Constable, Fry, Piper, Rosenthal, and Williams Take Olivier Design Awards

The Olivier Awards, given to honor excellence in the West End Theatre, were handed out last night. On the design front, Paule Constable won in the lighting design category for the Donmar Warehouse revival of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden; this is Constable's third win in six years. The costume designers Tom Piper and Emma Williams won for their work on Royal Shakespeare Company's The Histories, a cycle of Shakespeare's history plays. The American set designer Todd Rosenthal won for the National Theatre production of August: Osage County -- which is, essentially, a transfer of the Steppenwolf Theatre/Broadway staging. And Gareth Fry took the sound design award for Black Watch; the latter, which was been seen in New York twice, also was named best new play.

The list of winners includes:

Best Actress
Margaret Tyzack for the Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse)

Best Actor
Derek Jacobi for Twelfth Night (Donmar at Wyndham's)

Best Performance in a Supporting Role
Patrick Stewart for Hamlet (RSC at the Novello)

Best Company Performance
The Histories, directed by Michael Boyd (RSC at the Roundhouse)

Best New Play
Black Watch by Gregory Burke (Barbican Theatre)

Best New Comedy
God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton (Gielgud)

Best Revival
The Histories, directed by Michael Boyd (RSC at the Roundhouse)

Best Entertainment
La Clique (Hippodrome)

Best New Musical
Jersey Boys (Prince Edward)

Best Musical Revival
La Cage Aux Folles (Playhouse Theatre)

Best Actress in a Musical
Elena Roger for Piaf (Donmar Warehouse, then Vaudeville)

Best Actor in a Musical
Douglas Hodge for La Cage Aux Folles (Playhouse)

Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical
Lesli Margherita for Zorro (Garrick)

Best Director
John Tiffany for Black Watch (Barbican Theatre)

Best Theatre Choreographer< br> Steven Hoggett for Black Watch (Barbican Theatre)

Best Lighting Design
The Chalk Garden designed by Paule Constable (Donmar Warehouse)

Best Set Design
August: Osage County designed by Todd Rosenthal (National's Lyttelton)

Best Costume Design
The Histories designed by Tom Piper and Emma Williams (RSC at Roundhouse)

Best Sound Design
Black Watch designed by Gareth Fry (Barbican Theatre)

Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre's production of The Pride (Jerwood Theatre Upstairs)