A glittering list of guest presenters for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards is announced today.
Romola Garai, Anna Chancellor and Dominic West, stars of the BBC drama The Hour, will be reunited as they hand out three of the prestigious prizes at the gala ceremony on Sunday.
Garai, 29, will present the award for best play. Richard Bean, nominated for both One Man, Two Guvnors and The Heretic, is up against Tribes by Nina Raine and Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo.
The Wire star West, 42, who had a big hit in Simon Gray's Butley and is starring in the film The Awakening, will announce the Natasha Richardson award for best actress.
The winner will be chosen from Betrayal star Kristin Scott Thomas, Sheridan Smith for Flare Path and Samantha Spiro for the revival of Arnold Wesker's East End drama Chicken Soup with Barley.
Chancellor, who is appearing in The Last Of The Duchess at the Hampstead Theatre, will co-present the Milton Shulman award for outstanding newcomer to one of husband and wife Kyle Soller and Phoebe Fox, Malachi Kirby or David Wilson Barnes.
Comedy star Miranda Hart will announce the Ned Sherrin award for best musical. The shortlist is made up of Cameron Mackintosh's Betty Blue Eyes, London Road - about the community reaction to the Ipswich prostitute murders - and Matilda the Musical, the Royal Shakespeare Company's version of the Roald Dahl story.
More presenters will be announced this week for categories including best actor prize, in which the two stars who took turns to play Frankenstein and his monster creation in Danny Boyle's production of Mary Shelley's classic tale will go head to head - Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch. They are up against Bertie Carvel for his cross-dressing Miss Trunchbull in Matilda and Charles Edwards for his Benedick in the Globe's Much Ado About Nothing.
This year's awards at the Savoy Hotel are in association with Vogue and sponsored by Hobbs and American Airlines. They will be hosted by Barry Humphries's alter ego Dame Edna Everage.
