The UK Theatre Awards, established in 1991 and known before 2011 as the TMA Awards, are presented annually by UK Theatre (formerly the Theatrical Management Association) in recognition of creative excellence and outstanding work in regional theatre throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Past winning productions Year Best New Play Best Musical Best Show for Children and Young PeopleBest Touring Production2025Flumps by Emma Jo Pallett, a Mercury Theatre Original production in association with The ThelmasJesus Christ Superstar, a Watermill Theatre production by arrangement with LW EntertainmentPig Heart Boy, a Children's Theatre Partnership, Unicorn Theatre & Sheffield Theatres co-productionn/a2024Swim, Aunty, Swim!, a Belgrade Theatre production in association with tiata fahodziOliver!, a Leeds Playhouse production by special arrangement with Cameron Mackintosh Beauty And The Beast, a Stephen Joseph Theatre production n/a2023Enough Of Him, a National Theatre of Scotland and Pitlochry Festival Theatre co-productionGypsy, a The Mill at Sonning production The SpongeBob Musical, a Showpath Entertainment productionn/a2022Mugabe, My Dad & Me, an ETT, Brixton House & York Theatre Royal in association with Alison Holder co-productionBilly Elliot The Musical, a Made at Curve productionFantastically Great Women Who Changed The World, a Kenny Wax Family Entertainment in association with MAST Mayflower Studiosn/a2019Life of Pi adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti, a Sheffield Theatres productionStanding At The Sky’s Edge a Sheffield Theatres productionBillionaire Boy The Musical a Nuffield Southampton Theatres production in association with Belgrade Theatre, Coventryn/a2018The Almighty Sometimes a Royal Exchange Theatre productionThe Assassination of Katie Hopkins, a Theatr Clwyd productionThe Little Mermaid, a The Egg – Theatre Royal Bath and Pins and Needles co-productionThree Sisters, a RashDash and Royal Exchange Theatre co-production2017Narvik by Lizzie Nunnery, a Box of Tricks productionEverybody's Talking About Jamie, a Sheffield Theatres productionThe Snow Queen, a New Vic Theatre productionThe Who’s Tommy, a New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and Ramps on the Moon co-production2016Cuttin' It by Charlene James, a Young Vic/Royal Court Theatre co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and The Yard TheatreFlowers for Mrs Harris, a Sheffield Theatres Production
Show Boat, a Sheffield Theatres productionThe Hobbit, a The Dukes productionThe Herbal Bed, a co-production by Royal & Derngate Northampton, English Touring Theatre and Rose Theatre Kingston2015Iphigenia in Splott a Sherman Cymru productionGypsy, a Chichester Festival Theatre productionRunning Wild, a Chichester Festival Youth Theatre production Twelfth Night, an English Touring Theatre and Sheffield Theatres production2014An August Bank Holiday Lark by Deborah McAndrew, a Northern Broadsides production in partnership with New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on tourBrass, a National Youth Music Theatre production at City varieties Music Hall, LeedsDragon, a National Theatre of Scotland, Vox Motus and Tianjin People's Art Theatre, China production, at the Citizens Theatre and Traverse TheatreTranslations, English Touring Theatre2013Bull a Sheffield Theatres productionThis Is My Family, a Sheffield Theatres productionThe Borrowers, a Northern Stage, Newcastle production and Mister Holgado, a Unicorn Theatre productionThe Full Monty, a Sheffield Theatres production, presented by David Pugh (theatre producer) and Dafydd Rogers2012In The Next Room a Theatre Royal Bath production in the Ustinov StudioThe Go-Between, a West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Derby LIVE! production at West Yorkshire Playhouse The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean by Shona Reppe on tourAnne Boleyn - English Touring Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare's Globe production2011Love, Love, Love, a Drum Theatre Plymouth and Paines Plough production at the Drum Theatre Plymouth, and on tourMatilda the Musical, an RSC production at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon White a Catherine Wheels productionRichard III and The Comedy of Errors: both Propeller productions, in association with The Touring Partnership, on tour 2010Spur of the Moment at The Royal CourtSweeney Todd - a Dundee Rep Ensemble production, at Dundee RepPobby and Dingan - a Catherine Wheels Theatre Company production, in association with Brunton Theatre, MusselburghThe Empire – a Royal Court Theatre and Drum Theatre Plymouth production2009ENRON a Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre production at Chichester Festival TheatreSpend Spend Spend at Watermill, NewburyFor The Best Presented by the Unicorn Theatre in collaboration with Mark Storor and Anna LedgardNoël Coward's Brief Encounter, David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers and Cineworld present The Kneehigh Theatre Production in a co production with Royal and Derngate Northampton 2008 The Pitman Painters at Live Theatre, Newcastle Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi at the Playhouse, Liverpool Looking for JJ adapted from Anne Cassidy's novel by Marcus Romer at the Pilot Theatre 2007 That Face at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Sunshine on Leith at Dundee Rep Citizens' Theatre/Tag's Yellow Moon (The Ballad Of Leila And Lee) at the Citizens', Glasgow and tour 2006 Rubenstein Kiss by James Phillips at Hampstead Theatre Road To Nowhere at the Lyric Hammersmith National Theatre of Scotland and Improbable's The Wolves In The Walls on tour 2005 Pyrenees by David Greig, Tron Theatre Company and Paines Plough How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying at the Festival Theatre, Chichester Alice's Adventures In Wonderland at Bristol Old Vic 2004 The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs The Hired Man at Salisbury Playhouse Arthur, The Story Of A King, Wee Stories & The Scottish Touring Consortium co-created by Andy Cannon, Iain Johnstone and David Trouton 2003 The Breathing House by Peter Arnott, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, EdinburghSweet Charity at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield Tom's Midnight Garden by Library Theatre Company, Manchester 2002 Gagarin Way Traverse Theatre Company in association with the National Theatre Studio on tour Fiddler On The Roof a Watermill West Berkshire Playhouse production Lifeboat by Nicola McCartney, Catherine Wheels Theatre Company in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh on tour 2001 Splendour in association with the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust on tour The Gondoliers at The Watermill West Berkshire PlayhouseThe Unicorn Theatre's Tom's Midnight Garden 2000 Larkin With Women at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough Anonymous Society produced by Start at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith Under The Apple Tree devised by Paul Harman, Philip Harrison and David Tarkenter for ctc on tour 1999 The Palace Theatre Watford production of The Late Middle Classes subsequently toured nationally by the Ambassador Theatre GroupBirmingham Repertory Theatre and Tamasha Theatre Company's Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings And A Funeral at Birmingham Repertory Theatre The Young Vic Theatre Company's Arabian Nights at the Young Vic and on tour, in association with Warwick Arts Centre and Darren Ockert Productions 1998 Frozen by Bryony Lavery at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Spend Spend Spend! at West Yorkshire Playhouse Oxford Stage Company's Junk 1997 Popcorn by Ben Elton, a co-production between Nottingham Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse Divorce Me Darling book, music and lyrics by Sandy Wilson at Chichester Festival Theatre Beauty And The Beast at the Young Vic, London 1996 Divine Right by Peter Whelan at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre By Jeeves at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough Peter Pan at West Yorkshire Playhouse 1995 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, adapted by Harry Gibson, at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Moll Flanders at the Theatre Royal, York The Red Balloon at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre 1994 Hated Nightfall by Howard Barker, co-produced by the Royal Court and the Wrestling School, on tour Assassins at the Library Theatre, Manchester Two Weeks With The Queen coproduced by the Royal National Theatre and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough 1993 Lost In Yonkers presented by Duncan C Weldon, on tour Me And My Girl a Richard Armitage/Noel Gay Organisation production presented by Pola Jones and Farworlds Ltd, on tour The Royal National Theatre's production of Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays 1992 The Choice at Salisbury Playhouse Into The Woods at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich The Magic Storybook by Renata Allen, Oxford Stage Company and Oxford Playhouse 1991 Donny Boy at Manchester Royal Exchange Sweeney Todd at Oldham Coliseum Monty Moonbeam's Magnificent Mission at the Swan Theatre, Worcester
Past winning performers
Year Best Performance in a Play Best Performance in a Musical Best Supporting Performance in a Play Best Supporting Performance in a Musical2023Daniel Rigby for Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, a Sheffield Theatres and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre co-production in association with Playful ProductionsLena Hall for In Dreams, a Leeds Playhouse production Antony Eden for Family Album, a Stephen Joseph Theatre production2022Giles Terera for The Meaning of Zong, a Bristol Old Vic ProductionDivina de Campo for Hedwig and the Angry Inch a Leeds Playhouse and HOME co-productionNishla Smith for Kes an Octagon Theatre and Theatre By The Lake co-production2019Hiran Abeysekera for Life Of Pi a Sheffield Theatres productionRebecca Trehearn for Sweet Charity a Nottingham Playhouse productionEsh Alladi for Hobson’s Choice a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production2018Denise Black for The Cherry Orchard a Sherman Theatre productionAshley Zhangazha for Guys And Dolls a Royal Exchange Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company co-productionGemma Dobson for Rita, Sue And Bob Too a Royal Court, Out of Joint and Octagon Theatre, Bolton production2017Joseph Millson for The Rover a Royal Shakespeare Company productionJohn McCrea for Everybody's Talking About Jamie a Sheffield Theatres productionSharon Duncan-Brewster for A Streetcar Named Desire a Royal Exchange Theatre production2016Paapa Essiedu for Hamlet, a Royal Shakespeare Company productionClare Burt for Flowers for Mrs Harris, a Sheffield Theatres ProductionRebecca Trehearn for Show Boat, a Sheffield Theatres production2015Joel MacCormack for Each His Own Wilderness, an Orange Tree Theatre production