Overview
- Hosted in London on Sunday by The Standard’s proprietor Evgeny (Lord) Lebedev, the winners dinner recognized productions that opened between Oct. 26, 2024 and Oct. 25, 2025 under a panel of leading critics.
- Cate Blanchett won Best Actress in a Play for The Seagull and received a special Lebedev citation for breathing new life into Chekhov’s classic.
- Rachel Zegler earned Best Musical Performance for her turn as Eva Perón in Evita, while Hayley Atwell took the Natasha Richardson Award for Much Ado About Nothing.
- Brendan Gleeson was named Best Actor for The Weir, and Sir Stephen Fry received a special award honoring his decades of stage and screen comedy.
- Other honors included Best Play to James Graham’s Punch, Best Director to Omar Elerian for Rhinoceros, Best Musical to Evita, and Best Design to Stereophonic’s David Zinn and Enver Chakartash.