London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards
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The London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards ("Drama Theatre Awards" until 1990) are presented annually for achievements in London Theatre. The winners are selected by vote by newspaper and magazine theatre critics. See Critics' Circle drama section website [1]
Recent winners in the principal categories have been as follows.
[edit] Best New Play
2006 – Rock'n'Roll by Tom Stoppard
2005 – Harvest by Richard Bean
2004 – The History Boys by Alan Bennett
2003 – Democracy by Michael Frayn
2002 – The York Realist by Peter Gill
2001 – Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones
2000 – Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall
1999 – Mnemonic by Simon McBurney
1998 – Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
1997 – Closer by Patrick Marber
1996 – Blinded by the Sun by Stephen Poliakoff
[edit] Best Actor
2006 – Rufus Sewell for Rock'n'Roll
2005 – Simon Russell Beale for The Philanthropist
2004 – Richard Griffiths for The History Boys
2003 – Michael Sheen for Caligula
2002 – Simon Russell Beale for Uncle Vanya
2001 – Ian McDiarmid for Faith Healer
2000 – Michael Gambon for The Caretaker
[edit] Best Actress
2006 – Kathleen Turner for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2005 – Eve Best for Hedda Gabler
2004 – Victoria Hamilton for Suddenly Last Summer
2003 – Eve Best for Mourning Becomes Electra
2002 – Claire Higgins for Vincent in Brixton
2001 – Lindsay Duncan for Mouth to Mouth and Private Lives
2000 – Nicholas Hytner for As You Like It
[edit] The John and Wendy Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance
2006 – Tamsin Greig for Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing
2005 – Kevin Spacey for Richard II
2004 – Paul Rhys for Measure for Measure
2003 – Greg Hicks for Coriolanus
2002 – Mark Rylance for Twelfth Night
2001 – Samuel West for Hamlet
2000 – Simon Russell Beale for Hamlet
[edit] Best Director
2006 – John Tiffany for Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe)
2005 – Michael Grandage for The Wild Duck
2004 – Rufus Norris for Festen
2003 – Howard Davies for Mourning Becomes Electra
2002 – Sam Mendes for Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya
2001 – Robert Lepage for The Far Side of the Moon
2000 – Michael Grandage for As You Like It, Passion Play and Merrily We Roll Along
1999 – Trevor Nunn for The Merchant of Venice and Summerfolk
1998 – Howard Davies for The Iceman Cometh and Flight
1997 – Richard Eyre for King Lear and The Invention of Love
1996 – Richard Eyre for John Gabriel Borkman and his revived Guys and Dolls
1995 – Sam Mendes for The Glass Menagerie
1994 – Sean Mathias for Design for Living and Les Parents Terribles
1993 – Terry Hands for Tamburlaine the Great
1992 – Stephen Daldry for An Inspector Calls
1991 – Trevor Nunn for Timon of Athens
1990 – Sir Peter Hall for The Wild Duck; Robert Lepage for Tectonic Plates
1989 – Nicholas Hytner for Ghetto and Miss Saigon
[edit] Best Musical - from 2006 The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical
2006 – Caroline, Or Change
2005 – Billy Elliot The Musical
2004 – The Producers
2003 – Jerry Springer – The Opera
2002 – Anything Goes (a revival)
2001 – Kiss Me, Kate (a revival)
2000 – The Beautiful Game
[edit] Most Promising Playwright
2006 – Nina Raine for Rabbit
2005 – Laura Wade for Breathing Corpses and Colder Than Here
2004 – Rebecca Lenkiewicz for The Night Season
2003 – Lucy Prebble for The Sugar Syndrome
2002 – Charlotte Eilenberg for The Lucky Ones
2001 – Gregory Burke for Gagarin Way
2000 – Joanna Laurens for The Three Birds
1999 – Charlotte Jones for Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis
1998 – Rebecca Prichard for Yard Gal
1997 – Conor McPherson for The Weir
1996 – Martin McDonagh for The Beauty Queen of Leenane
[edit] Best Designer
2006 – Punchdrunk Faust Company for Faust
2005 – Timothy Bird and David Farley for Sunday in the Park with George
2004 – Christopher Oram for Suddenly Last Summer
2003 – Bob Crowley for Mourning Becomes Electra
2002 – William Dudley for The Coast of Utopia trilogy
2001 – Paul Brown for Platonov
2000 – Paul Brown for Coriolanus, Richard II and The Tempest
1999 – Julie Taymor and Richard Hudson for The Lion King
1998 – Richard Hoover for Not About Nightingales
1998 – Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch and Graeme Gilmour for Shockheaded Peter
1997 – John Napier for Peter Pan
1996 – Robert Innes Hopkins for The Comedy of Errors and The Weavers
1995 – Robin Don for The Winter Guest
1994 – Mark Thompson for The Kitchen
1993 – Ian MacNeil for Machinal
1992 – Ian MacNeil for An Inspector Calls
1991 – Bob Crowley for Murmuring Judges
1990 – Mark Thompson for The Wind in the Willows
1989 – John Napier for Miss Saigon
[edit] The Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer (other than a playwright)
2006 – Connie Fisher for The Sound of Music
2006 – joint award for Andrew Garfield for Citizenship and The Overwhelming
2005 – Mariah Gale for 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
2004 – Eddie Redmayne for The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?
2003 – Lisa Dillon for Iphigenia and The Master Builder
2002 – Alison Pargeter for Damsels in Distress
2001 – Lyndsey Marshal for Redundant and Boston Marriage
2000 – Chiwetel Ejiofor for Blue/Orange
1999 – Eve Best for 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1998 – Mick Gordon, Gate Theatre, London
1997 – Liza Walker for Closer
1996 – James Callis for Old Wicked Songs
[edit] Most Promising Newcomer (other than a playwright)
1995 – Victoria Hamilton for The Master Builder and Retreat
1994 – Rachel Weisz for Design for Living
1993 – Emma Fielding for Arcadia and The School for Wives
1992 – Rufus Sewell for Making It Better
1991 – Lia Williams for The Revengers' Comedies
1990 – Sara Crowe for Private Lives
1989 – Sam Mendes as director of the Minerva Studio, Chichester; joint winner with Julia Ormond for Faith, Hope and Charity
