The UK Theatre Awards, established in 1991 and known before 2011 as the TMA Awards, are presented annually by UK Theatre (formerly the Theatrical Management Association) in recognition of creative excellence and outstanding work in regional theatre throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.[1][2]
| Year | Best New Play | Best Musical | Best Show for Children and Young People | Best Touring Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Mugabe, My Dad & Me, an ETT, Brixton House & York Theatre Royal in association with Alison Holder co-production | Billy Elliot The Musical, a Made at Curve production | Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World, a Kenny Wax Family Entertainment in association with MAST Mayflower Studios | n/a |
| 2019 | Life of Pi adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti, from the novel by Yann Martel, a Sheffield Theatres production | Standing At The Sky’s Edge directed by Robert Hastie, a Sheffield Theatres production | Billionaire Boy The Musical directed by Luke Sheppard, a Nuffield Southampton Theatres production in association with Belgrade Theatre, Coventry | n/a |
| 2018[3] | The Almighty Sometimes by Kendall Feaver, a Royal Exchange Theatre production | The Assassination of Katie Hopkins, a Theatr Clwyd production | The Little Mermaid, a The Egg – Theatre Royal Bath and Pins and Needles co-production | Three Sisters, a RashDash and Royal Exchange Theatre co-production |
| 2017 | Narvik by Lizzie Nunnery, a Box of Tricks production | Everybody's Talking About Jamie, a Sheffield Theatres production | The Snow Queen, a New Vic Theatre production | The Who’s Tommy, a New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and Ramps on the Moon co-production |
| 2016 | Cuttin' It by Charlene James, a Young Vic/Royal Court Theatre co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and The Yard Theatre | Flowers for Mrs Harris, a Sheffield Theatres Production
Show Boat, a Sheffield Theatres production |
The Hobbit, a The Dukes production | The Herbal Bed, a co-production by Royal & Derngate Northampton, English Touring Theatre and Rose Theatre Kingston |
| 2015 | Iphigenia in Splott by Gary Owen, a Sherman Cymru production | Gypsy, a Chichester Festival Theatre production | Dragon, a National Theatre of Scotland, Vox Motus and Tianjin People's Art Theatre, China production, at the Citizens Theatre and Traverse Theatre | Twelfth Night, an English Touring Theatre and Sheffield Theatres production |
| 2014 | An August Bank Holiday Lark by Deborah McAndrew, a Northern Broadsides production in partnership with New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on tour | Brass, a National Youth Music Theatre production at City varieties Music Hall, Leeds | Translations, English Touring Theatre | |
| 2013 | Bull by Mike Bartlett, a Sheffield Theatres production | This Is My Family, a Sheffield Theatres production | The Borrowers, a Northern Stage, Newcastle production and Mister Holgado, a Unicorn Theatre production | The Full Monty, a Sheffield Theatres production, presented by David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers |
| 2012 | In The Next Room by Sarah Ruhl, a Theatre Royal Bath production in the Ustinov Studio | The Go-Between, a West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Derby LIVE! production at West Yorkshire Playhouse | Anne Boleyn - English Touring Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare's Globe production | |
| 2011 | Love, Love, Love, a Drum Theatre Plymouth and Paines Plough production at the Drum Theatre Plymouth, and on tour | Matilda the Musical, an RSC production at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon | Richard III and The Comedy of Errors: both Propeller productions, in association with The Touring Partnership, on tour | |
| 2010[4] | Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss at The Royal Court | Sweeney Todd - a Dundee Rep Ensemble production, at Dundee Rep | Pobby and Dingan - a Catherine Wheels Theatre Company production, in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh | The Empire – a Royal Court Theatre and Drum Theatre Plymouth production |
| 2009[5] | ENRON by Lucy Prebble, a Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre production at Chichester Festival Theatre | Spend Spend Spend at Watermill, Newbury | For The Best Presented by the Unicorn Theatre in collaboration with Mark Storor and Anna Ledgard | Noël Coward's Brief Encounter, David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers and Cineworld present The Kneehigh Theatre Production in a co production with Royal and Derngate Northampton |
| 2008 | The Pitman Painters by Lee Hall at Live Theatre, Newcastle | Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi at the Playhouse, Liverpool | Looking for JJ adapted from Anne Cassidy's novel by Marcus Romer at the Pilot Theatre | |
| 2007 | That Face by Polly Stenham at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court | Sunshine on Leith at Dundee Rep | Citizens' Theatre/Tag's Yellow Moon (The Ballad Of Leila And Lee) at the Citizens', Glasgow and tour | |
| 2006 | Rubenstein Kiss by James Phillips at Hampstead Theatre | Road To Nowhere at the Lyric Hammersmith | National Theatre of Scotland and Improbable's The Wolves In The Walls on tour | |
| 2005 | Pyrenees by David Greig, Tron Theatre Company and Paines Plough | How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying at the Festival Theatre, Chichester | Alice's Adventures In Wonderland at Bristol Old Vic | |
| 2004 | The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs | The Hired Man book by Melvyn Bragg, music and lyrics by Howard Goodall, at Salisbury Playhouse | Arthur, The Story Of A King, Wee Stories & The Scottish Touring Consortium co-created by Andy Cannon, Iain Johnstone and David Trouton | |
| 2003 | The Breathing House by Peter Arnott, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh | Sweet Charity book by Neil Simon, music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, based on the original screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinellis and Ennio Flaiano, at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield | Tom's Midnight Garden adapted by David Wood from Philippa Pearce's book, Library Theatre Company, Manchester | |
| 2002 | Gagarin Way by Gregory Burke, Traverse Theatre Company in association with the National Theatre Studio on tour | Fiddler On The Roof book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, a Watermill West Berkshire Playhouse production | Lifeboat by Nicola McCartney, Catherine Wheels Theatre Company in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh on tour | |
| 2001 | Splendour by Abi Morgan, Paines Plough in association with the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust on tour | The Gondoliers by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, adapted by John Doyle at The Watermill West Berkshire Playhouse | The Unicorn Theatre's Tom's Midnight Garden by David Wood adapted from the book by Philippa Pearce, incidental music Stephen McNeff | |
| 2000 | Larkin With Women by Ben Brown at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough | Anonymous Society based on the music of Jacques Brel, created by Andrew Wale and Perrin Allen with English lyrics by Andrew Wale, based on translation by Helen Lea, produced by Start at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith | Under The Apple Tree devised by Paul Harman, Philip Harrison and David Tarkenter for ctc on tour | |
| 1999 | The Palace Theatre Watford production of The Late Middle Classes by Simon Gray, subsequently toured nationally by the Ambassador Theatre Group | Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Tamasha Theatre Company's Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings And A Funeral adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, music arranged by Barrie Bignold, English lyrics by Shaun McCarthy at Birmingham Repertory Theatre | The Young Vic Theatre Company's Arabian Nights adapted and directed by Dominic Cooke at the Young Vic and now on tour, in association with Warwick Arts Centre and Darren Ockert Productions | |
| 1998 | Frozen by Bryony Lavery at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre | Spend Spend Spend! by Steve Brown and Justin Greene inspired by the life of Viv Nicholson, from the book by Viv Nicholson and Stephen Smith at West Yorkshire Playhouse | Oxford Stage Company's Junk by Melvyn Burgess, adapted by John Retallack | |
| 1997 | Popcorn by Ben Elton, a co-production between Nottingham Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse | Divorce Me Darling book, music and lyrics by Sandy Wilson at Chichester Festival Theatre | Beauty And The Beast, directed and written by Laurence Boswell at the Young Vic Theatre, London | |
| 1996 | Divine Right by Peter Whelan at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre | By Jeeves by Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the Jeeves stories by P G Wodehouse at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough | Peter Pan by J M Barrie adapted by Matthew Warchus at West Yorkshire Playhouse | |
| 1995 | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, adapted by Harry Gibson, at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow | Moll Flanders book by Claire Luckham (from the novel by Daniel Defoe), lyrics by Paul Leigh (original lyrics by Claire Luckham and Chris Bond), music by George Stiles (based on tunes of the period) at the Theatre Royal, York | The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse, book and lyrics by Anthony Clark, music by Mark Vibrans at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre | |
| 1994 | Hated Nightfall by Howard Barker, co-produced by the Royal Court and the Wrestling School, on tour | Assassins music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman from an original idea by Charles Gilbert Junior at the Library Theatre, Manchester | Two Weeks With The Queen adapted by Mary Morris from the novel by Morris Gleitzman, coproduced by the Royal National Theatre and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough | |
| 1993 | Lost In Yonkers by Neil Simon, presented by Duncan C Weldon, on tour | Me And My Girl book and lyrics by L Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber, music by Noel Gay, a Richard Armitage/Noel Gay Organisation production presented by Pola Jones and Farworlds Ltd, on tour | The Royal National Theatre's production of Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn, on tour | |
| 1992 | The Choice by Claire Luckham at Salisbury Playhouse | Into The Woods music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich | The Magic Storybook by Renata Allen, Oxford Stage Company and Oxford Playhouse | |
| 1991 | Donny Boy by Robin Glendinning at Manchester Royal Exchange | Sweeney Todd music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler at Oldham Coliseum | Monty Moonbeam's Magnificent Mission by Christopher Lillicrap and Jeanette Ranger at the Swan Theatre, Worcester |
| Year | Best Performance in a Play | Best Performance in a Musical | Best Supporting Performance in a Play | Best Supporting Performance in a Musical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Paapa Essiedu for Hamlet, a Royal Shakespeare Company production | Clare Burt for Flowers for Mrs Harris, a Sheffield Theatres Production | Rebecca Trehearn for Show Boat, a Sheffield Theatres production | |
| 2015 | Joel MacCormack for Each His Own Wilderness, an Orange Tree Theatre production
Polly Lister for Abigail's Party, a Theatre by the Lake production |
Imelda Staunton for Gypsy, a Chichester Festival Theatre production | Justine Mitchell for For Services Rendered, a Chichester Festival Theatre production | |
| 2014 | Patrick O'Kane for Quietly, an Abbey Theatre production on tour | Jamie Parker for Guys and Dolls, a Chichester Festival Theatre production | Jenna Augen for Bad Jews, a Theatre Royal Bath production, in the Ustinov Studio | |
| 2013 | Cush Jumbo for A Doll's House, a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production | Janie Dee for Hello Dolly!, a Curve, Leicester production | Siân Phillips for This Is My Family, a Sheffield Theatres production | |
| 2012 | Henry Goodman for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, a Chichester Festival Theatre production | Imelda Staunton for Sweeney Todd, a Chichester Festival Theatre production | ||
| 2011 | Derek Jacobi for King Lear: a Donmar Warehouse production at the Grand Opera House, Belfast and on tour | Bertie Carvel for Matilda at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon | ||
| 2010 | Maggie Steed for Hay Fever at West Yorkshire Playhouse – a West Yorkshire Playhouse production | Ensemble: The Hired Man- an Octagon Theatre Bolton production | Ayesha Antoine for My Wonderful Day at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough – a Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough production | Louise Plowright for Irving Berlin's White Christmas the Musical - A Michael Rose Limited, Chris Moreno & Mayflower Theatre, Southampton presentation of a Theatre Royal Plymouth Production |
| 2009 | Anna Francolini for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Royal & Derngate Northampton | Alexandra Silber for Carousel, Stanhope Productions, Michael Edwards & Carole Winter, Tiger/WSZ, Stevens-O'Boyle, and Tulchin/Bartner/Ambassador Theatre Group in association with The Churchill, Bromley on tour | Claire Price for Mary Stuart at Clwyd Theatr Cymru | Kirsty Hoiles for Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill, Newbury |
| 2008 | Brenda Blethyn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Glass Menagerie | Brian Conley for The Music Man at Chichester Festival Theatre | Kate O'Flynn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Children's Hour | Martin Ball for Mary Poppins on tour |
| 2007 | Patrick Stewart for Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre produced in association with Duncan C Weldon and Paul Elliot | Henry Goodman for Sheffield Theatres' Fiddler On The Roof at the Crucible | Meg Fraser for All My Sons at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh | Anne Louise Ross for Sunshine On Leith at Dundee Rep |
| 2006 | Greg Hicks for Tamburlaine at Bristol Old Vic | Junix Inocian for Pacific Overtures at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester | Tom Brooke for The Long And The Short And The Tall at the Lyceum, Sheffield | Nicole Faraday for Bad Girls The Musical at West Yorkshire Playhouse |
| 2005 | Ian McDiarmid for Lear at the Crucible, Sheffield | Anna-Jane Casey for Mack And Mabel at the Watermill | Jimmy Akingbola for Blue/Orange at the Crucible, Sheffield | Mark Tracie Bennett for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's Sex, Chips & Rock N Roll |
| Year | Best Director | Best Set Design / Best Design | Best Lighting Design | Special Award for Individual Achievement | Special Award for Achievement in Regional Theatre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Raz Shaw for Wit, a Royal Exchange Theatre production | Lez Brotherston for Flowers for Mrs Harris and Show Boat, a Sheffield Theatres productions | |||
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| 2013 | Blanche McIntyre for The Seagull, a Headlong and Nuffield, Southampton production in association with Derby Theatre | Jonathan Fensom and Charles Balfour for The Accrington Pals, a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production | Simon Callow | ||
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| 2010 | Laurie Sansom for Beyond the Horizon and Spring Storm - Royal & Derngate, Northampton productions | Mike Brookes and Simon Banham for The Persians - a National Theatre Wales production | Chris Davey for Dial M for Murder – a West Yorkshire Playhouse and Fiery Angel production and for Beyond the Horizon – a Royal & Derngate, Northampton production | Max Stafford-Clark | Paines Plough |
| 2009 | Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Othello, Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth in collaboration with Royal and Derngate, Northampton on tour | Michael Pavelka for The Merchant of Venice, Watermill Theatre and Propellor on tour | Daniella Beattie for The Wicked Lady at New Victoria. Newcastle Under Lyme | Nicolas Kent | The Theatre, Chipping Norton |
| 2008 | Michael Boyd for The Histories at RSC Stratford-Upon-Avon | Mike Britton for Lady From The Sea at Birmingham Rep | The Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Children's Hour designed by Mick Hughes | Bill Kenwright | Latitude Festival |
| 2007 | Tim Supple for A Midsummer Night's Dream on tour | Chloe Lamford for Small Miracle at the Mercury, Colchester | Matthew Bourne | Bruntwood Group - for their year round charitable work and key contributions off stage | |
| 2006 | Nina Raine for Unprotected at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool | Robert Innes Hopkins for Promise, Promises at the Crucible, Sheffield | Thelma Holt | English Youth Ballet | |
| 2005 | Michael Grandage for Don Carlos at the Crucible, Sheffield | Faustus set design by Laura Hopkins at Northampton Theatre Royal | The Mackintosh Foundation | ||
| 2004 | Anna Mackmin for Cloud Nine a Sheffield Theatres production at the Crucible | Liz Ascroft for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice | The Playhouse Theatre, Derry | ||
| 2003 | David Farr for A Midsummer Night's Dream at Bristol Old Vic | Julian Croch, Phil Eddols, Colin Grenfell and Stephen Snell for The Hanging Man, Improbable Theatre in co-production wit West Yorkshire Playhouse, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Lyric Hammersmith and Weiner Festwochen in association with Pomegrante Arts | The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, North Yorkshire | ||
| 2002 | Emma Rice for Kneehigh Theatre's The Red Shoes on tour | Simon Higlett for Elizabeth Rex at Birmingham Repertory Theatre produced in association with Duncan C. Weldon and Paul Elliott for Triumph Entertainment Ltd, and for Nuffield Theatre Southampton's Three Sisters presented by Theatre Royal Bath Productions on tour | mindthe gap | ||
| 2001 | Vicky Featherstone for Splendour, Paines Plough in association with the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust on tour | Laura Hopkins for Mister Heracles at West Yorkshire Playhouse | The Wales Association for the Performing Arts | ||
| 2000 | Richard Wilson for Mr Kolpert at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court | Jeremy Herbert for 4.48 Psychosis at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court | Mercury Theatre, Colchester | ||
| 1999 | Edward Hall for Twelfth Night at The Watermill, West Berkshire Playhouse | Es Devlin for the Bush Theatre's Howie The Rookie at the Bush Theatre | Northern Stage | ||
| 1998 | Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott for Shockheaded Peter, a Cultural Industry project produced in collaboration with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Lyric Theatre Hammersmith | Neil Warmington for Jane Eyre, Shared Experience Theatre in association with the Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and the Young Vic Theatre on tour | Mobil Touring Theatre | ||
| 1997 | Janet Suzman for The Cherry Orchard, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company in a co-production with the Market Theatre, Johannesburg | Robert Innes Hopkins for The Wasp Factory at West Yorkshire Playhouse and Oxford Stage Company's My Mother Said I Never Should on tour | G & J Productions | ||
| 1996 | Mike Alfreds for Flesh And Blood, Jude The Obscure and Private Lives, Method & Madness on tour | Tony Tripp for Cole Porter's High Society presented by Paul Elliott by arrangement with Paul Dainty Europe Ltd. Sheffield Theatres and Warner Chappell Music Ltd, on tour | Jeremy Raison, artistic director of Chester Gateway | ||
| 1995 | Barrie Rutter for The Cracked Pot at West Yorkshire Playhouse in association with Northern Broadsides, and for Northern Broadsides' tour of A Midsummer Night's Dream | Robin Don for The Winter Guest at West Yorkshire Playhouse, co-produced with the Almeida Theatre Company | |||
| 1994 | Anthony Clark for The Atheist's Tragedy and The Playboy Of The Western World at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre | Peter J. Davison for the tours of the Almeida Theatre's production of Medea in association with Bill Kenwright Ltd and Theatr Clwyd's production of Saint Joan presented by Duncan C. Weldon | |||
| 1993 | David Glass for the David Glass ensemble production of Gormenghast, on tour | Charles Cusick-Smith for The Plough And The Stars at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester | |||
| 1992 | Gregory Hersov for Romeo And Juliet and A View From The Bridge at Manchester Royal Exchange | Neil Warmington (set), Ben Ormerod (lighting) and Mic Pool (sound) for Life Is A Dream at West Yorkshire Playhouse | |||
| 1991 | Patrick Sandford for The Winter Wife and Much Ado About Nothing at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton | Simon Vincenzi for Thrse Raquin at Nottingham Playhouse |
| Year | Achievement in Dance | Achievement in Opera |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Gary Clarke for Coal | The Royal Opera and Guildhall School Of Music and Drama for 4.48 Psychosis in association with the Lyric Hammersmith |
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| 2013 | Independent dance artist Wendy Houstoun for her insightful, funny solo 50 Acts | Welsh National Opera for the productions of Lulu & Lohengrin, conducted by Lothar Koenigs |
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| 2010 | The Mark Morris Dance Group for L'allegro, Il Pensero Ed Il Moderato | Welsh National Opera's production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg |
| 2009[5] | The dancers of English National Ballet, who showed new strength and interpretative skills across a range of repertory | Glyndebourne for an outstanding 75th Anniversary season |
| 2008 | Theatre-Rites & Arthur Pita for Mischief | Opera North for its summer Shakespeare season |
| 2007 | Birmingham Royal Ballet's Stravinsky! A Celebration 2007 | Opera North's Peter Grimes |
| 2006 | Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo for their hilarious blend of low comedy and high glamour that lampoons and celebrates the golden age of classical ballet | Welsh National Opera's Mazeppa |
| 2005 | Mark Baldwin for the creation of Constant Speed and the high calibre of his artistic directorship of Rambert Dance Company | The Partnership of Vladimir Jurowski and Richard Jones for Welsh National Operas Wozzeck |
| 2004 | Scottish Ballet for sure-footed modernisation under Ashley Page and dynamic performances | Opera North for its Eight Little Greats season at Leeds and on tour |
| 2003 | George Piper Dances' Critics' Choice ****** programme | Tristan und Isolde at Glyndebourne |
| 2002 | Christopher Hampson for Double Concerto, an outstanding new ballet in a fine year for repertory at English National Ballet | Scottish Opera for Die Walküre and Siegfried |
| 2001 | Rambert Dance Company for their performance of Mats Ek's She Was Black | Richard Jones, Vladimir Jurowski and the company for Welsh National Opera's production of The Queen of Spades |
| 2000 | Tamara Rojo for her outstanding performances for English National Ballet | Anja Silja, Amanda Roocroft and Jir Belohlvek for leading Glyndebourne's revival of Jenufa |
| 1999 | Lez Brotherston for Northern Ballet Theatre's Carmen, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Giselle, Dracula and A Christmas Carol | Scottish Opera, especially for its outstanding productions of Der Rosenkavalier and Macbeth |
| 1998 | David Bintley for the choreography of Edward II, for mounting the Balanchine bill and for reviving Dame Ninette de Valois' The Prospect Before Us for Birmingham Royal Ballet | Welsh National Opera for Billy Budd and The Coronation of Poppea |
| 1997 | The dancers of Rambert Dance Company for their performances in Airs, Eidolon, Port For Angels and Stream | The cast and production of Scottish Opera's Idomeneo |
The 2013 UK Theatre Award winners were announced on 20 October 2013.[6]