WOS Theatregoers' Choice Awards - nominations announced!

The nominations for this year's WhatsOnStage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards have been announced, and the Histories have received recognition in six categories.

The SPOTLIGHT Best Actress in a Play
- Deanna Dunagan – August: Osage County at the NT Lyttelton
- Katy Stephens – The Histories, RSC at the Roundhouse
- Lesley Sharp – Harper Regan at the NT Cottesloe
- Lindsay Duncan – That Face at the Duke of York’s
- Margaret Tyzack – The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse
- Penelope Wilton – The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse

The AMBASSADOR TICKETS Best Ensemble Performance
- August: Osage County – at the NT Lyttelton
- Black Watch – National Theatre of Scotland at the Barbican
- Brief Encounter – at The Cinema, Haymarket
- Into the Hoods – at the Novello
- The Histories – RSC at the Roundhouse
- The Norman Conquests – at the Old Vic

Best Shakespearean Production
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – at Shakespeare’s Globe
- Much Ado About Nothing – at the NT Olivier
- Othello – at the Donmar Warehouse
- The Histories – RSC at the Roundhouse
- The Merry Wives of Windsor – at Shakespeare’s Globe
- Twelfth Night – at the Tricycle

The SEATCHOICE Best Director
- Emma Rice – Brief Encounter at The Cinema, Haymarket
- Michael Grandage – Othello & The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse & Ivanov, Donmar West End at Wyndham’s
- Matthew Warchus – The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic
- Michael Boyd – The Histories, RSC at the Roundhouse
- Rupert Goold – The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida, Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Gielgud & No Man’s Land at the Duke of York’s
- Samuel West – Dealer’s Choice at Trafalgar Studios & Waste at the Almeida

Best Set Designer
- Eugene Lee – Imagine This at the New London
- Klara Zieglerova – Jersey Boys at the Prince Edward
- Miriam Buether – In the Red & Brown Water at the Young Vic
- Neil Murray – Brief Encounter at The Cinema, Haymarket
- Rob Howell – The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic
- Tom Piper – The Histories, RSC at the Roundhouse

The AKA Theatre Event of the Year
- David Tennant returning to the stage in Hamlet for the RSC
- The launch of the Donmar West End season at Wyndham’s
- La Clique’s London debut at the Hippodrome
- The in-the-round transformation of the Old Vic for The Norman Conquests
- The RSC’s staging of The Histories at the Roundhouse
- Widespread protests over arts funding cutbacks

Voting is open now until 31 January 2009. with the winners to be announced in the week commencing 9 February 2009. You can only vote once from each IP address, so make sure you're casting the votes you want to be casting. Tell your friends, and get voting!