2025 Laurence Olivier Awards

2025 Laurence Olivier Awards
Date	6 April 2025
Location	Royal Albert Hall
Television/radio coverage
Network	ITV (television) Magic (radio)
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The 2025 Laurence Olivier Awards are scheduled to be held on 6 April 2025 at the Royal Albert Hall.

Event calendar

• 23 June 2024: Ceremony date set for 6 April 2025 and venue confirmed as Royal Albert Hall. ^[1]
• 10 February 2025: Billy Porter & Beverley Knight announced as hosts.
• 14 February 2025: Eligibility cut-off.
• 5 March 2025: Nominations announced by Tom Francis & Nicole Scherzinger.

Eligibility

The Olivier Awards eligibility cut-off date for the 2024–25 season was 14 February, 2025 for all London productions which meet all other eligibility requirements.

Nominees

The nominations were announced in 26 categories on 4 March 2025. ^{[2] [3]}

Best New Play	Best New Musical
The Fear of 13 by Lindsey Ferrentino – Donmar Warehouse Giant by Mark Rosenblatt – Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at Royal Court Theatre Kyoto by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson – @sohoplace Shifters by Benedict Lombe – Duke of York's Theatre The Years adapted by Eline Arbo, in an English version by Stephanie Bain - Almeida Theatre and Harold Pinter Theatre	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Ambassadors Theatre MJ the Musical – Prince Edward Theatre Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – Donmar Warehouse Why Am I So Single? – Garrick Theatre
Best Revival	Best Musical Revival
The Importance of Being Earnest – National Theatre - Lyttelton Machinal – The Old Vic Oedipus – Wyndham's Theatre Waiting for Godot – Theatre Royal Haymarket	Fiddler on the Roof – Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Hello, Dolly! – London Palladium Oliver! – Gielgud Theatre Starlight Express – Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre
Best Entertainment or Comedy Play	Best Family Show
Ballet Shoes adapted by Kendall Feaver – National Theatre - Olivier Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright by Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith – Wyndham's Theatre Spirited Away adapted by John Caird & co-adapted by Maoko Imai – London Coliseum Titanique by Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle & Constantine Rousouli – Criterion Theatre	Braniac Live – Marylebone Theatre Maddie Moate's Very Curious Christmas – Apollo Theatre The Nutcracker – Polka Theatre Rough Magic – Shakespeare's Globe - Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Best Actor	Best Actress
Adrien Brody as Nick Yarris in The Fear of 13 – Donmar Warehouse Billy Crudup as Harry Clarke in Harry Clarke – Ambassadors Theatre Paapa Essiedu as Delroy in Death of England: Delroy – @sohoplace John Lithgow as Roald Dahl in Giant – Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at Royal Court Theatre Mark Strong as Oedipus in Oedipus – Wyndham's Theatre	Heather Agyepong as Des in Shifters – Duke of York's Theatre Lesley Manville as Jocasta in Oedipus – Wyndham's Theatre Rosie Sheehy as Young Woman in Machinal – The Old Vic Meera Syal as Queenie in A Tupperware of Ashes – National Theatre - Dorfman Indira Varma as Jocasta in Oedipus – The Old Vic
Best Actor in a Musical	Best Actress in a Musical
John Dagleish as Benjamin Button in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Ambassadors Theatre Adam Dannheisser as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Myles Frost as Michael Jackson in MJ the Musical - Prince Edward Theatre Simon Lipkin as Fagin in Oliver! - Gielgud Theatre Jamie Muscato as Anatole Kuragin in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 - Donmar Warehouse	Chumisa Dornford-May as Natasha Rostova in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 - Donmar Warehouse Lauren Drew as Céline Dion in Titanique - Criterion Theatre Clare Foster as Elowen Keene in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Ambassadors Theatre Lara Pulver as Golde in Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Imelda Staunton as Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly! - London Palladium
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Jorge Bosch as Raúl Estrada-Oyuela in Kyoto - @sohoplace Tom Edden as Lucky in Waiting for Godot - Theatre Royal Haymarket Elliot Levy as Tom Maschler in Giant - Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at Royal Court Theatre Ben Whishaw as Actor in Bluets - Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at Royal Court Theatre	Sharon D. Clarke as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest - National Theatre - Lyttelton Romola Garai as Jessie Stone in Giant - Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at Royal Court Theatre Romola Garai as Woman in The Years - Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter Theatre Gina McKee as Woman in The Years - Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter Theatre
Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical	Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical
Andy Nyman as Horace Vandergelder in Hello, Dolly! - London Palldium Raphael Papo as The Fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Layton Williams as The Iceberg in Titanique - Criterion Theatre Tom Xander as Damian Hubbard in Mean Girls - Savoy Theatre	Liv Andrusier as Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Amy Di Bartolomeo as Emily Charlton in The Devil Wears Prada - Dominion Theatre Beverley Klein as Yente in Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Maimuna Memon as Sonya Rostova in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 - Donmar Warehouse
Best Director	Best Theatre Choreographer
Eline Arbo for The Years - Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter Theatre Jordan Fein for Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Nicholas Hytner for Giant - Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at Royal Court Theatre Robert Icke for Oedipus - Wyndham's Theatre	Matthew Bourne for Oliver! - Gielgud Theatre Julia Cheng for Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Hofesh Shechter for Oedipus - The Old Vic Christopher Wheeldon for MJ the Musical - Prince Edward Theatre
Best Set Design	Best Costume Design
Jon Bausor for Set Design; Toby Olié & Daisy Beattie for Puppetry Design and Satoshi Kuriyama for Production Design for Spirited Away - London Coliseum Frankie Bradshaw for Set Design for Ballet Shoes - National Theatre - Olivier Es Devlin for Set Design for Coriolanus - National Theatre - Olivier Tom Scutt for Set Design for Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre	Hugh Durrant for Robin Hood - London Palladium Sachiko Nakahara for Spirited Away - London Coliseum Tom Scutt for Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Gabriella Slade for Starlight Express - Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre
Best Lighting Design	Best Sound Design
Paule Constable & Ben Jacobs for Oliver! - Gielgud Theatre Howard Hudson for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 - Donmar Warehouse Howard Hudson for Starlight Express - Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre Aideen Malone for Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre	Nick Lidster for Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Christopher Shutt for Oedipus - The Old Vic Thijs van Vuure for The Years - Almeida Theatre & Harold Pinter Theatre Koichi Yamamoto for Spirited Away - London Coliseum
Outstanding Musical Contribution
Mark Aspinall for Musical Supervision & Additional Orchestrations for Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Darren Clark for Music Supervision, Orchestrations and Mark Aspinall for Musical Direction, Music Supervision, Orchestrations & Arrangements for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Ambassadors Theatre Dave Malloy for Orchestrations and Nicholas Skilbeck for Musical Supervision for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 - Donmar Warehouse Asaf Zohar for Compositions and Gavin Sutherland for Dance Arrangements & Orchestration for Ballet Shoes - National Theatre - Olivier
Best New Dance Production	Outstanding Achievement in Dance
Assembly Hall by Kidd Pivot, Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young - Sadler's Wells Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada - Pite/Kudelka/Portner by The National Ballet of Canada - Sadler's Wells Theatre of Dreams by Hofesh Shechter Company - Sadler's Wells An Untitled Love by A.I.M by Kyle Abraham - Sadler's Wells	Sarah Chun for her performance in Three Short Ballets - Royal Opera House - Linbury Theatre Tom Visser for his Lighting Design of Angels' Atlas as part of Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada - Pite/Kudelka/Portner - Sadler's Wells Eva Yerbabuena for her performance in Yerbagüena - Sadler's Wells
Best New Opera Production	Outstanding Achievement in Opera
Duke Bluebeard's Castle by English National Opera - London Coliseum Festen by Royal Opera House - Royal Opera House L'Olimpiade by Irish National Opera & The Royal Opera - Royal Opera House The Tales of Hoffmann by The Royal Opera - Royal Opera House	Aigul Akhmetshina for her performance in Carmen - Royal Opera House Allan Clayton for his performance in Festen - Royal Opera House Jung Young-doo for his direction of Lear - Barbican Theatre
Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre
Animal Farm - Theatre Royal Stratford East Boys on the Verge of Tears - Soho Theatre English - Kiln Theatre Now, I See - Theatre Royal Stratford East What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank - Marylebone Theatre
Special Recognition Award

See also

• 78th Tony Awards

References

1. "Olivier Awards sets 2025 date and venue". 23 July 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
2. Wiegand, Chris (4 March 2025). "Fiddler on the Roof up for 13 Olivier awards and Romola Garai nominated twice in same category". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 8 March 2025.
3. Marshall, Alex (4 March 2025). "Olivier Awards: 'Fiddler on the Roof' Secures Most Nominations". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 8 March 2025.

External links

• Olivier Awards official website