'Hairspray' & Stewart's 'Macbeth' Top Evening Standard Awards

West End's production of Hairspray and Rupert Goold's Macbeth were among the top winners at the 2007 Evening Standard Awards Ceremony, held Tuesday November 27; Richard Wilson hosted.

Hairspray received the Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical. Goold's Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart (set to transfer to BAM in February 2008) took home both Best Actor and Best Director awards.

EVENING STANDARD 2007 THEATRE AWARD WINNERS

Best Play
A Disappearing Number - Simon McBurney and Complicite (Barbican)

Best Actor
Patrick Stewart - Macbeth (Chichester Festival, then Gielgud)

Best Actress
Anne-Marie Duff - Saint Joan (Olivier, National)

The Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director
Rupert Goold - Macbeth (Chichester Festival, then Gielgud)

The Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical
Hairspray - (Shaftesbury Theatre)

Best Design
Rae Smith and the Handspring Puppet Company - War Horse (Olivier, National)

The Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright
Polly Stenham - That Face (Royal Court Upstairs)

The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer
Stephen Wright - Dealer's Choice/Don Juan in Soho (Menier Chocolate Factory/Donmar Warehouse)

Special Award
Stephen Tompkins for innovative theatre architecture