Andrew Scott and Ian McKellen Win at Olivier Awards as UK Theaters Remain Shut - Hollywood Reporter

Andrew Scott and Ian McKellen were among acting winners as Britain's Laurence Olivier Awards celebrated the best of the London stage in bittersweet fashion Sunday night — most U.K.

Fleabag star Scott was named best actor in a play for his turn as a narcissistic actor in Noel Coward's Present Laughter. Sharon D.

Clarke won the best actress prize for her performance as an American matriarch in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt, which addresses history and the Holocaust through the story of a Viennese Jewish family, was named best new play.

Director Jamie Lloyd's production of Cyrano de Bergerac, starring James McAvoy, was named best revival of a play, while a Trevor Nunn-directed production of Fiddler on the Roof took the prize for best musical revival.

Prince Charles' wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, presented lyricist Don Black with a special Olivier Award for a six-decade career that includes lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals such as Sunset Boulevard and Starlight Express and James Bond themes including Thunderball and Diamonds Are Forever

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