Stage Heavyweights attend Awards

                                       The winners of the 2012 Sydney Theatre Awards have been announced with around 300 members of the Sydney theatre community attending the auditorium at Paddington RSL to cheer on their fellow thespians.
 International stage royalty presented awards including Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and Barry Humphries.
Best Mainstage Production went to Belvoir Street's Medea while Best Actor in a Leading Role of a Mainstage Production was won by Josh McConville for Griffin’s The Boys.

Angela Lansbury

Lucy Durack

James Earl Jones & wife Cecilia Hart

 Caroline Brazier won Best Actress in a Leading Role in an Independent Production for I Want To Sleep With Tom Stoppard, while James Lugton won Best Actor in a Leading Role in an Independent Production for The Taming of the Shrew.
 South Pacific was awarded Best Production of a Musical, while Lucy Durack won the Judith Johnson Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for Legally Blonde, and Ben Lewis was awarded the Judith Johnson Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Love Never Dies.


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Family Get-Together at Theatre Awards

Shaw & Garcia at the Sydney Theatre Awards

Watching and cheering on the Sydney Theatre Awards on Monday evening at the Paddington RSL was the journalist,  voice-over man and super salesman Tim Shaw best known for his "but there's more !" catch phrase in the Demtel TV advertisements. Tim is currently a broadcaster on Radio 2UE where he presents 'Legal Matters with Tim Shaw', an informative show that delves into listener's legal rights.

Lesser known is the fact that he is also a cousin of Adam Garcia, the handsome actor currently wowing audiences in Tap Dogs and the affection between the two was evident as they warmly embraced each other upon arrival at the awards.
But has Tim ever presented Adam with a set of those famous steak knives?

"not yet " says Shaw, "maybe at the next family barbecue".