The Critics’s Circle Theatre Awards 2018 announced winners in London yesterday with stars including Bryan Cranston, Andrew Scott and Victoria Hamilton among those collection top honours. The full list of winners in included below along with winners interview and photocall videos.

Most promising newcomer

Sheila Atim for Girl from the North Country
Old Vic and Noel Coward Theatre, London

John McCrea for Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Sheffield Crucible and Apollo Theatre, London

Best Shakespearean performance

Andrew Scott for Hamlet
Almeida and Harold Pinter Theatre, London

Most promising playwright

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins for An Octoroon at Orange Tree Theatre 
and Gloria at Hampstead Theatre, London

Best musical

Hamilton
Victoria Palace Theatre, London

Best designer

Vicki Mortimer for Follies
National Theatre, London

Best director

Dominic Cooke for Follies
National Theatre, London

Best actress

Victoria Hamilton for Albion
Almeida Theatre, London

Best actor

Bryan Cranston for Network
National Theatre, London

Best new play

The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth
Royal Court and Gielgud Theatre, London

Special award

David Lan for services to theatre