21st Annual WhatsOnStage Awards live-streamed from The Turbine Theatre
March 14, 2021 Last updated:
March 15, 2021
This was, frankly, mostly a concert with the actual ‘awards’ something of an afterthought: sixteen of the twenty-one winners, or ‘Angels’, were rattled off in less than a minute. Many of the names were recognisable to people in the industry, but nothing else was said about them, or why they were nominated, which frankly felt frustrating and underwhelming, and a missed opportunity to celebrate every winner equally. As ever, the WhatsOnStage Awards featured a large number of musical performances – extracts from plays have never been a feature, though it was nice to see musical productions from outside the London bubble featured.