Last night, the 22nd Annual WhatsOnStage Awards took place at The Prince of Wales Theatre in London’s West End. The Awards are the only major theatre awards in the UK in which the audience are the judges across all categories, voting for their favourite productions, performers and designers.

White Light supplied the lighting for the actual ceremony, which was lit by Jack Weir, as well as sponsored the Best Lighting Design Award which was won by Tim Lutkin for his work on Back to The Future.

Back to The Future was a big winner on the evening, taking the trophy for Best New Musical, Best Supporting Performer in a Male Identifying Role in a Musical (for Hugh Coles) and Best Sound Design (for Gareth Owen).

The show that took home the most awards on the evening was the West End premiere of Disney’s Frozen; a show on which we’ve supplied the lighting. It took home seven awards, including Best Direction (for Michael Grandage), Best Musical Supervision (for Stephen Oremus), Best Choreography (for Rob Ashford), Best Video Design (for Finn Ross) and Best Graphic Design (for Bob King Creative). Christoper Oram was a double winner at the ceremony, seeing off the competition in both the Best Set Design and Best Costume Design categories.

The universally acclaimed production of Anything Goes, for which WL provided the lighting equipment, took home the Best Musical Revival gong and also saw standout cast member Carly Mercedes Dyer triumph in the Best Supporting Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Musical category.

Eddie Redmayne’s performance as The Emcee in Cabaret ensured his crowning as Best Performer in a Male Identifying Role in a Musical, while Carrie Hope Fletcher picked up her record-breaking fourth WhatsOnStage Award, this time in the titular role of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, winning the highly competitive category of Best Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Musical. WL have also supplied the lighting for Cinderella and we recently spoke to lighting designer Bruno Poet about his work the show.

Tim Lutkin

2:22 – A Ghost Story took home the coveted Best New Play prize and also saw Lily Allen receive the nod for Best Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Play and fellow castmate Jake Wood win in the Best Supporting Performer in a Male Identifying Role in a Play category.

Stage and screen favourite James McAvoy also had a triumphant evening, being awarded the Best Performer in a Male Identifying Role in a Play prize for his celebrated turn in Cyrano de Bergerac, with Jamie Lloyd’s production also being crowned Best Play Revival. This was another show that WL supplied the lighting on and features a design by Jon Clark.

Akiya Henry took home the Best Supporting Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Play trophy for her turn as Lady Macduff in the Almeida Theatre’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre continued its Herculean rise with Rent receiving the nod for Best Regional Theatre Production and Rob Madge was able to triumph in the Best Off-West End Production category with their solo show My Son’s A Queer But What Can You Do?.

Six was once again wearing the crown for the Best West End Show award, having scooped the award for the second year running.

You can find the full list of winners and nominees here.

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