UK Theatre Awards 2025

The winner of each award is highlighted in bold.

On Stage 

Best Design

• Kei Ishihara/BlankRD for Scenography, Sacico Ito/Brucke for Costume Design, Simon Wilkinson for Lighting Design & Ailie Cohen for Puppet Design for Confessions Of A Shinagawa Monkey, a Vanishing Point & Kanagawa Arts Theatre co-production in association with Tramway in partnership with Dundee Rep & The Japan Foundation
• Yoav Segal for Set & Costume Design for Pinocchio, a Watermill Theatre production
• Grace Smart for Design for Spend, Spend, Spend, a Royal Exchange Theatre production

Best Director

• Prasanna Puwanarajah for Twelfth Night, a Royal Shakespeare Company production
• Nadia Fall for Abigail’s Party, a Stratford East production
• Theresa Heskins & Vicki Dela Amedume for Angela Carter’s The Company Of Wolves, a New Vic Theatre production

Best Musical Production sponsored by Tysers Live

• Jesus Christ Superstar, a Watermill Theatre production by arrangement with LW Entertainment
• Becoming Nancy, a Birmingham Rep production in association with Hal Luftig, Mike Isaacson & Kristin Caskey
• Come Fall In Love – The DDLJ Musical, a Yash Raj Films production at Opera House Manchester
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry, a Chichester Festival Theatre production

Best New Play sponsored by Ecclesiastical

• Flumps, a Mercury Original production in association with The Thelmas
• Grace Pervades, a Theatre Royal Bath & Second Half Productions co-production
• Through The Shortbread Tin, a National Theatre Of Scotland production

Best Play Revival

• Animal Farm, a Leeds Playhouse & Stratford East co-production in association with Nottingham Playhouse
• The Constant Wife, a Royal Shakespeare Company production commissioned by & presented in association with David Pugh Ltd
• Our New Girl, a Lyric Theatre Belfast production

Achievement in Dance

• Natural Behaviour, by Thick & Tight
• balletLORENT, for Snow White/Snow White: The Sacrifice
• Songs Of The Wayfarer, by Claire Cunningham in collaboration with Dan Watson & Luke Pell
• Stopgap Dance Company, for Lived Fiction

Achievement in Opera

• Welsh National Opera for Peter Grimes, a WNO production
• Opera North for Simon Boccanegra, an Opera North production
• Scottish Opera for Trial By Jury, a co-production by Scottish Opera, D’Oyly Carte Opera & Opera Holland Park and A Matter Of Misconduct!, a co-production by Scottish Opera & D’Oyly Carte Opera

Best Supporting Performance (in a Musical or Play)

• Georgie Henley for The Ministry Of Lesbian Affairs, a Kiln Theatre, Antic Productions & Damsel Productions co-production
• Sam Buttery for Little Shop Of Horrors, a Sheffield Theatres production
• Ntombizodwa Ndlovu for Marie And Rosetta, a Rose Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre & ETT co-production
• Thea-Jo Wolfe for The Mad Ones, an Electric Press Productions production at The Other Palace Studio

Best Performance in a Musical

• Rakesh Boury & Rebecca McKinnis for The Parent Agency, a Scenario Two & Storyhouse co-production
• Molly Lynch for My Fair Lady, a Made At Curve production
• Dawn Sievewright for Wild Rose, a Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Caledonia Productions & Gavin Kalin Productions co-production

Best Performance in a Play

• Jack Holden for KENREX, a Sheffield Theatres & Aria Entertainment co-production
• Helen Carter for Shirley Valentine, a Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse production
• Michael Patrick for The Tragedy Of Richard III, a Lyric Theatre Belfast production

Best Show for Children & Young People

• Pig Heart Boy, a Children’s Theatre Partnership, Unicorn Theatre & Sheffield Theatres co-production
• The Jingleclaw, a Birmingham Hippodrome production
• The Jungle Book, an Octagon Theatre Bolton production

Off Stage 

Excellence in Arts Education

• Cross The Line, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
• Bristol Hippodrome
• Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP), Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse

Excellence in Touring sponsored by Theatre Tokens

• Steel: Regional & National Tour, Theatre By The Lake
• Emma Rice Company
• Through The Shortbread Tin, National Theatre Of Scotland

Excellence in Inclusivity sponsored by ATG Entertainment

• Storyhouse
• Birmingham Weekender Festival 2024, Birmingham Hippodrome
• Eat, Sleep, Move, Repeat, New Wolsey Theatre

Excellence in Sustainability

• BEAM, Hertford
• ISO14001 EMS certification, All UK ATGE Theatres
• Iron People, Northern Broadsides Theatre Company

Excellence in Workforce Culture

• Orchard Theatre & Orchard West Theatre
• Breaking The Mould – Reshaping Artistic Leadership, Stephen Joseph Theatre
• Theatr Clwyd

UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre Sponsored by Encore 

• Royal & Derngate
• Birmingham Rep
• Shakespeare North Playhouse

Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre

Carlos Acosta CBE was the 2025 recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre Award, awarded by the UK Theatre Board.