{"id":234201,"date":"2026-04-13T07:48:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/2026-olivier-awards\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:48:56","slug":"2026-olivier-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/2026-olivier-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Olivier Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paddington was the big winner of the night, taking home 7 awards (out of 11 nominations). All My Sons, Evita, Into the Woods, Kenrex, and Punch each won 2 awards.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full ceremony here:<\/p>\n<p>plays <\/p>\n<p><u>Best New Play<\/u><br \/><b>Punch by James Graham &#8211; winner<\/b><br \/>1536 by Ava Pickett <br \/>Inter Alia by Suzie Miller <br \/>Kenrex by Jack Holden and Ed Stambollouian <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Revival<\/u><br \/><b>All My Sons &#8211; winner<\/b><br \/>Arcadia <br \/>Much Ado About Nothing <br \/>The Seagull <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Entertainment or Comedy Play<\/u><br \/><b>Oh, Mary! by Cole Escola \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>The Comedy about Spies by Henry Lewis and Henry Shields <br \/>Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe <br \/>Paranormal Activity by Levi Holloway (based on original text by Oren Peli) <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Actor<\/u><br \/><b>Jack Holden as Performer in Kenrex \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Bryan Cranston as Joe Keller in All My Sons <br \/>Sean Hayes as Oscar Levant in Good Night, Oscar <br \/>Tom Hiddleston as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing <br \/>David Shields as Jacob Dunne in Punch <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Actress<\/u><br \/><b>Rosamund Pike as Jessica Parks in Inter Alia \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Cate Blanchett as Irina Arkadina in The Seagull <br \/>Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Kate Keller in All My Sons <br \/>Julia McDermott as Stacey in Weather Girl <br \/>Rosie Sheehy as Her in Guess How Much I Love You?<\/p>\n<p><u>Best Actor in a Supporting Role<\/u><br \/><b>Paapa Essiedu as Chris Keller in All My Sons \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Hammed Animashaun as Mugsy in Dealer&#8217;s Choice <br \/>Zachary Hart as Semyon Medvedenko in The Seagull <br \/>Zachary Hart as Reg in Stereophonic <br \/>Giles Terera as Mary&#8217;s Husband in Oh, Mary! <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Actress in a Supporting Role<\/u><br \/><b>Julie Hesmondhalgh as Joan in Punch \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Isis Hainsworth as Thomasina Coverley in Arcadia <br \/>Lucy Karczewski as Diana in Stereophonic <br \/>Hayley Squires as Ann Deever in All My Sons <br \/>Sophie Thompson as Maria Helliwell in When We Are Married  <a name=\"cutid1-end\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>musicals <\/p>\n<p><u>Best New Musical<\/u><br \/><b>Paddington &#8211; winner<\/b><br \/>Here We Are <br \/>Shucked <br \/>The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Musical Revival<\/u><br \/><b>Into the Woods &#8211; winner<\/b><br \/>American Psycho <br \/>Evita <br \/>The Producers <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Actor in a Musical<\/u><br \/><b>James Hameed as Young Man \/ Paddington (voice and remote puppeteer) and Arti Shah as Paddington (on stage) in Paddington \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Marc Antolin as Leo Bloom in The Producers <br \/>Andy Nyman as Max Bialystock in The Producers <br \/>Jamie Parker as The Baker in Into the Woods <br \/>Diego Andres Rodriguez as Che in Evita <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Actress in a Musical<\/u><br \/><b>Rachel Zegler as Eva Per\u00f3n in Evita \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Katie Brayben as The Baker&#8217;s Wife in Into the Woods \u2013 Bridge Theatre<br \/>Danielle Fiamanya and Georgina Onuorah as Fiona Maclaren in Brigadoon \u2013 Regent&#8217;s Park Open Air Theatre<br \/>Jane Krakowski as Marianne Brink in Here We Are \u2013 Royal National Theatre<br \/>Jenna Russell as Maureen Fry in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical<\/u><br \/><b>Tom Edden as Mr. Curry in Paddington \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Trevor Ashley as Roger De Bris in The Producers <br \/>Corbin Bleu as Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby <br \/>Jo Foster as Jack in Into the Woods <br \/>Oliver Savile as The Wolf and Cinderella&#8217;s Prince in Into the Woods<\/p>\n<p><u>Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical<\/u><br \/><b>Victoria Hamilton-Barritt as Millicent Clyde in Paddington \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Tracie Bennett as Woman in Here We Are <br \/>Amy Booth-Steel as Lady Sloane in Paddington <br \/>Kate Fleetwood as The Witch in Into the Woods <br \/>Georgina Onuorah as Lulu in Shucked  <a name=\"cutid2-end\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>combined categories (plays and musicals) <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Director<\/u><br \/><b>Luke Sheppard for Paddington \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Jordan Fein for Into the Woods <br \/>Ed Stambollouian for Kenrex <br \/>Lyndsey Turner for 1536 <br \/>Ivo van Hove for All My Sons<\/p>\n<p><u>Best Choreographer<\/u><br \/><b>Fabian Aloise for Evita \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Ellen Kane for Paddington <br \/>Drew McOnie for Brigadoon <br \/>Lynne Page for American Psycho<\/p>\n<p><u>Best Set Design<\/u><br \/><b>Tom Pye for scenic designing and Ash J Woodward for video designing Paddington \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Paul Tate dePoo III for projection designing and scenic designing The Great Gatsby <br \/>Tom Scutt for scenic designing Into the Woods <br \/>David Zinn for scenic designing Stereophonic <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Costume Design<\/u><br \/><b>Gabriella Slade and Tahra Zafar for Paddington \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Enver Chakartash for Stereophonic <br \/>Linda Cho for The Great Gatsby <br \/>Tom Scutt for Into the Woods <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Lighting Design<\/u><br \/><b>Roland Horvath and Aideen Malone for Into the Woods \u2013 winne<\/b>r<br \/>Robbie Butler for Punch <br \/>Jon Clark for Evita <br \/>Joshua Pharo for Kenrex <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Sound Design<\/u><br \/><b>Giles Thomas for Kenrex \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Adam Fisher for Into the Woods <br \/>Gareth Owen for Paddington <br \/>Ryan Rumery for Stereophonic <\/p>\n<p><u>Outstanding Musical Contribution<\/u><br \/><b>Chris Fenwick for arranging and music supervising and Sean Hayes for live piano of Rhapsody in Blue in Good Night, Oscar \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>Matthew Brind for arranging and orchestrating Paddington <br \/>Will Butler for orchestrating and songwriting and Justin Craig for orchestrating John Patrick Elliott for Kenrex <a name=\"cutid3-end\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>other <\/p>\n<p><u>Best Family Show<\/u><br \/><b>The Boy at the Back of the Class \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>The Boy with Wings <br \/>The Firework-Maker&#8217;s Daughter <br \/>The Three Little Pigs <\/p>\n<p><u>Best New Dance Production<\/u><br \/><b>Into the Hairy by Sharon Eyal, S-E-D \u2013 Sadler&#8217;s Wells &#8211; winner<\/b><br \/>Mimi&#8217;s Shebeen by KVS and Alesandra Seutin \u2013 Sadler&#8217;s Wells East<br \/>Random Taranto by Mar\u00eda del Mar Su\u00e1rez (La Chachi), Dance Umbrella: Change Tempo \u2013 The Pit at Barbican<br \/>She&#8217;s Auspicious by Mythili Prakash \u2013 Sadler&#8217;s Wells East<\/p>\n<p><u>Best New Opera Production<\/u><br \/><b>Dead Man Walking, English National Opera \u2013 winner<\/b><br \/>The Makropulos Case, Royal Opera <br \/>Tosca, Royal Opera <br \/>The Valkyrie, Royal Opera <\/p>\n<p><u>Best New Production in an Affiliate Theatre<\/u><br \/><b>The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams \u2013 Yard Theatre &#8211; winner<\/b><br \/>Ben and Imo by Mark Ravenhill \u2013 Orange Tree Theatre<br \/>The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs by Iman Qureshi \u2013 Kiln Theatre<br \/>Miss Myrtle&#8217;s Garden by Danny James King \u2013 Bush Theatre<br \/>The Shitheads by Jack Nicholls \u2013 Royal Court Theatre<\/p>\n<p>Special Award: Elaine Paige<br \/>Outstanding Contribution for Dance: Wayne McGregor<br \/>Outstanding Contribution for Opera: Danielle de Niese<br \/>Industry Recognition Award: Betty Laine, Linda Tolhurst, David Wood <a name=\"cutid4-end\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shows with multiple nominations:<br \/>11 &#8211; Paddington<br \/>6 &#8211; All My Sons<br \/>6 &#8211; Kenrex<br \/>6 &#8211; Stereophonic<br \/>5 &#8211; Evita<br \/>4 &#8211; The Producers<br \/>4 &#8211; Punch<br \/>3 &#8211; The Great Gatsby<br \/>3 &#8211; Here We Are<br \/>3 &#8211; The Seagull<br \/>2 &#8211; 1536<br \/>2 &#8211; American Psycho<br \/>2 &#8211; Arcadia<br \/>2 &#8211; Brigadoon<br \/>2 &#8211; Inter Alia<br \/>2 &#8211; Much Ado About Nothing<br \/>2 &#8211; Oh, Mary!<br \/>2 &#8211; Shucked<br \/>2 &#8211; The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R5vFjfIvYss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ku4Xm3QNHTM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132200992.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paddington was the big winner of the night, taking home 7 awards (out of 11 nominations). All My Sons, Evita, Into the Woods, Kenrex, and Punch each won 2 awards. Watch the full ceremony here: plays Best New PlayPunch by James Graham &#8211; winner1536 by Ava Pickett Inter Alia by Suzie Miller Kenrex by Jack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}