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2009 Olivier award winners

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Best new play Black Watch by Gregory Burke (Barbican)

Best director John Tiffany for Black Watch (Barbican)

Best actress Margaret Tyzack for The Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse)

Best actor Derek Jacobi for Twelfth Night (Donmar at the Wyndham's)

Best performance in a supporting role Patrick Stewart for Hamlet (Novello)

Best company performance The Histories (Roundhouse)

Best new comedy God of Carnage (Gielgud)

Best revival The Histories (Roundhouse)

Best entertainment La Clique (Hippodrome)

Best new musical Jersey Boys (Prince Edward)

Best musical revival La Cage aux Folles (Playhouse)

Best actress in a musical Elena Roger for Piaf (Donmar and Vaudeville)

Best actor in a musical Douglas Hodge for La Cage aux Folles (Playhouse)

Best supporting performance in a musical Lesli Margherita for Zorro (Garrick)

Best theatre choreographer Steven Hoggett for Black Watch (Barbican)

Best lighting design The Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse)

Best set design August: Osage County (NT)

Best costume design The Histories (Roundhouse)

Best sound design Black Watch (Barbican)

Outstanding achievement in an ­affiliate theatre The Pride (Royal Court)

Best new opera production Partenope (ENO)

Outstanding achievement in opera Edward Gardner (ENO)

Best new dance production Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal's Cafe Muller/The Rite of Spring (Sadler's Wells)

Outstanding achievement in dance Royal Ballet of Flanders for Impressing the Czar (Sadler's Wells)

Special award Sir Alan Ayckbourn

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