2025 WhatsOnStage Awards

25th WhatsOnStage Awards
Date	9 February 2025
Location	London Palladium
Most nominations	Starlight Express (9)

The 25th WhatsOnStage Awards are set to take place on 9 February 2025 at the London Palladium for the second time.

Winners and nominees

Nominations opened on 7 November 2024. The nominees for the 25th WhatsOnStage Awards were announced in December 2024 by My Fair Lady stars Molly Lynch, David Seadon-Young and Minal Patel at the Curve Theatre in Leicester.

Best New Play	Best New Musical
Giant Kyoto Princess Essex Punch Slave Play Spirited Away	Babies The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Devil Wears Prada MJ the Musical Mean Girls Why Am I So Single?
Best Play Revival	Best Musical Revival
A Raisin in the Sun The Crucible Macbeth Oedipus Romeo and Juliet Waiting for Godot	Dear Evan Hansen Hadestown Hello, Dolly! Kiss Me, Kate Oliver! Starlight Express
Best Performer in a Play	Best Supporting Performer in a Play
Emma D'Arcy, The Other Place Tom Holland, Romeo and Juliet Cush Jumbo, Macbeth Anne Odeke, Princess Essex Michael Sheen, Nye David Tennant, Macbeth	Freema Agyeman, Romeo and Juliet Romola Garai, Giant Julie Hesmondhalgh, Punch Teddy Hinde, The History Boys Atsuki Mashiko, Spirited Away Sharon Small, Nye
Best Performer in a Musical	Best Supporting Performer in a Musical
Georgina Castle, Mean Girls Jo Foster, Why Am I So Single? Myles Frost, MJ the Musical Imelda Staunton, Hello, Dolly! Leesa Tulley, Why Am I So Single? Vanessa Williams, The Devil Wears Prada	Siobhan Athwal, Bhangra Nation Amy Di Bartolomeo, The Devil Wears Prada Melanie La Barrie, Hadestown Grace Mouat, Mean Girls Jaydon Vijn, Starlight Express Tom Xander, Mean Girls
Best Takeover Performance	Best Professional Debut Performance
Zoe Birkett, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical Cara Delevingne, Cabaret Craig Ryder, Moulin Rouge! the Musical Alex Sawyer, Hamilton Tobias Turley, Mamma Mia! Layton Williams, Cabaret	Esme Bowdler, Heathers the Musical Jeevan Braich, Starlight Express Stevie Doc, Mamma Mia! Vasco Emauz, Back to the Future Mia Kobayashi, Your Lie in April Gerardine Sacdalan, & Juliet
Best Direction	Best Musical Direction/Supervision
Eline Arbo, The Years Robert Icke, Oedipus Anthony Lau, The Crucible James Macdonald, Waiting for Godot Drew McOnie, The Artist Emma Rice, The Buddha of Suburbia	Mark Aspinall and Darren Clark, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mark Aspinall and Dan Turek, Fiddler on the Roof Simon Baker and Niraj Chag, The Buddha of Suburbia Alasdair Macrae, Macbeth Matthew Malone, Brassed Off Tarek Merchant and Liam Robinson, Hadestown
Best Choreography	Best Sound Design
Matthew Bourne, Oliver! Julia Cheng, Fiddler on the Roof Drew McOnie, The Artist Rujata Vaidya, Bhangra Nation Anthony Van Laast, Kiss Me, Kate Christopher Wheeldon, MJ the Musical	Paul Arditti, Brace Brace Susan Bear, Maggie and Me Nicola T Chang, Minority Report Gareth Fry, Macbeth Gareth Fry, Viola's Room Gareth Owen, Starlight Express
Best Set Design	Best Costume Design
Jon Bausor with puppetry by Toby Olié, Spirited Away Miriam Buether, Kyoto Es Devlin, Coriolanus Tim Hatley, Starlight Express Kenneth MacLeod, Maggie and Me Tom Scutt, Fiddler on the Roof	Sachiko Nakahara, Spirited Away Lez Brotherston, Oliver! Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray Tom Scutt, Fiddler on the Roof Gabriella Slade, Starlight Express Rae Smith, Hello, Dolly!
Best Lighting Design	Best Casting
Paule Constable and Ben Jacobs, Oliver! Howard Hudson, Starlight Express Jessica Hung Han Yun, Minority Report Tim Lutkin, Coriolanus Bruno Poet, Waiting for Godot Zoe Spurr, The Artist	Amy Ball, The Years Chloe Blake and Alastair Coomer, Till the Stars Come Down Harry Blumenau and Sarah-Jane Price, Why Am I So Single? Stuart Burt, Fiddler on the Roof Anna Cooper, Macbeth Lotte Hines, A Raisin in the Sun
Best Video Design	Best Wigs, Hair and Make Up Design
David Bergman, The Picture of Dorian Gray Grant Gee and Ellie Thompson, Bluets Andrzej Goulding, Starlight Express Tal Rosner, Minority Report Ash J Woodward, The Artist Ash J Woodward, Fangirls	Campbell Young Associates, The Devil Wears Prada Jackie Saundercock and Campbell Young Associates, Starlight Express Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray Betty Marini, The Cabinet Minister Hiroaki Miyauchi, Spirited Away Georgia Nosal, The Artist
Best Off-West End Production	Best Regional Production
Brace Brace Dear Young Monster Diary of a Gay Disaster Kenrex Mulatto Boy Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em	42 Balloons The Artist Becoming Nancy Brassed Off Dear Evan Hansen Oliver!
Best Concert Event	Best West End Show
Gypsy the Musical in Concert I Am Harvey Milk Pippin – 50th Anniversary Concert Something Rotten! – In Concert Sondheim on Sondheim Spring Awakening: 15th Anniversary Concert	Cabaret Hamilton Les Misérables Mamma Mia! Operation Mincemeat Six
Special Award: Services to UK Theatre

Productions with multiple accolades

Multiple nominations

• 9 nominations: Starlight Express
• 6 nominations: The Artist, Macbeth
• 5 nominations: Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver!, Spirited Away
• 4 nominations: The Devil Wears Prada, Mean Girls, Why Am I So Single?
• 3 nominations: Cabaret, Hadestown, Hello, Dolly!, Mamma Mia!, MJ the Musical, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Romeo and Juliet, Waiting for Godot
• 2 nominations: Bhangra Nation, Brace Brace, Brassed Off, The Buddha of Suburbia, Coriolanus, The Crucible, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Dear Evan Hansen, Giant, Hamilton, Kiss Me, Kate, Kyoto, Maggie and Me, Nye, Oedipus, Princess Essex, Punch, A Raisin in the Sun, The Years