Critics' Circle Theatre Award

British theatrical award From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, known as the Drama Theatre Awards until 1990, are British theatrical awards presented annually for the closing year's theatrical achievements.[1] The winners, from theatre throughout the United Kingdom, are selected via vote by the professional theatre critics of The Critics' Circle.[2][3][4][5][6]

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Best Actor

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2022 Ben Daniels The Normal Heart
2023 Giles Terera Blues for an Alabama Sky and Othello
2024 Andrew Scott Vanya
2025 Mark Strong Oedipus
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Best Actress

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Best Designer

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1990s

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1990 Mark Thompson The Wind in the Willows
1991 Bob Crowley Murmuring Judges
1992 Ian MacNeil An Inspector Calls
1993 Machinal
1994 Mark Thompson The Kitchen
1995 Robin Don The Winter Guest
1996 Robert Innes Hopkins The Comedy of Errors and The Weavers
1997 John Napier Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
1998 Phelim McDermott, Julian Crouch and Graeme Gilmour Shockheaded Peter
Richard Hoover Not About Nightingales
1999 Julie Taymor and Richard Hudson The Lion King
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2010 Bunny Christie The White Guard
2011 Mark Tildesley Frankenstein
2012 Miriam Buether Wild Swans
2013 Es Devlin Chimerica
2014 The Nether
2015 Anna Fleischle Hangmen
2016 Christine Jones Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
2017 Vicki Mortimer Follies
2018 Bunny Christie Company
2019 Tom Scutt A Very Expensive Poison
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2022 Tom Scutt Cabaret
2023 Tom Pye My Neighbour Totoro
2024 Miriam Buether and 59 Productions Stranger Things: The First Shadow
2025 Frankie Bradshaw Ballet Shoes and Dear Octopus
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Best Director

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2022 Rebecca Frecknall Cabaret
2023 Lynette Linton Blues for an Alabama Sky
2024 Rupert Goold Dear England
2025 Robert Icke Oedipus
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Best Musical

Known as the 'Peter Hepple Award' from 2016 onwards.

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Best New Play

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1982 A Kind of Alaska Harold Pinter
1984 One for the Road Harold Pinter
1985 A Chorus of Disapproval Alan Ayckbourn
1986 Road Jim Cartwright
1987 Curtains Stephen Bill
Fashion Doug Lucie
1988 The Secret Rapture David Hare
1989 Ghetto Joshua Sobol
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2022 Best of Enemies James Graham
2023 Patriots Peter Morgan
2024 The Motive and the Cue Jack Thorne
2025 Giant Mark Rosenblatt
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Best Shakespearean Performance

Known as the 'John and Wendy Trewin Award' from 2000 until 2015, and 'The Trewin Award' from 2016 onwards.

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Most Promising Newcomer

Known as the 'Jack Tinker Award' from 1996 onwards.

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1989 Sam Mendes Artistic direction at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Julia Ormond Faith, Hope and Charity
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Most Promising Playwright

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1989 Stephen Jeffreys Valued Friends
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1990s

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1990 Clare McIntyre My Heart's a Suitcase
1991 Rona Munro Bold Girls
1992 Philip Ridley The Fastest Clock in the Universe
1993 Simon Donald Theatre of Stuff
1994 Kevin Elyot My Night With Reg
1995 Jez Butterworth Mojo
1996 Martin McDonagh The Beauty Queen of Leenane
1997 Conor McPherson The Weir
1998 Rebecca Prichard Yard Gal
1999 Charlotte Jones Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis
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2000 Joanna Laurens The Three Birds
2001 Gregory Burke Gagarin Way
2002 Charlotte Eilenberg The Lucky Ones
2003 Lucy Prebble The Sugar Syndrome
2004 Rebecca Lenkiewicz The Night Season
2005 Laura Wade Breathing Corpses and Colder Than Here
2006 Nina Raine Rabbit
2007 Polly Stenham That Face
2008 Alexi Kaye Campbell The Pride
2009 Alia Bano Shades
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2010 Anya Reis Spur of the Moment
2011 Tom Well The Kitchen Sink
2012 Lolita Chakrabarti Red Velvet
2013 Rory Kinnear The Herd
Phoebe Waller-Bridge Fleabag
2014 Barney Norris Visitors
2015 James Fritz Four Minutes Twelve Seconds
2016 Charlene James Cuttin’ It
2017 Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Gloria and An Octoroon
2018 Natasha Gordon Nine Night
2019 Jasmine Lee-Jones Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner
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2022 Igor Memic Old Bridge
Zadie Smith The Wife of Willesden
2023 Tyrell Williams Red Pitch
2024 Marcelo Dos Santos Backstairs Billy
Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini Sleepova
2025 Mark Rosenblatt Giant
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2017 David Lan Commendation for artistic direction at the Young Vic
2018 Neil McPherson Commendation for artistic direction at the Finborough Theatre
2019 Paule Constable Commendation for lighting design
2022 Jermyn Street Theatre Commendations for exceptional theatre-making during lockdown
National Theatre
Nica Burns
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Original Theatre Company
2023 New Diorama Theatre Recipient of the Peter Brook Award for an innovative venue
2024 Orange Tree Theatre Recipient of the Peter Brook Award for an innovative venue
2025 The Yard Theatre Recipient of the Peter Brook Award for an innovative venue
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