Eddie Redmayne, Jessie Buckley and Emma Corrin Nominated for Olivier Awards 2022
variety.comK.J. Yossman Eddie Redmayne, Jessie Buckley and “The Crown’s” Emma Corrin are among those nominated for the U.K.’s most prestigious theater awards, the Olivier Awards.Redmayne and Buckley were both nominated for best actor awards for “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” while Corrin was nominated for “Anna X” at Harold Pinter Theatre. “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” received eleven nominations in total, the most for any one show.
Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaptation of “Life of Pi” received nine nominations while “Anything Goes,” which starred Sutton Foster and Robert Lindsay, also received nine.The awards come at the end of a difficult two years of London’s West End, with COVID resulting in multiple delays and even cancellations to theater productions.
The awards, which are produced by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT), will take place on April 10 in London at the Royal Albert Hall.
They will be hosted by comedian Jason Manford. ‘I want to offer enormous congratulations to all the 2022 Olivier Awards nominees,” said Julian Bird, chief executive of SOLT. “This year’s fantastic array truly demonstrates the breadth and diversity of London’s world-leading theatre industry, and its extraordinary creativity and resilience during an extremely challenging period for our sector.
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