Tennant's Hamlet up for people's awards

David Tennant is up for two awards in the only theatre honours voted for by the public.

The Doctor Who star's return to the stage in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Hamlet has been nominated as the theatre event of the year in the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards.

It sold out in Stratford-upon-Avon and has done so again for the London run which started this week. His rivals for the award include the RSC's staging of Shakespeare's eight history plays at the Roundhouse.

Tennant last week presented Michael Boyd, RSC artistic director, with a special editor's award for them at the Standard's theatre awards. Hamlet is also up for the best regional production. Initial voting took place before the play transferred to the West End.

The playwriting debut of Standard theatre critic Nicholas de Jongh, Plague Over England, is in the running for best off-West End production.