{"id":46922,"date":"2025-04-08T09:51:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/?p=46922"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:51:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:51:33","slug":"golden-nights-royal-albert-hall-crowns-the-theatre-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/golden-nights-royal-albert-hall-crowns-the-theatre-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Nights: Royal Albert Hall crowns the theatre season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The award for Best New Play<\/strong> went to Mark Rosenblatt<\/strong> for Giant<\/em> at the Royal Court Theatre<\/strong>. Meanwhile, the sold-out The Fear of 13<\/em> by Lindsey Ferrentino<\/strong> (we wrote about the Donmar Warehouse production here<\/u><\/a>) left empty-handed, as did Shifters<\/em> and the much-discussed The Years<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, The Years<\/em> wasn\u2019t entirely overlooked \u2013 Eline Arbo<\/strong> won for Best Director<\/strong>, and Romola Garai<\/strong> picked up Best Supporting Actress<\/strong> for her role in the production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it was Giant<\/em> that truly swept the evening: in addition to Best Play<\/strong>, John Lithgow<\/strong> won Best Actor<\/strong>, and Elliot Levey<\/strong>took home Best Supporting Actor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oedipus<\/em> (read more<\/u><\/a>) was awarded Best Production<\/strong>, a well-earned win after a string of sold-out performances and wide-ranging praise from both audiences and critics.
Lesley Manville<\/strong> was named Actress of the Season<\/strong> for her role in Oedipus<\/em> (the category also featured Rosie Sheehy<\/strong> for Machinal<\/em> and *Indira Varma<\/em>, also in Oedipus<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/em> won Best New Musical<\/strong>, beating out MJ The Musical<\/em> and Why Am I So Single?<\/em>
<\/em>Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812<\/em> didn\u2019t go unnoticed either \u2013 Maimuna Memon<\/strong> won Best Supporting Performance<\/strong> for her role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Fiddler on the Roof<\/em> was crowned Best Revival of a Classic Musical<\/strong>, leaving contenders like Hello, Dolly!<\/em>, Oliver!<\/em>, and Starlight Express<\/em> without wins.
But Imelda Staunton<\/strong> shone through, winning Best Actress in a Musical<\/strong> for Hello, Dolly!<\/em>, while John Dagleish<\/strong> took Best Actor in a Musical<\/strong> for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night in London, the\u00a0Olivier Awards, the UK\u2019s most prestigious theatre accolades, were handed out at the Royal Albert Hall. The ceremony was hosted by\u00a0Billy Porter\u00a0and\u00a0Beverley Knight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":46908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"type_post":[184],"column":[],"class_list":["post-46922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46922"},{"taxonomy":"type_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_post?post=46922"},{"taxonomy":"column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/column?post=46922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}