The London newspaper’s annual theatre honors are making headlines with the Best Actor category, whose eight finalists include Kevin Spacey, Alan Rickman, Kenneth Branagh and Simon Russell Beale. Other nominees include veteran actresses Margaret Tyzack and Penelope Wilton, the plays Black Watch and Her Naked Skin, and the musicals La Cage aux Folles and Jersey Boys; Rickman lands a second nomination in the Best Director category (for Creditors at the Donmar).