Musical hit Matilda has been honoured at this year's South Bank Sky Arts Awards, winning the theatre prize.
The show, which picked up seven Olivier awards last month, beat the National Theatre's One Man, Two Guvnors and the Royal Court's Constellations to the prize.
Kate Bush triumphed over Adele and PJ Harvey to win the pop music prize, while Sherlock was named best TV drama.
Lord Melvyn Bragg hosted the 16th annual awards at a London ceremony.
Celebrating the best of British culture, the awards span 11 categories which also include film, opera, dance, classical music and comedy.
The acclaimed adaptation of Lionel Shriver novel We Need to Talk About Kevin won the best film category, beating Joe Cornish's Attack The Block and Formula One documentary Senna.
While Channel 4 series Fresh Meat was awarded the comedy prize.
Other awards went to Grayson Perry, who won the visual art award for his Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman exhibition at the British Museum.
The English National Opera won the opera award for its production of The Damnation of Faust and the company also bagged the dance prize for The Metamorphosis.
Claire Tomalin was awarded the literature prize for her biography of Charles Dickens while Welsh pianist took the classical music award for his performances of Beethoven's complete Piano Sontat Cycle.
The outstanding achievement award went to Noises Off author Michael Frayn, presented by Sir Tom Stoppard.
The ceremony will be broadcast on Sky Arts 1 at 21:00 BST on Tuesday.
Last November the satellite channel announced it was bringing back the South Bank Show, after the arts programme was cancelled by ITV in 2010 after 32 years on screen.
The new series is due to return on 27 May.
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