New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
The New York Drama Critics' Circle Award is an American theater award that has been presented annually in New York since 1936 . This makes it the second oldest prize in American theater, after the Pulitzer Prize for Drama , which has been awarded since 1917.
The New York Drama Critics' Circle includes theater critics from newspapers, magazines, magazines, radio stations, and internet journals based in the New York area. Employees of the New York Times are not involved, as they initially had to give up membership by order of the publisher and finally since the 2002/2003 season. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times was its first president from 1935 to 1937 . Adam Feldman of Time Out New York has been the current president since 2005 . In 1936, Maxwell Anderson's Winterset was the first drama to receive the award. In the season 1945/1946 with Carousel von Rodgers /Hammerstein awarded the prize for the best musical for the first time.
The prize money for the best piece is $ 2,500 and is funded by the Lucille Lortel Foundation .
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b New York Drama Critics' Circle, history accessed June 26, 2018
- ↑ Broadway World , accessed June 26, 2018.
- ↑ New York Drama Critics' Circle Announces Best Play 2017-2018 in: American Theater, May 4, 2018, accessed June 25, 2018