New York Drama Critics' Circle

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

Le prix du "Cercle des Critiques Dramatiques de New York", appelé New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, est décerné par vingt-deux critiques dramatiques issus de journaux quotidiens, de magazines, et d'agences de presse nationales, tous provenant de la métropole new-yorkaise. L'organisation, fondée en 1935 à l'Hotel Algonquin, était composée entre autres de Brooks Atkinson, Walter Winchell et Robert Benchley.

Membres du Cercle

Associated Press Back Stage Bergen Record Bloomberg News Entertainment Weekly

Gannett Newspapers New York Daily News New York Magazine New York Observer New York Post

New York Sun Newsday Star Ledger The New Yorker Time

Time Out New York USA Today Variety Village Voice Wall Street Journal

Histoire du Prix

Le prix récompense chaque année (au mois de mai) la meilleure nouvelle pièce de théâtre de la saison. Quatre autres prix peuvent être accordés: la meilleure musique, la meilleure pièce étrangère, la meilleure pièce étasunienne et/ou la mention spéciale du jury. C'est le plus ancien prix théâtral des États-Unis après le Prix Pulitzer (Pulitzer Prize for drama). Le premier a été décerné à Maxwell Anderson pour sa pièce Winterset, en 1936.

Prix théâtraux et Prix de la mention spéciale

Meilleure pièce

1936: Winterset - Maxwell Anderson 1937: High Tor - Maxwell Anderson 1938: Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 1939: The Time of Your Life – William Saroyan 1945: The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams 1947: All My Sons – Arthur Miller 1948: A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams 1949: Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller 1953: Picnic – William Inge 1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Tennessee Williams 1957: Long Day's Journey into Night – Eugene O'Neill 1959: A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry 1962: The Night of the Iguana – Tennessee Williams 1963: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee 1967: The Homecoming – Harold Pinter 1968: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard 1973: The Changing Room – David Storey 1978: Da – Hugh Leonard 1983: Brighton Beach Memoirs – Neil Simon 1984: The Real Thing – Tom Stoppard 1985: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – August Wilson 1986: A Lie of the Mind – Sam Shepard 1987: Fences – August Wilson

1988: Joe Turner's Come and Gone – August Wilson 1989: The Heidi Chronicles – Wendy Wasserstein 1990: The Piano Lesson – August Wilson 1991: Six Degrees of Separation – John Guare 1992: Dancing at Lughnasa – Brian Friel 1993: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches – Tony Kushner 1994: Three Tall Women – Edward Albee 1995: Arcadia – Tom Stoppard 1996: Seven Guitars – August Wilson 1997: How I Learned To Drive – Paula Vogel 1998: Art – Yasmina Reza 1999: Wit – Margaret Edson 2000: Jitney – August Wilson 2001: Proof – David Auburn 2002: The Goat: or, Who is Sylvia? – Edward Albee 2003: Take Me Out – Richard Greenberg 2004: Intimate Apparel – Lynn Nottage 2005: Doubt – John Patrick Shanley 2006: The History Boys – Alan Bennett 2007: The Coast of Utopia – Tom Stoppard 2008: August: Osage County – Tracy Letts

Meilleure musique

• 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

Meilleure pièce étrangère 1941: The Corn is Green – Emlyn Williams 1942: Blithe Spirit – Noel Coward 1957: No Exit – Jean-Paul Sartre 1950: The Cocktail Party – T. S. Eliot 1955: Witness for the Prosecution – Agatha Christie 1957: The Waltz of the Toreadors – Jean Anouilh 1958: Look Back in Anger – John Osborne 1961: A Taste of Honey – Shelagh Delaney 1980: Betrayal – Harold Pinter 1983: Plenty – David Hare 1989: Aristocrats – Brian Friel 1996: Molly Sweeney – Brian Friel 1997: Skylight – David Hare 1999: Closer – Patrick Marber 1900: Copenhagen – Michael Frayn 2003: Talking Heads – Alan Bennett 2005: The Pillowman – Martin McDonagh

Meilleure pièce étasunienne 1971: The House of Blue Leaves – John Guare 1973: Hot L Baltimore – Lanford Wilson 1977: American Buffalo – David Mamet 1981: Crimes of the Heart – Beth Henley 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

Prix Mention Spéciale

• 1963: Beyond the Fringe – Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore
• 1964: The Trojan Women – Euripides
• 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
• 1996: Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert
• 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

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