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New York Drama Critics Circle Award
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New York Drama Critics' Circle logo and insignia
The New York Drama Critics' Circle is made up of twenty-two drama critics from daily newspapers, magazines and wire services based in the New York City metropolitan area. The organization was founded in 1935 at the Algonquin Hotel by a group that included Brooks Atkinson, Walter Winchell, and Robert Benchley.
Member affiliations
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
The New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, awarded every year to the best new play of the season, with additional awards for musicals and foreign or American plays as well as citations for special achievement, is the United States' second oldest theatre award, after the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The first was awarded to Winterset by Maxwell Anderson, who won the following year as well for High Tor.
The award for Best Play carries with it a cash prize of US$2,500, and US$1,000 goes to the playwright who receives the award for best American or foreign play. The awards are made possible by a grant from the Lucille Lortel Foundation.
The critics of the New York Times, are not members of the Drama Critics' Circle. In 1989, the newspaper's executive editor decreed that their critics could no longer participate in any awards. The Times critics served as non-voting 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, the permission was again revoked, and the Times critics were asked to withdraw from the Circle.
Theatre awards and citation winners
Best Play
Best Foreign Play
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Best American Play
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Best Musical
- 1946: Carousel – Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
- 1951: Guys and Dolls – Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling,
- 1956: My Fair Lady – Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
- 1957: The Most Happy Fella – Frank Loesser
- 1958: The Music Man – Meredith Willson
- 1960: Fiorello! – Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, George Abbott and Jerome Weidman
- 1965: Fiddler on the Roof – Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick and Joseph Stein
- 1967: Cabaret – John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff
- 1970: Company – Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
- 1971: Follies – Stephen Sondheim and William Goldman
- 1972: Two Gentlemen of Verona – Galt MacDermot, John Guare and Mel Shapiro
- 1975: A Chorus Line – Marvin Hamlisch, James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante
- 1977: Annie – Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan
- 1983: Little Shop of Horrors – Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
- 1984: Sunday in the Park with George – Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
- 1987: Les Misérables – Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
- 1984: Into the Woods – Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
- 1990: City of Angels – Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman, and David Zippel
- 1993: Kiss of the Spider Woman – John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Terrence McNally
- 1996: Rent – Jonathan Larson
- 1997: Violet – Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley
- 1998: The Lion King – Elton John, Tim Rice, Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi
- 1999: Parade – Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry
- 2000: James Joyce's The Dead – Shaun Davey and Richard Nelson
- 2001: The Producers – Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
- 2003: Hairspray – Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell
- 2006: The Drowsy Chaperone – Bob Martin, Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
- 2007: Spring Awakening – Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater
- 2008: Passing Strange – Stew and Heidi Rodewald
Special awards and citations
References
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