Shanay Holmes, Beverley Knight and Jay Perry were among the winners at the 2025 Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs).
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Black British Theatre Awards 2024 – the winners
MJ The Musical and West End Musical Productions’ Shanay Holmes and Chris Steward were among the winners at the 2024 Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs).
Black British Theatre Awards – winners announced
The Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs), recognising some of the finest work by Black performers and creatives in UK Theatre, were handed out at a star-packed ceremony in the Lyttelton Theatre at the National Theatre.
Black British Theatre Awards nominees – Tina: The Tina Turner Musical leads the way
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical leads the way in the nominations for the Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs). The hit West End show which is currently in its fifth year at the Aldwych Theatre tops the list of nominees for the fifth annual awards with five nominations. Tina’s closest musical theatre rival on the shortlist is Matilda The Musical at the Cambridge Theatre with a total of three nominations.
Musicals Mash Up: 23-30 October 2022
Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports.
Black British Theatre Awards 2022 – nominees announced
The Royal Court’s production of For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy and Hope Mill Theatre’s production of The Wiz lead the way in the shortlist for the 2022 Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs). Both productions have received six nominations, with Matthew Xia (The Wiz, Hope Mill Theatre) and […]
Cinderella’s Ivano Turco & Caleb Roberts are among the winners at the Black British Theatre Awards 2021
There was a double win for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical Cinderella at the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards with two members of the cast – Ivano Turco and Caleb Roberts – winning acting prizes. Decided entirely by public vote, the awards took place at the illustrious Old Finsbury Town Hall, London, hosted by Grammy, […]
Cynthia Erivo and Danny Sapani to co-host Black British Theatre Awards
Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award-winner Cynthia Erivo and Black Panther, Star Wars and Killing Eve actor Danny Sapani will co-host the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) on 21 November 2021. Commenting on the awards, stage and screen star Erivo said: “I am so proud as a Black British actress to return from Los Angeles to the […]
Five Questions With: Nicholas McLean
NICHOLAS MCLEAN is starring in West End Acoustic – an unplugged celebration of popular musicals presented by New Frame Productions – at London’s Riverside Studios on 8 December 2020 alongside Maiya Quansah-Breed, Renée Lamb, Nicholas McLean and Sam Tutty, with musical direction by Chris Poon. Nicholas’ credits include Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre – Black British Theatre […]
Black British Theatre Awards 2020 to air on Sky Arts
Hamilton, Thriller Live and Tina – The Tina Turner Musical are in the running for the Best Musical Production Award at the 2020 Black British Theatre Awards in late October. Following on from last year’s inaugural live ceremony, the winner of the Best Musical category will be announced during a special socially distanced event at […]
