This year’s awards will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on the 6th April.
It has been announced that Olivier and MOBO Award winner Beverley Knight & Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award winner Billy Porter will co-host this year’s Olivier Awards, celebrating British Theatre in the last 12 months.
Beverly Knight is a three-time Olivier Award nominee, with her last being nominated in 2023 for her performance in in Sylvia and is soon to make her professional play debut in Marie and Rosetta at the Rose Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre. Talking about the news she said: “I am so chuffed to be hosting this year’s Olivier Awards! I’m even more excited to be hosting alongside Billy Porter who is a phenomenal talent. It is an honour to be asked to hold the reins of such an important and prestigious night of celebrating theatre.”
International star of stage and screen, Billy Porter is a Primetime Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner, currently starring in the multi-Olivier Award-winning Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in the West End. Porter commented: “I am thrilled and honoured to host the Olivier Awards alongside the fantastic Beverley Knight. I’m so grateful for the warm welcome from the London theatre community, and am looking forward to a magnificent evening!”
First created in 1976, the Olivier Awards were renamed in 1984 in honour of Laurence Olivier. Mastercard returns once more as headline sponsor and will again sponsor the Best New Musical Award. Nominees for this year’s awards will be announced soon. ]
The creative team behind the awards includes: Anthony Van Laast, choreographer of hit West End shows MAMMA MIA! and Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, for a third year as Creative Show Director, alongside renowned conductor and arranger Gareth Valentine (Wicked, Cats, Miss Saigon) for the second year, with orchestrator Mark Cumberland and lighting designer Ben Cracknell.
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