# New York Drama Critics' Circle

El New York Drama Critics' Circle (Cercle de Crítics Teatrals de Nova York) és una agrupació formada per 24 crítics de teatre de premsa, revistes i agències de notícies establerts a la zona metropolitana de Nova York. Va ser creada el 1935 a l'Algonquin Hotel per un grup que incloïa Brooks Atkinson, Walter Winchell, i Robert Benchley.

## Membres afiliats

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## El Premi del New York Drama Critics' Circle

El New York Drama Critics' Circle es reuneix dues vegades l'any. Al final de cada temporada teatral, voten els Premis Anuals del Cercle de Crítics de Teatre de Nova York, el segon premi teatral més veterà dels Estats Units (després del Premi Pulitzer). El premi principal és a la Millor Obra. Si el guanyador és estatunidenc, llavors el Cercle vota sobre si donar un premi a la Millor Obra Estrangera; de la mateixa manera que li el guanyador de la Millor Obra és estranger, llavors el Cercle pot donar un premi a la Millor Obra Americana. Els premis són concedits en una petita cerimònia. Des de 1945 el Cercle també concedeix un premi al Millor Musical. Les Citacions Especials poden ser concedides a actors, companyies o treballs especials d'un mèrit especial. El premi de Millor Obra inclou un premi monetari de $2.500.-, i els guanyadors de Millor Obra Americana o Estrangera reben un premi monetari de $1.000.
Tot i que Brooks Atkinson del New York Times va ser el primer President del Cercle, els crítics del Times ja no poden ser membres. El 1989 l'editor executiu del diari decretà que els seus crítics ja no podrien participar en cap premi. Els crítics del Times serviren com a membres sense vot del Cercle fins al 1997, quan el diari revisà la seva política i permeté als seus crítics que tornessin a votar. El 2003, però, el permís tornà a ser revocat, i els crítics del Times van haver de retirar-se del Cercle.

## Premis de Teatre i guanyadors de citacions
### Millor Obra

| 1936: Winterset - Maxwell Anderson 1937: High Tor - Maxwell Anderson 1938: Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 1939: The Time of Your Life – William Saroyan 1941: Watch on the Rhine - Lillian Helman 1943: The Patriots - Sidney Kingsley 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 1950: The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers 1951: Darkness at Noon - Sidney Kingsley 1952: I Am a Camera - John Van Druten 1953: Picnic – William Inge 1954: The Teahouse of the August Moon - John Patrick 1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Tennessee Williams 1956: The Diary of Anne Frank - Frances Goodrich i Albert Hackett 1957: Long Day's Journey into Night – Eugene O'Neill 1958: Look Homeward, Angel - Ketti Frings 1959: A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry 1960: Toys in the Attic - Lillian Hellman 1961: All the Way Home - Tad Mosel 1962: The Night of the Iguana – Tennessee Williams 1963: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee 1964: Luther - John Osborne 1965: The Subject Was Roses - Frank D. Gilroy 1966: Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss 1967: The Homecoming – Harold Pinter 1968: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard 1969: The Great White Hope - Howard Sackler 1970: Borstal Boy - Frank McMahon 1971: Home - David Storey 1972: That Championship Season - Jason Miller 1973: The Changing Room – David Storey 1974: The Contractors - David Storey 1975: Equus - Peter Shaffer | 1976: Travesties - Tom Stoppard 1977: Otherwise Engaged - Simon Gray 1978: Da – Hugh Leonard 1979: The Elephant Man - Bernard Pomerance 1980: Talley's Folly - Lanford Wilson 1981: A Lesson From Aloes - Athol Fugard 1982: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (obra) - David Edgar 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: The Invention of Love – Tom Stoppard 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 2009: Ruined – Lynn Nottage 2010: The Orphans' Home Cycle – Horton Foote 2011: Good People - David Lindsay-Abaire |

### Millor Obra Estrangera

| 1938: Shadow and Substance - Paul Vincent Carroll 1939: The White Steed - Paul Vincent Carroll 1941: The Corn is Green – Emlyn Williams 1942: Blithe Spirit – Noël Coward 1944: Jacobowsky and the Colonel (Jacobowsky und der Oberst) - Franz Werfel 1947: No Exit – Jean-Paul Sartre 1948: The Winslow Boy - Terence Rattigan 1949: The Madwoman of Chaillot - Jean Giraudoux 1950: The Cocktail Party – T. S. Eliot 1951: The Lady's Not for Burning - Christopher Fry 1952: Venus Observed - Christopher Fry 1953: The Love of Four Colonels - Peter Ustinov 1954: Ondine - Jean Giraudoux 1955: Witness for the Prosecution – Agatha Christie 1956: Tiger at the Gates - Jean Giraudoux i Christopher Fry 1957: The Waltz of the Toreadors – Jean Anouilh 1958: Look Back in Anger – John Osborne 1959: The Visit - Friedrich Duerrenmatt i Maurice Valency 1960: Five Finger Exercise - Peter Shaffer 1961: A Taste of Honey – Shelagh Delaney | 1962: A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt 1972: The Screens - Jean Genet 1980: Betrayal – Harold Pinter 1983: Plenty – David Hare 1986: Benefactors - Michael Frayn 1987: Les liaisons dangereuses - Christopher Hampton 1988: The Road to Mecca - Athol Fugard 1989: Aristocrats – Brian Friel 1990: Privates on Parade - Peter Nichols 1991: Our Country's Good - Timberlake Wertenbaker 1993: Someone Who'll Watch Over Me - Frank McGuinness 1996: Molly Sweeney – Brian Friel 1997: Skylight – David Hare 1999: Closer – Patrick Marber 2000: Copenhagen – Michael Frayn 2003: Talking Heads – Alan Bennett 2005: The Pillowman – Martin McDonagh 2009: Black Watch – Gregory Burke 2011: Jerusalem - Jez Butterworth |

### Millor Obra Americana

* 1970: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - Paul Zindel
* 1971: The House of Blue Leaves – John Guare
* 1973: Hotel 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

### Millor Musical

| 1946: Carousel – Richard Rodgers i Oscar Hammerstein II 1947: Brigadoon - Frederick Loewe i Alan Jay Lerner 1949: South Pacific - Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, i Joshua Logan 1950: The Consul - Gian Carlo Menotti 1951: Guys and Dolls – Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows i Jo Swerling, 1952: Pal Joey - Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart,and John O'Hara 1953: Wonderful Town - Joseph Fields, Jerome Chodorov, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, i Leonard Bernstein 1954: The Golden Apple (musical) - John La Touche i Jerome Moross 1955: The Saint of Bleecker Street - Gian Carlo Menotti 1956: My Fair Lady – Frederick Loewe i Alan Jay Lerner 1957: The Most Happy Fella – Frank Loesser 1958: The Music Man – Meredith Willson 1959: La Plume de Ma Tante - Robert Dhery, Ross Parker, Francis Blanche, i Gerard Calvi 1960: Fiorello! – Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, George Abbott i Jerome Weidman 1961: Carnival! - Michael Stewart i Bob Merrill 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert, i Frank Loesser 1964: Hello, Dolly! - Michael Stewart i Jerry Herman 1965: Fiddler on the Roof – Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick i Joseph Stein 1966: Man of La Mancha - Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh, i Joe Darion 1967: Cabaret – John Kander, Fred Ebb, i Joe Masteroff 1968: Your Own Thing - Donald Driver, Hal Hester, i Danny Apolinar 1969: 1776 – Sherman Edwards i Peter Stone 1970: Company – Stephen Sondheim i George Furth 1971: Follies – Stephen Sondheim i William Goldman 1972: Two Gentlemen of Verona – Galt MacDermot, John Guare i Mel Shapiro 1973: A Little Night Music – Stephen Sondheim i Hugh Wheeler | 1974: Candide – Leonard Bernstein, Richard Wilbur, Hugh Wheeler i John La Touche 1975: A Chorus Line – Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood i Nicholas Dante 1976: Pacific Overtures – Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman i Hugh Wheeler 1977: Annie – Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin i Thomas Meehan 1978: Ain't Misbehavin' – Fats Waller i Richard Maltby, Jr. 1979: Sweeney Todd – Stephen Sondheim i Hugh Wheeler 1980: Evita – Andrew Lloyd Webber i Tim Rice 1983: Little Shop of Horrors – Alan Menken i Howard Ashman 1984: Sunday in the Park with George – Stephen Sondheim i James Lapine 1987: Les Misérables – Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil i Herbert Kretzmer 1988: Into the Woods – Stephen Sondheim i James Lapine 1990: City of Angels – Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman, i David Zippel 1991: The Will Rogers Follies – Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, Adolph Green i Peter Stone 1993: Kiss of the Spider Woman – John Kander, Fred Ebb, i Terrence McNally 1996: Rent – Jonathan Larson 1997: Violet – Jeanine Tesori i Brian Crawley 1998: The Lion King – Elton John, Tim Rice, Roger Allers i Irene Mecchi 1999: Parade – Jason Robert Brown i Alfred Uhry 2000: James Joyce's The Dead – Shaun Davey i Richard Nelson 2001: The Producers – Mel Brooks i Thomas Meehan 2003: Hairspray – Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Thomas Meehan i Mark O'Donnell 2006: The Drowsy Chaperone – Bob Martin, Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert i Greg Morrison 2007: Spring Awakening – Duncan Sheik i Steven Sater 2008: Passing Strange – Stew i Heidi Rodewald 2009: Billy Elliot the Musical – Elton John i Lee Hall 2011: The Book of Mormon – Trey Parker, Matt Stone i Robert Lopez |

### Premis especials i citacions

* 1952: Don Juan in Hell - George Bernard Shaw
* 1963: Beyond the Fringe – Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller i Dudley Moore
* 1964: The Trojan Women – Euripides
* 1966: Mark Twain Tonight - Hal Holbrook
* 1971: Sticks and Bones de David Rabe i Old Times de Harold Pinter
* 1980: Peter Brook's Le Centre International de Créations Théâtricales a La Mama
* 1981: Lena Horne per Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music i The Pirates of Penzance de New York Shakespeare Festival
* 1983: Young Playwrights Festival
* 1984: Samuel Beckett, pel conjunt del seu treball
* 1986: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe – Lily Tomlin i 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 i Christine Ebersole – Grey Gardens
* 2007: Journey's End – revival de Broadway
* 2009: Angela Lansbury; Matthew Warchus i el repartiment de The Norman Conquests; Gerard Alessandrini per Forbidden Broadway
* 2010: Lincoln Center Festival; Viola Davis; Annie Baker
* 2011: The Normal Heart; Mark Rylance per La Bête i Jerusalem; i la direcció, disseny i titelles de War Horse

## Finalistes

| Any | Espectacle | Autor(s) | Nominat per |
| 1936 | Idiot's Delight | Robert E. Sherwood | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1937 | Johnny Johnson | Kurt Weill i Paul Green | Millor Musical |
| 1938 | Our Town | Thornton Wilder | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1941 | Native Son | Paul Green and Richard Wright | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1943 | The Skin of Our Teeth | Thornton Wilder | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1947 | The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O'Neill | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1949 | Kiss Me, Kate | Cole Porter, Bella Spewack, i Sam Spewack | Millor Musical |
| 1951 | Billy Budd | Louis O. Coxe and Robert Chapman | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1951 | The King and I | Richard Rodgers i Oscar Hammerstein II | Millor Musical |
| 1952 | Mrs. McThing | Mary Coyle Chase | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1953 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1954 | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | Herman Wouk | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1955 | Bus Stop | William Inge | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1962 | Gideon | Paddy Chayefsky | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1965 | Luv | Murray Schisgal | Millor Obra |
| 1965 | The Odd Couple | Neil Simon | Millor Obra |
| 1966 | Philadelphia, Here I Come! | Brian Friel | Millor Obra |
| 1966 | The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Peter Schaffer | Millor Obra |
| 1967 | A Delicate Balance | Edward Albee | Millor Obra |
| 1969 | Hadrian VII | Peter Luke | Millor Obra |
| 1970 | Indians | Arthur Kopit | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1971 | The Trial of the Catonsville Nine | Daniel Berrigan | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1972 | Sticks and Bones | David Rabe | Millor Obra |
| 1972 | Old Times | Harold Pinter | Millor Obra Estrangera |
| 1973 | Seesaw | Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, i Michael Bennett | Millor Musical |
| 1973 | Pippin | Stephen Schwartz, Bob Fosse, and Roger O. Hirson | Millor Musical |
| 1974 | In the Boom Boom Room | David Rabe | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1975 | The Island | Athol Fugard | Millor Obra |
| 1975 | Seascape | Edward Albee | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1977 | No Man's Land | Harold Pinter | Millor Obra |
| 1977 | I Love My Wife | Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart | Millor Musical |
| 1981 | Amadeus | Peter Schaffer | Millor Obra |
| 1982 | Master Harold...and the Boys | Athol Fugard | Millor Obra |
| 1982 | Torch Song Trilogy | Harvey Fierstein | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1983 | 'night, Mother | Marsha Norman | Millor Obra |
| 1983 | Top Girls | Caryl Churchill | Millor Obra Estrangera |
| 1983 | Quartermaine's Terms | Simon Gray | Millor Obra Estrangera |
| 1985 | Biloxi Blues | Neil Simon | Millor Obra |
| 1987 | Me and My Girl | Noel Gay, Douglas Furber, i L. Arthur Rose | Millor Musical |
| 1988 | M. Butterfly | David Henry Hwang | Millor Obra |
| 1988 | The Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, i Richard Stilgoe | Millor Musical |
| 1990 | The Grapes of Wrath | Frank Galati | Millor Obra |
| 1990 | Prelude to a Kiss | Craig Lucas | Millor Obra |
| 1991 | The Secret Garden | Lucy Simon i Marsha Norman | Millor Musical |
| 1992 | Marvin's Room | Scott McPherson | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1994 | Angels in America: Perestroika | Tony Kushner | Millor Obra |
| 1997 | The Life | Cy Coleman, Ira Gasman, and David Newman | Millor Musical |
| 1998 | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | Martin McDonagh | Millor Obra |
| 1998 | Three Days of Rain | Richard Greenberg | Millor Obra Americana |
| 1998 | Ragtime | Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, i Terrence McNally | Millor Musical |
| 2000 | Contact | John Weidman | Millor Musical |
| 2001 | The Play About the Baby | Edward Albee | Millor Obra Americana |
| 2007 | Radio Golf | August Wilson | Millor Obra |
| 2007 | Frost/Nixon | Peter Morgan | Millor Obra |
| 2007 | Dying City | Christopher Shinn | Millor Obra Americana |
| 2007 | Indian Blood | A.R. Gurney | Millor Obra Americana |
| 2008 | Adding Machine | Jason Loewith i Joshua Schmidt | Millor Musical |
| 2008 | The Seafarer | Conor McPherson | Millor Obra |
| 2008 | Rock 'n' Roll | Tom Stoppard | Millor Obra |
| 2009 | Next To Normal | Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey | Millor Musical |
| 2009 | Road Show | Stephen Sondheim i John Weidman | Millor Musical |
| 2009 | God of Carnage | Yasmina Reza | Millor Obra Estrangera |
| 2009 | Blasted | Sarah Kane | Millor Obra Estrangera |

## Referències

* 1 2 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

## Vegeu també

* Premi Tony
* Premi Laurence Olivier

## Enllaços externs

* «Performing Arts Awards: New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards». Infoplease.com, 2008 [Consulta: 19 juny 2008].
* Kenneth Jones «NY Drama Critics' Circle Awards Go to History Boys, Drowsy Chaperone, Sweeney Todd and Ebersole». Playbill, 11-05-2006 [Consulta: 19 juny 2008].
* Andrew Gans; Ernio Hernandez «New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards Go to Utopia, Spring, Golf and Journey's End». Playbill, 07-05-2006 [Consulta: 19 juny 2008].
* Andrew Gans «Ruined, Billy Elliot and Black Watch Win New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards». Playbill, 04-05-2009 [Consulta: 4 maig 2009].
* Pàgina oficial del New York Drama Critics' Circle