The Encounter Takes Best Design Award at Evening Standard Awards

The 62nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards announced its winners at a ceremony in London's Old Vic, on November 13. The Encounter's Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin took home the award for Best Design -- specifically, sound design, as The Encounter whisks its audiences into the Amazon through the use of individual headsets.

Additional winners include:

Best Actor
Ralph Fiennes, The Master Builder

Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress
Billie Piper, Yerma

Best Musical Performance
Glenn Close, Sunset Boulevard

Best Play
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jack Thorne, J K Rowling, John Tiffany

Best Musical
Jesus Christ Superstar

Milton Shulman Award for Best Director
John Malkovich, Good Canary

Best Revival
No Man's Land, Wyndham's

Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright
Charlene James, Cuttin' It

Emerging Talent Award in Partnership with Burberry
Tyrone Huntley, Jesus Christ Superstar

The Encounter is currently running on Broadway. Glenn will reprise her Sunset Boulevard performance in New York beginning in February. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is widely rumored to be coming to New York in the 2017-18 season. This production of No Man's Land, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, played Broadway in 2013.

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