Critics' Circle Theater Award
The Critics' Circle Theater Award , which was a Drama Theater Award until 1990 , is a British theater award that has been presented annually since 1982 . It is awarded by The Critics' Circle for achievements in the field of theater and musicals in the United Kingdom last year and is considered one of the highest accolades for theater professionals alongside the Laurence Olivier Award .
Categories
Current categories
The categories of 2014:
| category | Award |
|---|---|
| Best new play (also musicals) | since 1982 |
| Best actor | since 1982 |
| Best Actress | since 1982 |
| John and Wendy Trewin Award (for best Shakespeare performance) | since 2000 |
| Best theater direction | since 1982 |
| Peter Hepple Award (for the best musical) | since 1982 |
| Most Promising Author | since 1989 |
| Best costume designer | since 1982 |
| Jack Tinker Award (for the most promising newcomer, no authors) | since 1996 |
Former categories
| category | Award |
|---|---|
| Most promising newcomer (excluding authors) | 1989 to 1995 |
Records
Simon Russell Beale has won a Critics' Circle Theater Award four times for Best Actor , Judi Dench three times and one more time for Best Actor in a Shakespeare Play . Three times were Eve Best and Victoria Hamilton as best actresses with the Critics' Circle Theater Award honored.
Two Best Actors were named Brian Cox , Michael Gambon , Ian Holm , Rory Kinnear , Eddie Redmayne , Mark Rylance , Rufus Sewell , Kevin Spacey and David Suchet . Clare Higgins , Rachel Weisz and Fiona Shaw received two awards for Best Actresses . Antony Sher and Derek Jacobi have received two awards for Best Actor in a Shakespeare Play; This honor was once awarded to two women: Tamsin Greig was awarded this prize for portraying Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Judi Dench for a role in The Winter's Tale .
Michael Grandage has already been named Best Theater Director four times and Sam Mendes three times. Already five pieces in which Stephen Sondheim has been involved as a director or author were, with the Critics' Circle Theater Award awarded (Follies (1987), South Pacific (1988), Into the Woods (1990), Assassins (1992) and Gypsy ( 2014)) . Martin McDonagh has been recognized once as Most Promising Writer and once as Writer of Hangmen for Best New Play . The piece Guys and Dolls received two Peter Hepple Awards for the best musical.
- Notable winners of the Critics' Circle Theater Awards
Actress Judi Dench (2007)
Actress Eve Best (2009)
Actor David Suchet
Author of Hangmen : Martin McDonagh (2012)
Mark Strong, Best Actor 2014
Helen McCrory, Best Actress 2014
See also
Web links
- Critics' Circle Theater Awards at the Albemarle of London.
- Critics 'Circle Theater Awards at The Critics' Circle.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Critics' Circle Theater Awards at Albemarle of London. ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
