West End hit The Book of Mormon has won four prizes at the 2014 Olivier Awards, including best new musical.
The controversial brainchild of South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone also won two acting awards and an additional prize for its choreography.
Political drama Chimerica was the main winner of the night, receiving three awards outright and sharing two others.
Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of Abba were among the performers at the central London event.
The Swedish music stars appeared with the current London cast of Mamma Mia! at the end of the ceremony to celebrate the musical's 15 years in the West End.
Other performers at London's Royal Opera House included Broadway star Bernadette Peters and Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja.
Named after the actor, knight and theatrical giant Lord Olivier, the awards are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre (Solt).
The Book of Mormon, about two Mormon missionaries sent to a remote village in Uganda, saw Gavin Creel and Stephen Ashfield win best actor in a musical and best supporting performance in a musical respectively.
The other prize for musical performing went to Croatia's Zrinka Cvitesic, named best actress in a musical for Once.
Kinnear previously won an Olivier in 2008 while Manville was nominated in 2012
Other award recipients on Sunday included Rory Kinnear, crowned best actor for his role as Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.
The actor, playwright and son of comedy star Roy was up against two other Shakespearean performances in his category - Jude Law's Henry V and Tom Hiddleston's Coriolanus.
The 36-year-old previously won an Olivier in 2008 and shared last year's best actor prize at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards with Othello co-star Adrian Lester.
The best actress prize went to Lesley Manville for her work in the Almeida Theatre production of the Henrik Ibsen play Ghosts.
Sir Richard Eyre's staging of the bleak Norwegian drama won the best revival award, while Manville's co-star Jack Lowden was named best actor in a supporting role.
Sharon D Clarke received the female equivalent for The Amen Corner at the National, whose outgoing artistic director, Sir Nicholas Hytner, shared a special outstanding achievement award with its executive director Nick Starr.
Maria Friedman's production of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along was named best musical revival, while long-running success Les Miserables won the BBC Radio 2 audience award.
Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus reflect on the success of Mamma Mia!
Perfect Nonsense, a play featuring PG Wodehouse's popular Jeeves and Wooster characters, won the prize for best new comedy, presented for the first time since 2010.
It was Chimerica, though, that had most to celebrate after winning best new play, best director for Lyndsey Turner and best set design for Es Devlin.
Lucy Kirkwood's play, about the so-called "tank man" who defied the Chinese army in Tiananmen Square in 1989, also shared the awards for lighting design and sound, with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Merrily Me Roll Along respectively.
Highlights from this year's ceremony, co-hosted by Gemma Arterton and Stephen Mangan, will be shown on ITV at 22:15 BST.
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