The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. They were begun during the 1949–1950 theatre season. The awards are decided upon by theatre critics who review for out-of-town newspapers, national publications, and other media outlets outside New York City. Simon Saltzman, a long-time member of the OCC executive committee and theater reviewer, currenty serves as president.
History
The first awards (for 1949–50) were: The Cocktail Party (Play); The Consul (Musical); Sheila Guyse, Performances in Supporting Roles for Lost in the Stars, and Daniel Reed, Performances in Supporting Roles for Come Back, Little Sheba.
The nominees are announced each April. The presentation of awards is made in May at Sardi's Restaurant in Manhattan, New York City, and precede the Tony Awards ceremony.
The nominees for 2010–11 were announced on April 26, 2011 by Tyne Daly and Brian d'Arcy James. Winners were announced on May 16, with the ceremony held on May 26.[1] The nominees for 2011–12 were announced on April 23, 2012 by Lily Rabe and Richard Thomas; the awards were announced on May 14.[2]
The nominees for 2012–13 were announced on April 22, 2013 by Robert Cuccioli and Laila Robins; the awards were announced on May 13.[3] The nominees for 2013–2014 were announced on April 22, 2014 by Cicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams.[4] Winners were announced on May 12, 2014.[5] The nominees for 2014–15 were announced on April 20, 2015 by Raúl Esparza and Katie Finneran. The winners were announced on May 11.[6][7] The nominations for 2017-2018 were announced on April 24, 2018 by Jenn Colella and Katrina Lenk.[8]
Categories
Awards are currently given in the following categories:
- Outstanding Broadway Play
- Outstanding Broadway Musical
- Outstanding Off-Broadway Play
- Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical
- Outstanding New Score
- Outstanding Revival of a Play
- Outstanding Revival of a Musical
- Outstanding Actor in a Play
- Outstanding Actress in a Play
- Outstanding Actor in a Musical
- Outstanding Actress in a Musical
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
- Outstanding Solo Performance
- Outstanding Direction of a Play
- Outstanding Direction of a Musical
- Outstanding Choreography
- Outstanding Set Design
- Outstanding Costume Design
- Outstanding Lighting Design
- Outstanding Projection Design
- John Gassner Award (presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Winners and nominees
2017–2018 season
The nominees included SpongeBob SquarePants – 11; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – 10; My Fair Lady – 9; Mean Girls – 8; Angels in America, Carousel, and Once on This Island – 6; Three Tall Women – 5; Frozen, and Prince of Broadway – 4; Farinelli and the King, and Travesties – 3.[9]
2016–2017 season
The nominees included Anastasia – 13; Hello, Dolly! — 10; The Band's Visit and Come from Away — 7; Groundhog Day — 5; A Bronx Tale — 4; Falsettos, Holiday Inn, and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 — 3; and Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard — 1.[10]
Multiple winners: Come from Away and Hello, Dolly! – 4; The Band's Visit and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – 2. The Outstanding New Broadway Musical was Come from Away, and the Outstanding New Broadway Play was Oslo; Outstanding Revival of a Play was Jitney and Outstanding Revival of a Musical was Hello, Dolly!. The John Gassner Award winner was Bess Wohl for Small Mouth Sounds.[11]
2015–2016 season
The nominees included American Psycho and She Loves Me – 8; Bright Star and On Your Feet! – 7; Dear Evan Hansen – 6; Eclipsed, Lazarus, Long Day's Journey Into Night and Spring Awakening – 5; and The Humans, A View From the Bridge and Waitress – 4.[12]
Multiple winners: She Loves Me – 4; Long Day’s Journey Into Night – 3. The Outstanding New Broadway Musical was Bright Star, and the Outstanding New Broadway Play was The Humans; Outstanding Revival of a Play was Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Outstanding Revival of a Musical was She Loves Me. The John Gassner Award winner was Marco Ramirez for The Royale.[13]
2014–2015 season
The nominees included Something Rotten! – 12, On the Twentieth Century – 9, An American in Paris – 8, Wolf Hall – 7, It Shoulda Been You – 6, The Audience – 6, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – 6, Hamilton – 5, The Elephant Man – 5, The King and I – 5, The Visit – 5, On The Town – 4, You Can't Take It with You – 4, The Heidi Chronicles – 3 and The Last Ship – 3.[6]
Multiple winners: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (5, including Outstanding New Broadway Play), An American in Paris (3, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical), Hamilton (3, including Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical), The King and I (3), The Audience (2), On the 20th Century (2) and You Can't Take It With You (2).[7]
The John Gassner Award winner was The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar.
2013–2014 season
The nominees included 11 nominations for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, 8 nominations for the new musical Aladdin, and 7 nominations for the new musical Fun Home; the dramas Twelfth Night received 5 nominations, Act One 4 nominations, and All the Way 4 nominations.[4] Winners of multiple awards were A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (including New Musical) with 4; Bullets Over Broadway and The Glass Menagerie with 3 each; and All the Way (including New Play) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch with 2 each. Three plays tied for the John Glassner Award: Eric Dufault, Year of the Rooster; Madeleine George, The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence; and Steven Levenson, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin.[5]
2012–2013 season
The nominees included 11 nominations for the revival of the musical Pippin, nine nominations for Kinky Boots, eight nominations (each) for Chaplin: The Musical and Cinderella and six nominations (each) for Golden Boy and The Nance.[3]
Winners include Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike as Outstanding New Broadway Play, Kinky Boots as Outstanding New Broadway Musical, My Name is Asher Lev as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and Here Lies Love as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf was named Outstanding Revival of a Play and Pippin as Outstanding Revival of a Musical. My Name is Asher Lev by Aaron Posner received the John Gassner Award. The Special Achievement Award was presented to the Irish Repertory Theatre.[3]
2011–2012 season
The nominees included nine nominations for the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, the most of any production, with the musicals Newsies and Once each receiving seven nominations and the revival of Follies receiving five. The Public Theater received an honorary award "on its 50th anniversary presenting free theatre at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park."[2]
Winners include One Man, Two Guvnors as Outstanding New Broadway Play, Once as Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, and Michael John LaChiusa's Queen of the Mist as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. The Submission by Jeff Talbot received the John Gassner Award.[14]
2010–2011 season
The nominees, announced on April 26, 2011, included nine nominations for the musical Sister Act, the most of any show. Anything Goes received eight nominations. The Special Achievement Awards were also announced: Ellen Barkin, Outstanding Broadway Debut in The Normal Heart; and Adrian Kohler with Basil Jones for Handspring Puppet Company Puppet Design, Fabrication and Direction for War Horse.[1]
- Winners
Source: BroadwayWorld.com[15]
- Outstanding New Broadway Musical – The Book of Mormon (which also won Outstanding New Score)
- Outstanding New Broadway Play – War Horse
- Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play – Other Desert Cities (by Jon Robin Baitz)
- Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical – The Kid (book by Michael Zam, music by Andy Monroe, lyrics by Jack Lechner)
- Outstanding Revival of a Musical – Anything Goes
- Outstanding Revival of a Play – The Normal Heart
- Outstanding Director of a Musical – Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker for Book of Mormon
- Outstanding Director of a Play – Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris for War Horse
- Outstanding Choreographer – Kathleen Marshall for Anything Goes
- Outstanding Costume Design – Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner for Priscilla
- Outstanding Lighting Design – Paule Constable for War Horse
- Outstanding Set Design – Neil Murray for Brief Encounter
- Outstanding Actress in a Musical – Sutton Foster
- Outstanding Actor in a Musical – Josh Gad
- Outstanding Actor in a Play – Mark Rylance
- Outstanding Actress in a Play – Nina Arianda and Frances McDormand (TIE)
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play – Brian Bedford
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play – Elizabeth Rodriguez
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical – Laura Benanti
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical – Adam Godley
2009–2010 season
Nominees for the 2009–2010 season were announced on April 26, 2010 by siblings Sutton Foster and Hunter Foster, with winners announced on May 17. Seven nominations each were received by the musical Memphis and the revival of The Royal Family, the most of any production. The Scottsboro Boys was nominated for six awards, including Best Off-Broadway musical. Shows receiving five nominations were The Addams Family, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Orphans' Home Cycle, and Promises, Promises. Finian's Rainbow, La Cage aux Folles, Lend Me A Tenor, and Sondheim on Sondheim each received four nominations.[16]
The Outstanding New Broadway Musical award was won by Memphis, which won a total of four awards. Other winners included: Outstanding New Broadway Play for Red and Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play for The Orphans' Home Cycle, which won two awards. The Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical was a tie, won by Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and The Scottsboro Boys. La Cage aux Folles won four awards: Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Actor In A Musical (Douglas Hodge), Director (Terry Johnson), and Costume Design (Matthew Wright). Montego Glover (Memphis) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (A Little Night Music) tied for Outstanding Actress In A Musical.[17]
2008–2009 season
Billy Elliot the Musical and Shrek the Musical each received ten nominations, the most of any show. The winners were announced on May 11, 2009, with an awards dinner on May 21 at Sardi's Restaurant.[18]
Billy Elliot the Musical won seven awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, followed by Shrek the Musical with four. The award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical was a tie between Sutton Foster and Josefina Scaglione. Brian d'Arcy James won for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Outstanding New Broadway Play was won by God of Carnage.
The John Gassner Award (presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright) was won by Gina Gionfriddo for Becky Shaw, and the Special Achievement Award was given to the three actors who share the role of Billy Elliot, David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish in Billy Elliot the Musical.[19]
All winners and nominees
The complete list of winners and nominees is at the Outer Critics Official Site.[20]
See also
References
- ^ a b Gans, Andrew."Outer Critics Circle Nominees Include 'Sister Act', 'Anything Goes', 'Book of Mormon' " playbill.com, April 26, 2011
- ^ a b Gans, Andrew."62nd Annual Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations Announced; 'Nice Work' Receives Nine Nods" playbill.com, April 23, 2012
- ^ a b c Gans, Andrew." 'Pippin' Is Big Winner of 2012–13 Outer Critics Circle Awards" playbill.com, May 13, 2013
- ^ a b Gans, Andrew."64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominations Announced; A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Leads the Pack" playbill.com, April 22, 2014
- ^ a b Gans, Andrew."64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Award Winners Announced; 'Gentleman's Guide' Wins Four Awards" playbill.com, May 12, 2014
- ^ a b Gans, Andrew and Viagas, Robert."Outer Critics Circle Nominees Announced; 'Something Rotten!' Leads the Pack" playbill.com, April 20, 2015
- ^ a b Clement, Olivia." 'Curious Incident' Top Winner at Outer Critics Circle Awards" playbill.com, May 11, 2015
- ^ "VIDEO: Jenn Colella and Katrina Lenk Announce The Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominations" broadwayworld.com, April 24, 2018
- ^ Clement, Olivia. " 'SpongeBob SquarePants' Leads Outer Critics Circle Nominations" Playbill, April 24, 2018
- ^ Desk, BWW News. "Outer Critics Circle Nominations Announced: Hello, Dolly!, Anastasia, Groundhog Day and More!". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "HELLO, DOLLY! and COME FROM AWAY win OCC Awards". outercritics.org. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ^ " American Psycho and She Loves Me Lead 2016 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations" TheaterMania, April 19, 2016
- ^ Cox, Gordon."Outer Critics Circle Awards 2016: Roundabout Dominates with She Loves Me, Long Day’s Journey (Full List)" Variety, May 8, 2016
- ^ Gans, Andrew "Outer Critics Circle Winners Announced; 'Once' and 'One Man, Two Guvnors' Are Top Winners" playbill.com, May 14, 2012
- ^ "'War Horse', 'The Kid', Benanti, Gad Among Outer Critics Circle Winners!" broadwayworld.com, May 16, 2011
- ^ Gans, Andrew."Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominations Announced" playbill.com, April 26, 2010
- ^ Gans, Andrew."Memphis, La Cage, Zeta-Jones, Finneran and More Are Outer Critics Circle Award Winners" playbill.com, May 17, 2010
- ^ Gans, Andrew.Billy Elliot and Shrek Top Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominations", playbill.com, April 20, 2009
- ^ Gans, Andrew."Billy Elliot, Carnage, Ruined and Avenger Are Outer Critics Circle Award Winners", playbill.com, May 11, 2009
- ^ Awards and nominations listing outercritics.org, accessed March 21, 2011