Helen McCrory for The Late Middle Classes Jenny Jules for Ruined Kim Cattrall for Private Lives Nancy Carroll for After the Dance Tracie Bennett for End of the Rainbow |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Play | Best Supporting Actress in a Play |
| Nigel Lindsay for Broken Glass Adam James for Blood & Gifts Adrian Scarborough for After the Dance Eddie Redmayne for Red Lee Ross for Birdsong Stephen Campbell Moore for All My Sons | Tamsin Greig for The Little Dog Laughed Clare Higgins for Hamlet Emma Cunniffe for The Crucible Fiona Shaw for London Assurance Harriet Walter for Women Beware Women Jemima Rooper for All My Sons |
| Best Actor in a Musical | Best Actress in a Musical |
| Ramin Karimloo for Love Never Dies Alex Gaumond for Legally Blonde John Owen-Jones for Les Misérables 25th anniversary Mark Umbers for Sweet Charity Michael Arden for Aspects of Love Sahr Ngaujah for Fela! | Sheridan Smith for Legally Blonde Anna-Jane Casey for Bells Are Ringing Elena Roger for Passion Sierra Boggess for Love Never Dies Tamzin Outhwaite for Sweet Charity Victoria Hamilton-Barritt for Flashdance |
| Best Supporting Actor in a Musical | Best Supporting Actress in a Musical |
| Joseph Millson for Love Never Dies Chris Ellis-Stanton for Legally Blonde Dave Willetts for Aspects of Love Michael Xavier for Into the Woods Paul J Medford for Sweet Charity Tim Newman for All the Fun of the Fair | Jill Halfpenny for Legally Blonde Hannah Waddingham for Into the Woods Josefina Gabrielle for Sweet Charity Rosalie Craig for Aspects of Love Scarlett Strallen for Passion Summer Strallen for Love Never Dies |
| Best Set Designer | Best Lighting Designer |
| Joanna Scotcher for The Railway Children Bunny Christie for Men Should Weep Miriam Buether for Sucker Punch & Earthquakes in London Morgan Large for Flashdance Soutra Gilmour for Into the Woods Stephen Brimson-Lewis for An Ideal Husband | James Farncombe for Ghost Stories Neil Austin for The Prince of Homburg & Women Beware Women Paul Keogan for Novecento Paule Constable for Blasted, Posh & Love Never Dies Peter Mumford for Sucker Punch Rick Fisher for Tribes |
| Best Director | Best Choreographer |
| Timothy Sheader for Into the Woods & The Crucible Howard Davies for All My Sons, The White Guard & Blood & Gifts Nicholas Hytner for Hamlet & London Assurance Roger Michell for Rope & Tribes Rupert Goold for Earthquakes in London Thea Sharrock for After the Dance | Jerry Mitchell for Legally Blonde Arlene Phillips for Flashdance Bill T Jones for Fela! Jason Gilkison for Burn the Floor Karole Armitage for Hair Stephen Mear for Shoes & Sweet Charity |
| Best Off-West End Production | Best Regional Production |
| La Bohème A Number Bells Are Ringing The Beauty Queen of Leenane The Drowsy Chaperone The Wages of Thin | Chess Hamlet Antony & Cleopatra 42nd Street Lend Me a Tenor A Raisin in the Sun |
| Best Solo Performance | Best Ensemble Performance |
| Meera Syal for Shirley Valentine Bob Golding for Morecambe Caroline O’Connor for The Showgirl Within Hugh Hughes for The Wonderful World of Hugh Hughes Michael Gambon for Krapp’s Last Tape Simon Callow for Shakespeare – The Man from Stratford, Dr Marigold & Mr Chops | Les Misérables 25th anniversary Hair Men Should Weep Posh When We Are Married Women, Power & Politics |
| Best Takeover in a Role | Best Shakespearean Production |
| Rachel Tucker for Wicked Ben Richards for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Denise Van Outen for Legally Blonde Griff Rhys-Jones for Oliver! Kerry Ellis for Oliver! Lee Mead for Wicked | Hamlet As You Like It Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 Macbeth Measure for Measure The Comedy of Errors |
| London Newcomer of the Year | Best West End Show |
| Jonathan Groff for Deathtrap Ali Bastian & Brian Fortuna for Burn the Floor Anya Reiss for Spur of the Moment Daniel Kaluuya for Sucker Punch Jacob Casselden for Tribes Robyn Addison for The Rivals | Wicked Jersey Boys Les Miserables Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Phantom of the Opera War Horse |
| Best New Comedy ||
| Yes, Prime Minister Clybourne Park Midsummer Morecambe Really Old, Like Forty-Five The Little Dog Laughed ||