- New York Drama Critics' Circle
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For other uses, see Critics' Circle (disambiguation).
The New York Drama Critics' Circle is made up of 24 drama critics from daily newspapers, magazines and wire services based in the New York City metropolitan area.[1] The organization was founded in 1935 at the Algonquin Hotel by a group that included Brooks Atkinson, Walter Winchell, and Robert Benchley. Adam Feldman of Time Out New York has been President of the organization since 2005; Elisabeth Vincentelli of the New York Post is currently Vice President, and Joe Dziemianowicz of the New York Daily News serves as Treasurer.
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Member affiliations
- Associated Press
- Back Stage
- Bloomberg News
- Entertainment Weekly
- New York
- New York Daily News
- New York Post
- Newsday
- The New Yorker
- TheaterMania
- Time
- Time Out New York
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
The New York Drama Critics' Circle meets twice a year. At the end of each theater season, it votes on the annual New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, the second oldest theater award in the United States (after the Pulitzer Prize). The main award is for Best Play. If the winner of that award is American, the Circle then votes on whether to give an award for Best Foreign Play as well; if the Best Play winner is of foreign origin, the Circle may give out an award for Best American Play. The awards are later presented in a small ceremony. Since 1945, the Circle has also given out awards for Best Musical. Special Citations may also be awarded for actors, companies or work of special merit. The award for Best Play includes a cash prize of $2,500, and a cash award of $1,000 is given to the playwright who receives the award for Best American or Foreign Play.[2]
Although Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times was the first President of the NYDCC, Times critics are no longer permitted to be members of the Drama Critics' Circle. In 1989, the newspaper's executive editor decreed that their critics could no longer participate in any awards. Times critics served as nonvoting members of the Drama Critics' Circle until 1997, when the newspaper reversed its policy and allowed its critics to resume voting for the awards. In 2003, however, permission was again revoked, and the Times critics were forced to withdraw from the Circle.
Theatre awards and citation winners
Best Play
Best Foreign Play
Best American Play
- 1970: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - Paul Zindel
- 1971: The House of Blue Leaves – John Guare
- 1973: Hot l Baltimore – Lanford Wilson
- 1974: Short Eyes - Miguel Piñero
- 1975: The Taking of Miss Janie - Ed Bullins
- 1976: Streamers - David Rabe
- 1977: American Buffalo – David Mamet
- 1981: Crimes of the Heart – Beth Henley
- 1982: A Soldier's Play - Charles Fuller
- 1984: Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
- 1992: Two Trains Running – August Wilson
- 1995: Love! Valour! Compassion! – Terrence McNally
- 1998: Pride's Crossing – Tina Howe
- 2001: Proof – David Auburn
- 2007: Radio Golf – August Wilson
Best Musical
Special awards and citations
- 1952: Don Juan in Hell - George Bernard Shaw
- 1963: Beyond the Fringe – Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore
- 1964: The Trojan Women – Euripides
- 1966: Mark Twain Tonight - Hal Holbrook
- 1971: Sticks and Bones by David Rabe and Old Times by Harold Pinter
- 1980: Peter Brook's Le Centre International de Créations Théâtricales at La Mama
- 1981: Lena Horne for Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music and New York Shakespeare Festival's [The Pirates of Penzance]
- 1983: Young Playwrights Festival
- 1984: Samuel Beckett for the body of his work
- 1986: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe – Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner
- 1989: Largely New York – Bill Irwin
- 1992: Eileen Atkins – A Room of One's Own
- 1994: Anna Deavere Smith – Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
- 1994: Signature Theatre Company's Horton Foote season
- 1997: Chicago revival — Encores!
- 1998: Cabaret – Roundabout Theatre Company
- 1999: David Hare
- 2002: Elaine Stritch – Elaine Stritch At Liberty
- 2004: Barbara Cook
- 2006: John Doyle, Sarah Travis – Sweeney Todd and Christine Ebersole – Grey Gardens
- 2007: Journey's End - Broadway revival
- 2009: Angela Lansbury; Matthew Warchus and the cast of The Norman Conquests; Gerard Alessandrini for Forbidden Broadway
- 2010: Lincoln Center Festival; Viola Davis; Annie Baker
- 2011: The Normal Heart; Mark Rylance for La Bête and Jerusalem; and the direction, design and puppetry of War Horse
Runners Up
Year Show Author(s) Nominated For 1936 Idiot's Delight Robert E. Sherwood Best American Play 1937 Johnny Johnson Kurt Weill and Paul Green Best Musical 1938 Our Town Thornton Wilder Best American Play 1941 Native Son Paul Green and Richard Wright Best American Play 1943 The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder Best American Play 1947 The Iceman Cometh Eugene O'Neill Best American Play 1949 Kiss Me, Kate Cole Porter, Bella Spewack, and Sam Spewack Best Musical 1951 Billy Budd Louis O. Coxe and Robert Chapman Best American Play 1951 The King and I Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II Best Musical 1952 Mrs. McThing Mary Coyle Chase Best American Play 1953 The Crucible Arthur Miller Best American Play 1954 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk Best American Play 1955 Bus Stop William Inge Best American Play 1962 Gideon Paddy Chayefsky Best American Play 1965 Luv Murray Schisgal Best Play 1965 The Odd Couple Neil Simon Best Play 1966 Philadelphia, Here I Come! Brian Friel Best Play 1966 The Royal Hunt of the Sun Peter Schaffer Best Play 1967 A Delicate Balance Edward Albee Best Play 1969 Hadrian VII Peter Luke Best Play 1970 Indians Arthur Kopit Best American Play 1971 The Trial of the Catonsville Nine Daniel Berrigan Best American Play 1972 Sticks and Bones David Rabe Best Play 1972 Old Times Harold Pinter Best Foreign Play 1973 Seesaw Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, and Michael Bennett Best Musical 1973 Pippin Stephen Schwartz, Bob Fosse, and Roger O. Hirson Best Musical 1974 In the Boom Boom Room David Rabe Best American Play 1975 The Island Athol Fugard Best Play 1975 Seascape Edward Albee Best American Play 1977 No Man's Land Harold Pinter Best Play 1977 I Love My Wife Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart Best Musical 1981 Amadeus Peter Schaffer Best Play 1982 Master Harold...and the Boys Athol Fugard Best Play 1982 Torch Song Trilogy Harvey Fierstein Best American Play 1983 'night, Mother Marsha Norman Best Play 1983 Top Girls Caryl Churchill Best Foreign Play 1983 Quartermaine's Terms Simon Gray Best Foreign Play 1985 Biloxi Blues Neil Simon Best Play 1987 Me and My Girl Noel Gay, Douglas Furber, and L. Arthur Rose Best Musical 1988 M. Butterfly David Henry Hwang Best Play 1988 The Phantom of the Opera Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe Best Musical 1990 The Grapes of Wrath Frank Galati Best Play 1990 Prelude to a Kiss Craig Lucas Best Play 1991 The Secret Garden Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman Best Musical 1992 Marvin's Room Scott McPherson Best American Play 1994 Angels in America: Perestroika Tony Kushner Best Play 1997 The Life Cy Coleman, Ira Gasman, and David Newman Best Musical 1998 The Beauty Queen of Leenane Martin McDonagh Best Play 1998 Three Days of Rain Richard Greenberg Best American Play 1998 Ragtime Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and Terrence McNally Best Musical 2000 Contact John Weidman Best Musical 2001 The Play About the Baby Edward Albee Best American Play 2007 Radio Golf August Wilson Best Play 2007 Frost/Nixon Peter Morgan Best Play 2007 Dying City Christopher Shinn Best American Play 2007 Indian Blood A.R. Gurney Best American Play 2008 Adding Machine Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt Best Musical 2008 The Seafarer Conor McPherson Best Play 2008 Rock 'n' Roll Tom Stoppard Best Play 2009 Next To Normal Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey Best Musical 2009 Road Show Steven Sondheim and John Weidman Best Musical 2009 God of Carnage Yasmina Reza Best Foreign Play 2009 Blasted Sarah Kane Best Foreign Play See also
- Tony Awards
- Drama Desk Awards
- Obie Awards
- Laurence Olivier Awards
References
- ^ a b Jones, Kenneth.Passing Strange and August: Osage County Win 2007-08 NY Drama Critics Circle Award", playbill.com, May 12, 2008
- ^ Gans, Andrew." 'Good People', 'Book of Mormon', 'Jerusalem' Named Winners of New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards" playbill.com, May 9, 2011
Notes
- "Performing Arts Awards: New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards". Infoplease.com. 2008. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0153612.html. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
- Kenneth Jones (11 May 2006). "NY Drama Critics' Circle Awards Go to History Boys, Drowsy Chaperone, Sweeney Todd and Ebersole". Playbill. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/99653.html. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
- Andrew Gans; Ernio Hernandez (7 May 2006). "New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards Go to Utopia, Spring, Golf and Journey's End". Playbill. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107902.html. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
- Andrew Gans (4 May 2009). "Ruined, Billy Elliot and Black Watch Win New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards". Playbill. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/128920.html. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
External links
Categories:- American theater awards
- New York Drama Critics' Circle Award winners
- Awards established in 1935
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