Royal Court Theatre Receives Nine Olivier Award Nominations

London's Royal Court Theatre received nine nominations this morning for the 2011 Olivier Awards, dominating the Best New Play category with three nominations for its productions of Clybourne Park, Sucker Punch and Tribes. Winners will be announced in a ceremony on March 13 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

The Royal Court production of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park received nominations for Best New Play, Best Actress in a Play (SopHie Thompson), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Sarah Goldberg) and Best Director (Dominic Cooke). A West End transfer of Clybourne Park opens tomorrow night at Wyndham's Theatre in London.

Roy Williams' Sucker Punch was nominated for Best New Play and Best Theatre Choreographer (Leon Baugh).

Nina Raine's Tribes was nominated for Best New Play and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Michelle Terry).

The Royal Court and Drum Theatre Plymouth production of The Empire was also nominated for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.

Complete nominations can be found by clicking the following link: Olivier Award Nominations.

The Royal Court Theatre is one of Europe's leading theatres and has presented new and innovative plays since 1956, including premieres by almost every leading contemporary British playwright from John Osborne's Look Back in Anger to Caryl Churchill's A Number. After 50 years, writers, directors, actors and audiences still look to the Royal Court for the classics of the future. In addition to its full-scale productions, the Royal Court also facilitates international work at grass-roots level, developing exchanges that bring young writers to Britain and sending British writers, actors and directors to work with artists around the world. The research and play development arm, The Studio, finds the most exciting and diverse range of new voices in the UK. The Studio runs play-writing groups including the Young Writers Programme; Critical Mass for Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers; and the biennial Young Writers Festival. Recent Royal Court transfers to New York include Chekhov's The Seagull in a new translation by Christopher Hampton, Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill's Drunk Enough To Say I Love You? The theatre will be represented on Broadway later this season with the transfer of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, starring Mark Rylance.