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Sydney Theatre Awards

The dominance of AMPAG companies at the Sydney Theatre Awards continues this year with Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare and Belvoir creatives nominated 44 times in the local awards.

Belvoir has nominations for many of the celebrated productions of its 2011 season: The Dark Room, The Wild Duck, The Seagull, Neighbourhood Watch, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Cut. The Dark Room, a new play by Angela Betzien, is the surprise leader in the nomination tally considering it ran in the tiny Downstairs Belvoir theatre. It has seven nominations across the categories, including vying for Best New Australian Work up against two other Belvoir offerings (Cut and Neighbourhood Watch) and Griffin Theatre Company’s Silent Disco.

Bell Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing will compete for Best Mainstage Production with a number of Bell performers also nominated across the acting categories for Much Ado and Julius Caesar.

Sydney Theatre Company has an eclectic mix of nominees with Gross und Klein, Baal, In the next Room, or the vibrator play, Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Lonelinees, Bloodland, The White Guard, and The Threepenny Opera all receiving recognition for production excellence. Simon Stone is nominated twice in the Best Director of a Mainstage Production category for work with Belvoir and Sydney Theatre Company.

The Sydney Theatre Awards will be held on Monday January 16, 2012 at 6pm at the Paddington RSL.