Olivier Awards 2025 with Mastercard

Nominations announced for Olivier Awards 2025 with Mastercard 

● Mastercard Best New Musical nominees are The Curious Case Of Benjamin  Button, MJ The Musical, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812 and Why Am I  So Single? 

● The nominees for the Piper-Heidsieck Award for Best Musical Revival are Hello,  Dolly!, Oliver! and Starlight Express, alongside Fiddler On The Roof which has  garnered the most nods with 13 total nominations 

● Giant and The Years are tied for most nominated play with 5 nominations each ● Nominees for Best Actress are Heather Agyepong, Lesley Manville, Rosie Sheehy,  Meera Syal and Indira Varma, with Manville and Varma both nominated for playing  the same role in different productions of Oedipus 

● Nominees for Best Actor include recent Oscar-winner Adrien Brody, alongside  Billy Crudup, Paapa Essiedu, John Lithgow and Mark Strong, with first-time  nominations for Brody, Crudup, Essiedu and Lithgow

The nominations for the Olivier Awards 2025 with Mastercard, British theatre’s most prestigious  honours, have been announced. The annual awards will take place on Sunday 6 April at the iconic  Royal Albert Hall, hosted by Beverley Knight and Billy Porter. A highlights package will air on ITV and Magic Radio that evening.

The competition for nominations has been intense in what has proven to be a transformative year for London theatre, marked by a rich blend of dynamic new works, innovative interpretations of  classics, and a commitment to championing diverse voices and stories. A stunning array of stars  have trod the boards, and nominees in the craft awards have showcased extraordinary innovation  and artistry.

The Mastercard Best New Musical nominees are the actor-musician led The Curious Case Of  Benjamin Button, currently playing at the Ambassadors Theatre, MJ The Musical at the Prince  Edward Theatre, Donmar Warehouse’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812, and Marlow and Moss’ Why Am I So Single?. For the Piper-Heidsieck Award for Best Musical  Revival, the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Fiddler On The Roof, which returns

later this year to the Barbican Theatre, is up against the dazzling London Palladium production of  Hello, Dolly!. Cameron Mackintosh’s reconceived Oliver!, which transferred from Chichester

Festival Theatre to the Gielgud Theatre late last year, and the new production of Andrew Lloyd  Webber’s Starlight Express, currently playing at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.

Fiddler On The Roof is this year’s most nominated production, with 13 nominations including  Best Musical Revival, the Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director (Jordan Fein), Best Actor in a  Musical (Adam Dannheisser), Best Actress in a Musical (Lara Pulver), Best Actor in a  Supporting Role in a Musical (Raphael Papo), and two nods for Best Actress in a Supporting  Role in a Musical (Liv Andrusier and Beverley Klein). The show also received nominations for

the White Light Award for Best Lighting Design (Aideen Malone), Gillian Lynne Award for Best  Theatre Choreographer (Julia Cheng), d&b audiotechnik Award for Best Sound Design (Nick  Lidster), and Outstanding Musical Contribution (Mark Aspinall), with Tom Scutt nominated for  both the Blue-i Theatre Technology Award for Best Set Design, and Best Costume Design.

Other musicals to receive multiple nominations include Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of  1812 with 6 nominations, followed by The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Oliver! with  4 nominations each. Oliver!’s creatives have had a stellar year, with Matthew Bourne receiving his 14th Olivier Award nomination with a nod for Best Theatre Choreographer, and his second for  a production of Oliver!, having been previously nominated in the same category for the 2010  revival; he has had a total of 9 previous wins, including a Special Award in 2019, making him the  most celebrated winner in the history of the Awards. Lighting designer Paule Constable receives  her 17th nomination, this year nominated for her work on Oliver! alongside Ben Jacobs; she has  had 4 previous wins.

In the musical theatre performing categories, the Best Actor in a Musical nominees are completed  by John Dagleish (for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, a decade after his win for Sunny  Afternoon), Myles Frost (MJ The Musical, 2022 Tony Award-winner for the same role), Simon  Lipkin (Oliver!) and Jamie Muscato (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812), alongside  Fiddler On The Roof’s Adam Dannheisser. The Best Actress in a Musical nominees are  Chumisa Dornford-May (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812), Lauren Drew (Titanique), Clare Foster (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button), Lara Pulver (Fiddler On The  Roof) and Imelda Staunton (Hello, Dolly!), with Lara Pulver and Imelda Staunton nominated  alongside one another following their respective wins for Gypsy in 2016. This is Imelda Staunton’s  14th nomination and her 8th in the Best Actress in a Musical category; she has had 4 wins.

Andy Nyman (Hello, Dolly!), Layton Williams (Titanique) and Tom Xander (Mean Girls) join  Raphael Papo (Fiddler On The Roof) in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical category,  with Amy Di Bartolomeo (The Devil Wears Prada) and Maimuna Memon (Natasha, Pierre &  The Great Comet Of 1812) nominated alongside Liv Andrusier and Beverley Klein (Fiddler On  The Roof) for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical.

In a strong year for plays, there are 5 nominations for The Londoner Award for Best New Play,  with nods for The Fear Of 13 at Donmar Warehouse, the Royal Court’s Giant, which returns to  play at the Harold Pinter Theatre in April, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Good Chance’s  co-production Kyoto, playing at @sohoplace until May, Bush Theatre’s Shifters, which transferred to the Duke of York’s Theatre last summer, and The Years, created at the Almeida  Theatre and currently playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

Giant and The Years are tied for most nominated play with 5 each, including Best Director nods  for Eline Arbo (The Years) and Nicholas Hytner (Giant) respectively. John Lithgow receives a  first-time Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor for his turn as Roald Dahl in Giant, whilst Elliot  Levey receives a third Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Gina McKee

receives a Best Actress in a Supporting Role nomination for The Years, with Romola Garai double-nominated in the same category for her roles in both Giant and The Years.

Completing the nominations in the performing categories are: recent Oscar-winner Adrien Brody (The Fear Of 13), Billy Crudup (Harry Clarke), Paapa Essiedu (Death Of England: Delroy) and  Mark Strong (Oedipus, Wyndham’s Theatre), joining John Lithgow (Giant) in the Best Actor  category; Heather Agyepong (Shifters), Rosie Sheehy (Machinal) and Meera Syal (A  Tupperware Of Ashes), alongside Lesley Manville (Oedipus, Wyndham’s Theatre) and Indira  Varma (Oedipus, The Old Vic) for Best Actress; Jorge Bosch (Kyoto), Tom Edden (Waiting For  Godot) and Ben Whishaw (Bluets), alongside Elliot Levey (Giant) for Best Actor in a Supporting  Role; Sharon D. Clarke (The Importance Of Being Earnest), alongside Romola Garai (Giant and  The Years) and Gina McKee (The Years) for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

The Cunard Best Revival category sees fresh interpretations of classics take the spotlight, with nominations for the National Theatre’s The Importance Of Being Earnest, The Old Vic’s  Machinal, the Wyndham’s Theatre production of Oedipus, and Waiting For Godot at Theatre  Royal Haymarket. In true Greek-tragedian style, the Wyndham’s Theatre production of Oedipus goes head-to-head with a second adaptation at The Old Vic in the Best Actress category, with  Lesley Manville (Wyndham’s Theatre) and Indira Varma (The Old Vic) both nominated for  playing the same role.

A diverse array of productions makeup the nominations for the Noël Coward Award for Best New  Entertainment or Comedy Play, with the National Theatre’s Ballet Shoes, Steve Pemberton and  Reece Shearsmith’s Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright, Spirited Away at the London Coliseum and  Titanique, currently playing at the Criterion Theatre, all in contention for the accolade.

The Olivier Awards nominations were announced from midday, Tuesday 4 March on Official  London Theatre’s YouTube channel. Further details of the ceremony, taking place on Sunday 6  April at the Royal Albert Hall, will be announced soon.