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Entertainment

Evening Standard theatre awards ceremony – in pictures

Standard Theatre Awards: James Corden hosts the 58th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards
James Corden hosts the 58th London Evening Standard theatre awards at the Savoy hotel in London
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Evening Standard Awards : Sir Ian McKellen presents the Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull award
Sir Ian McKellen prepares to present the Moscow Art theatre's Golden Seagull award to Judi Dench
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Evening Standard Awards : Dame Judi Dench accepts the Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull award
... and here's Dench accepting
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Evening Standard Awards : Nick Payne (R) accepts the award for Best Play
Nick Payne (right) accepts the award for best play for Constellations from Ralph Fiennes
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Evening Standard Awards : Hattie Morahan (R) accepts the Natasha Richardson award for Best Actress
Hattie Morahan accepts the Natasha Richardson award for best actress for A Doll's House from presenter Damian Lewis – beating Cate Blanchett into the bargain
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Evening Standard Awards : Nicholas Hytner accept the award for Best Director
Nicholas Hytner accepts the best director award, taking the opportunity to attack cuts in funding. “There are 14 million people coming into London to buy theatre tickets every year," he said. "It is completely crazy to think we might do anything to undermine this"
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Evening Standard Awards : Simon Russell Beale accepts the Best Actor award
Continuing a fine evening for the National, Simon Russell Beale accepts the best actor award, this time for his turn as Stalin in the theatre's production of Collaborators
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Evening Standard Awards : Danny Boyle (C) and his team from the London 2012 Opening Ceremony
Danny Boyle (centre) and his team from the London 2012 opening ceremony accept the Beyond Theatre award
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Evening Standard Awards : Lolita Chakrabarti accepts the Award for Most Promising Playwright
Lolita Chakrabarti wins the Charles Wintour award for most promising playwright for her play Red Velvet, which retold the story of the unsung nineteenth-century African American actor Ira Aldridge
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Standard Theatre Awards: Evgeny Lebedev, Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen
Since the awards have come under the control of Russian billionaire Evgeny Lebedev (left), they seem to have become glitzier than ever
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Evening Standard Awards : Jourdan Dunn attends an after party
Also present was model Jourdan Dunn, snapped here at an afterparty
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Standard Theatre Awards: Ruth Wilson (L) and Gemma Arterton attend an after party
Actors Ruth Wilson and Gemma Arterton, pictured after the ceremony
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Evening Standard Awards : The 58th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards winers
Winning team (from left to right): Nicholas Hytner, Lolita Chakrabarti, David Hare, Michael Ball, Jonathan Kent, Imelda Staunton, Matthew Tennyson, Simon Russell Beale, Soutra Gilmour, Hattie Morahan and Nick Payne
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