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Spend your Theatre Tokens at UK Theatre Award nominees

The nominations for this year's UK Theatre Awards, sponsored by Encore, have been announced, celebrating excellence on and off stage throughout the UK.

The awards spotlight the achievements of theatres across the country. Click on the theatre links below to find out how to spend your tokens there and see what shows are coming up.

The Northern Ballet building
Northern Ballet have been nominated for Excellence in Touring

Theatre Tokens is a long-time supporter of the UK Theatre Awards.

This year we are proud to sponsor the Excellence in Touring Award. Among the nominees are Northern Ballet's new dance production Gentleman Jack, telling the extraordinary story of Anne Lister.

Theatr Clwyd's new adaptation of Under Milk Wood, a 1950s radio play by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, has also been nominated.

The category is completed by the East Anglian Touring Consortium's new musical Caroline, which dramatises the history of '60s pirate radio.

Theatr Clwyd
Theatr Clwyd have received three nominations

All three nominees for this year's Most Welcoming Theatre Award are part of the Theatre Tokens scheme.

That means you can use your Theatre Tokens to find out what makes Nottingham Playhouse, Theatre Clwyd and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds award-worthy and so welcoming.

Nottingham Playhouse have received four nominations across on and off stage categories, the most of any venue this year. They are closely followed by Theatr Clwyd, which has three.

This year's ceremony will take place on Monday 12 October, hosted by La Voix.

Nottingham Playhouse
Nottingham Playhouse has received the most nominations of any theatre, with four

The nominees in full

Best Musical Production sponsored by Tysers Live 

Best New Play sponsored by Ecclesiastical Insurance

  • Black Sheep, a curious directive production at Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds & New Wolsey Theatre 

  • The Last Stand Of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse, a Nottingham Playhouse, Eleanor Lloyd Productions & Kate Pakenham Productions co-production

  • The Manningtree Witches, a Mercury Original in association with Frantic Assembly, supported by Eleanor Lloyd Productions, Eilene Davidson Productions and Mark Gordon Pictures

Best Play Revival 

  • Our Town, a Rose Theatre & Welsh National Theatre co-production

  • Road, a Royal Exchange Theatre production 

  • Small Island, a Leeds Playhouse, Birmingham Rep & Nottingham Playhouse co-production in association with Actors Touring Company

Best Director 

  • Abigail Graham for Living, a Sheffield Theatres production

  • Emma Jordan for The Human Voice, a Prime Cut Productions production at Lyric Theatre Belfast

  • Tom Littler for Love’s Labour’s Lost & Much Ado About Nothing, a Guildford Shakespeare Company & Orange Tree Theatre co-production

Best Performance in a Musical 

  • Hadley Fraser for My Fair Lady, a Chichester Festival Theatre production

  • Annette McLaughlin for Follies, a Northern Ireland Opera production at Grand Opera House, Belfast

  • Julianne Pundan for Miss Saigon, a Cameron Mackintosh production in association with Michael Harrison

Best Performance in a Play 

  • Isis Hainsworth for Measure For Measure, a Royal Shakespeare Company production

  • Adrian Lester for Cyrano De Bergerac, a Royal Shakespeare Company production

  • Katie Redford & Benedict Salter for Scenes From A Friendship, a Nottingham Playhouse production

Best Supporting Performance (in a Musical or Play) 

  • Ash Hunter for The Meat Kings! (Inc.) Of Brooklyn Heights, a Papatango Theatre Company & Park Theatre co-production

  • Lydia Louise for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a Watermill Theatre production

  • Gloria Obianyo for As You Like It, as part of the Ralph Fiennes / Theatre Royal Bath season

Best Design 

  • Jenny Booth (Set & Costume Design), Garry Boyle (Sound Design), Daniel Hughes (Creative Captioning) & Emma Jones (Lighting Design) for The Singer, a Dundee Rep Theatre & Solar Bear co-production in association with Aberdeen Performing Arts 

  • Ceci Calf (Set & Costume Design) for The Assassination Of Margaret Thatcher, a Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse production

  • Terry Parsons (Set Design) for Jack And Sarah, a The Mill at Sonning production

Best Show for Children & Young People 

  • Beauty And The Beast, a Citizens Theatre production

  • No Such Thing As Wolves, a Birmingham Hippodrome production

  • Treasure Island, a Bristol Old Vic production

Achievement in Dance 

  • National Dance Company Wales for Surge | Gwefr 

  • Scottish Ballet for Mary, Queen of Scots

  • Yorke Dance Project for Modern Milestones 

Achievement in Opera 

  • English Touring Opera for the ambition and breadth of their programming in venues across the country

  • Jack Furness for his direction of The Flying Dutchman by Welsh National Opera

  • Scottish Opera for their commitment to championing new work through their productions of The Galloping Cure and The Great Wave

Excellence in Arts Education 

  • Connecting For Creativity, Buxton Opera House 

  • Shine, Curve and the Randal Foundation

  • Talking Tales, Polka Theatre 

Excellence in Touring sponsored by Theatre Tokens 

  • Caroline: A New Musical, East Anglian Touring Consortium

  • Gentleman Jack, Northern Ballet

  • Under Milk Wood, Theatr Clwyd

Excellence in Inclusivity

Excellence in Sustainability 

  • Mercury Theatre

  • The Old Vic, Backstage

  • Theatr Clwyd

Excellence in Workforce Culture 

UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre sponsored by Encore 

  • Nottingham Playhouse

  • Theatr Clwyd

  • Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds

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