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James McAvoy won best actor for a revival of "The Ruling
Class" while Imelda Staunton took the award for best performance
in a musical for her portrayal of Momma Rose in a revival of the
1959 Broadway musical "Gypsy".
The Oscar-winning Kidman, performing on the London stage for the
first time since 1998, has won rave reviews for her portrayal of
Rosalind Franklin, whose use of X-ray diffraction images helped
lead to the discovery of DNA's double helix structure.
In other categories, the award for best play went to "The
Motherf**ker with the Hat" by Stephen Adly Guirgis and the best
director award went to Robert Icke for his revival of
Aeschylus's "Oresteia".
The award for best design went to Anna Fleischle for "Hangmen"
while Molly Davies received the award for most promising
playwright for "God Bless the Child".
The emerging talent award was won by David Moorst, for his role
in "Violence and Son" and the newcomer in a musical award went
to Gemma Arterton, for her musical theater debut in "Made in
Dagenham".
Actors Judi Dench and Ian McKellen served as co-hosts of the
event, along with the Evening Standard's publisher Evgeny
Lebedev.
(Reporting by Michael Roddy; Editing by Ros Russell)
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