Coleman and Tennant honouring among stars stage talent at our awards

TOM HIDDLESTON, Jenna Coleman, Sheila Atim and David Tennant are among the stars celebrating London's stage talent at the 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards on Sunday.

- Robert Dex

They will be at the event at Claridge's joining Tuppence Middleton, Omari Douglas, Layton Williams, Hayley Atwell, Jake Shears and his Cabaret co-star Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, among others, to hand out awards.

The event, hosted by the newspaper's proprietor Lord Lebedev with the help of Ian McKellen, is presented by Susan Wokoma. The writer and actor, who played Edith in the Enola Holmes films and whose stage work includes appearances at the Bush, the National and the Royal Court, is about to start work on Three Weeks which she will direct and star in.

She said: "Theatre is always a labour of love and London stages have faced their fair share of difficulties in the last few years.