It’s been quite the year, it’s almost Christmas and what would the festive season be without some recognition of the best of 2023? Over the next month we’ll shortlist five nominees in each of 16 categories for our Oscars, or monstas if you will, of 2023.

• Read on for the nominees for the monsta for Best Performance Of A Song of 2023 Previous winners 2022 World Of Colour (Fantastically Great Women, Theatre Royal Stratford East), 2021: Cabaret by Jessie Buckley, 2020: A Summer In Ohio by Molly Lynch (The Last Five Years, Southwark Playhouse), 2019: I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman (& Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre), 2018: Getting Married Today (Company, Gielgud Theatre), 2017: Tight Connection To My Heart (Girl From the North Country, Old Vic)