Gillian Anderson and Tom Hiddleston have taken the top acting honours at this year's London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Anderson won for her role as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire - a part she had coveted for 30 years.
Hiddleston won for his title role in Coriolanus.
The awards, at the London Palladium, included a surprise appearance by singer Kate Bush, whose comeback series of concerts were given a special award.
Her Before the Dawn shows at the Hammersmith Apollo won the editor's award for creating "a new high in music performance".
After receiving the award from Sir Ian McKellen, Bush thanked her audiences for "driving us on and filling us with energy".
The award for best play went to Rona Munro's epic trilogy The James Plays, while The Scottsboro Boys won best musical.
Jeremy Herrin was awarded the prize for best director for his RSC productions of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
Actress Laura Jane Matthewson won the emerging talent award for her performance in Dogfight, based on the 1991 River Phoenix film, at the Southwark Playhouse.
The best design category was won by Es Devlin for American Pyscho.
At the end of the ceremony - presented by Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon - playwright Tom Stoppard received a lifetime achievement award.
The 2014 winners:
- Best Actor: Tom Hiddleston (Coriolanus, Donmar Warehouse)
- Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress: Gillian Anderson (A Streetcar Named Desire, Young Vic)
- NOOK Award for Best Play: The James Plays (Rona Munro, Edinburgh Festival Theatre & National Theatre's Olivier)
- Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical: The Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic & Garrick)
- Milton Shulman Award for Best Director: Jeremy Herrin (Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies, RSC Swan & Aldwych)
- Emerging Talent Award in Partnership with Burberry: Laura Jane Matthewson (Dogfight, Southwark Playhouse)
- Best Design in Partnership with Heal's: Es Devlin (American Psycho, Almeida)
- Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright: Beth Steel (Wonderland, Hampstead)
- Lebedev Award: Tom Stoppard (The greatest living playwright)
- Editor's Award: Kate Bush for Before the Dawn (A new high in music performance)
- Beyond Theatre: Here Lies Love (For pushing the boundaries of the musical)
- Revival of the Year: Skylight
Gillian Anderson wins theatre award
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