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Kristin Scott Thomas, Gillian Anderson, Billie Piper and Tom Hiddleston are among the stars who will vie for honours at the 60th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

The ceremony, to be presented by Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon at the London Palladium, will see some of the biggest names in Britain battle it out with newcomers and other unsung heroes and heroines of the stage.

Headline-grabbing performances by Scott Thomas in Electra and Piper in Richard Bean’s hacking scandal drama, Great Britain, are joined by Helen McCrory in Medea and Gillian Anderson in A Streetcar Named Desire for the coveted best actress award.

But performances in newer and smaller venues are not overlooked as the big names are joined by Tanya Moodie for Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel — which is also in the running for the Nook award for best play — at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park.

Hiddleston, who swapped comic hero fame in Thor for Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, faces competition for best actor from Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell in the epic double bill of Tudor life, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, and Mark Strong, whose portrayal of Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge at the Young Vic is being reprised in the West End next year.

Dogfight, from the Southwark Playhouse hit factory, is in the running for best musical against Here Lies Love, by David Byrne, Sunny Afternoon, based on the songs of The Kinks, and The Scottsboro Boys, the daring show inspired by a miscarriage of justice.

Dogfight’s star, Laura Jane Matthewson, and John Dagleish, who plays Kinks founder Ray Davies in Sunny Afternoon, are contenders for the emerging talent award, presented in partnership with Burberry. The other nominees are Robert Hastie, director of My Night With Reg, and Matthew Beard, who appeared in Skylight with Stephen Daldry, who is up for best director.

The best play category includes two royal epics, The James Plays trilogy and King Charles III, alongside one of the year’s most disturbing productions in Jennifer Haley’s dystopian drama exploring paedophilia, The Nether, a Royal Court production also getting a commercial transfer.

There will be four further Evening Standard awards on the night. Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Evening Standard, Anna Wintour, Condé Nast artistic director, and Christopher Bailey, Burberry chief creative and chief executive officer, will co-host the awards on November 30, with live coverage on the night at standard.co.uk/showbiz and full coverage in the paper the next day.

The Evening Standard’s Get Reading campaign partner NOOK is supporting the awards to underline the importance of literacy in developing the next generation of dramatic talent by sponsoring the NOOK Award for Best Play.

The shortlist

BEST ACTOR

Tom Hiddleston, Coriolanus, Donmar Warehouse

Ben Miles, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, RSC Swan and Aldwych

Mark Strong, A View From The Bridge, Young Vic

NATASHA RICHARDSON AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS

Gillian Anderson, A Streetcar Named Desire, Young Vic

Helen McCrory, Medea, National Theatre’s Olivier

Tanya Moodie, Intimate Apparel, Ustinov Bath and Park Theatre

Billie Piper, Great Britain, National Theatre’s Lyttelton

Kristin Scott Thomas, Electra, Old Vic

NOOK AWARD FOR BEST PLAY

Intimate Apparel, Lynn Nottage, Ustinov Bath and Park Theatre

The James Plays, Rona Munro, Edinburgh Festival Theatre and National Theatre’s Olivier

King Charles III, Mike Bartlett, Almeida and Wyndham’s

The Nether, Jennifer Haley, Royal Court

MILTON SHULMAN AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR

Stephen Daldry, Skylight, Wyndham’s

Yaël Farber, The Crucible, Old Vic

Jeremy Herrin, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, RSC Swan and Aldwych

Ivo van Hove, A View From The Bridge, Young Vic

CHARLES WINTOUR AWARD FOR MOST PROMISING PLAYWRIGHT

Barney Norris, Visitors, Arcola

Dan O’Brien, The Body Of An American, Northampton Royal & Derngate and Gate Notting Hill

Beth Steel, Wonderland, Hampstead

NED SHERRIN AWARD FOR BEST MUSICAL

Dogfight, Southwark Playhouse

Here Lies Love, National Theatre’s Dorfman

The Scottsboro Boys, Young Vic and Garrick

Sunny Afternoon, Hampstead and Harold Pinter Theatre

BEST DESIGN, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HEAL’S

Bunny Christie, Emil And The Detectives, National Theatre’s Olivier

Es Devlin, American Psycho, Almeida

Mark Henderson, (lighting), Kate Bush’s Before The Dawn, Eventim Apollo

Ashley Martin-Davis, Wonderland, Hampstead

EMERGING TALENT AWARD, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BURBERRY

Matthew Beard for his performance in Skylight, Wyndham’s

John Dagleish for his performance in Sunny Afternoon, Hampstead and Harold Pinter Theatre

Robert Hastie for his direction of My Night With Reg, Donmar Warehouse

Laura Jane Matthewson for her performance in Dogfight, Southwark Playhousestandard.co.uk/showbiz