The New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards are presented each May by critics from all New York City's newspapers, magazines and wire services except the New York Times.
2006–2007
Best Play | The Coast of Utopia |
Best American Play | Radio Golf |
Best Musical | Spring Awakening |
Special Citation | The Broadway revival of Journey's End |
2005–2006
Best Play | Doubt, a Parable |
Best Foreign Play | The Pillowman |
Best Musical | Not awarded |
2003–2004
Best Play | Intimate Apparel |
Best Musical | Not awarded |
Best Foreign Play | Not awarded |
Special Award | Barbara Cook |
2002–2003
Best Play | Take Me Out |
Best Musical | Hairspray |
Best Foreign Play | Talking Heads |
2001–2002
Best Play | The Goat |
Best Musical | Not awarded |
Special Award | Elaine Stritch: At Liberty |
2000–2001
Best New Play | The Invention of Love |
Best Musical | The Producers |
Best American Play | Proof |
1999–2000
Best New Play | Jitney |
Best Musical | James Joyce's The Dead |
Best Foreign Play | Copenhagen |
1998–1999
Best New Play | Wit |
Best Musical | Parade |
Best Foreign Play | Closer |
Special Citation | David Hare |
1997–1998
Best New Play | Art |
Best Musical | The Lion King |
Best American Play: | Pride's Crossing |
Special Citation | Cabaret |
1996–1997
Best New Play | How I Learned to Drive |
Best Musical | Violet |
Skylight Joan Marcus | Best Foreign Play | Skylight |
Special Award | To the cast and creative team of Chicago for their distinguished contribution to the Broadway season. |
1995–1996
Best New Play | Seven Guitars |
Best Foreign Play | Molly Sweeney |
Best Musical | Rent |
Special Citation | Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert, for its concert performances of overlooked musicals |
1994–1995
Best Play | Arcadia, Tom Stoppard |
Citation for Best American Play | Love! Valour! Compassion!, Terrence McNally |
Citation for Best Musical | No award given |
Outstanding Achievement Award | Signature Theatre Company, which dedicated its season to the works by Horton Foote |
1993–1994
Best Play | Three Tall Women, Edward Albee |
| Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Anna Deavere Smith, writer/actress, received an award “for unique contribution to theatrical form.” |
1992–1993
Best Play | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Tony Kushner |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Frank McGuinness |
Citation for Best Musical | Kiss of the Spider Woman, John Kander, Fred Ebb and Terrence McNally |
1991–1992
Best Play | Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel |
Citation for Best American Play | Two Trains Running, August Wilson |
1990–1991
Best Play | Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Our Country's Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker |
Citation for Best Musical | The Will Rogers Follies, Cy Coleman, Peter Stone, Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Special Citation | Eileen Atkins, A Room of One's Own |
1989–1990
Best Play | The Piano Lesson, August Wilson |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Privates on Parade, Peter Nichols |
Citation for Best Musical | City of Angels, Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman and David Zippel |
1988–1989
Best Play | The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Aristocrats, Brian Friel |
Special Citation | Largely New York, Bill Irwin |
1987–1988
Best Play | Joe Turner's Come and Gone, August Wilson |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | The Road to Mecca, Athol Fugard |
Citation for Best Musical | Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine |
1986–1987
Best Play | Fences, August Wilson |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton |
Citation for Best Musical | Les Misérables, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil |
1985–1986
Best Play | Lie of the Mind, Sam Shepard |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Benefactors, Michael Frayn |
Special Citation | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner |
1984–1985
Best Play | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, August Wilson |
1983–1984
Best Play | The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard |
Citation for Best American Play | Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet |
Citation for Best Musical | Sunday in the Park With George, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine |
1982–1983
Best Play | Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Plenty, David Hare |
Citation for Best Musical | Little Shop of Horrors, Alan Menken and Howard Ashman |
1981–1982
Best Play | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, adapted by David Edgar |
Citation for Best American Play | A Soldier's Play, Charles Fuller |
1980–1981
Best Play | A Lesson From Aloes, Athol Fugard |
Citation for Best American Play | Crimes of the Heart, Beth Henley |
1979–1980
Best Play | Talley's Folly, Lanford Wilson |
| Evita, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Betrayal, Harold Pinter |
1978–1979
Best Play | The Elephant Man, Bernard Pomerance |
Citation for Best Musical | Sweeney Todd, Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim |
1977–1978
Best Play | Da, Hugh Leonard |
Citation for Best Musical | Ain't Misbehavin', conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr. |
1976–1977
Best Play | Otherwise Engaged, Simon Gray |
Citation for Best American Play | American Buffalo, David Mamet |
Citation for Best Musical | Annie, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin |
1975–1976
Best Play | Travesties, Tom Stoppard |
Citation for Best American Play | Streamers, David Rabe |
Citation for Best Musical | Pacific Overtures, Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman and Hugh Wheeler |
1974–1975
Best Play | Equus, Peter Shaffer |
Citation for Best American Play | The Taking of Miss Janie, Ed Bullins |
Citation for Best Musical | A Chorus Line, James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante |
1973–1974
Best Play | The Contractors, David Storey |
Citation for Best American Play | Short Eyes, Miguel Pinero |
Citation for Best Musical | Candide, Leonard Bernstein, Hugh Wheeler and Richard Wilbur |
1972–1973
Best Play | The Changing Room, David Storey |
Citation for Best American Play | The Hot I Baltimore, Lanford Wilson |
Citation for Best Musical | A Little Night Music, Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim |
1971–1972
Best Play | That Championship Season, Jason Miller |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | The Screens, Jean Genet |
Citation for Best Musical | Two Gentlemen of Verona, adapted by John Guare and Mel Shapiro |
1970–1971
Best Play | Home, David Storey |
Citation for Best American Play | The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare |
Citation for Best Musical | Follies, James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim |
1969–1970
Best Play | Borstal Boy, Frank McMahon |
Citation for Best American Play | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel |
Citation for Best Musical | Company, George Furth and Stephen Sondheim |
1968–1969
Best Play | The Great White Hope, Howard Sackler |
Citation for Best Musical | 1776, Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone |
1967–1968
Best Play | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard |
Citation for Best Musical | Your Own Thing, Donald Driver, Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar |
1966–1967
Best Play | The Homecoming, Harold Pinter |
Citation for Best Musical | Cabaret, Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb |
1965–1966
Best Play | The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, Peter Weiss |
| The Man of La Mancha, Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion |
1964–1965
Best Play | The Subject Was Roses, Frank D. Gilroy |
Citation for Best Musical | Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick |
1963–1964
Best Play | Luther, John Osborne |
Citation for Best Musical | Hello, Dolly, Michael Stewart and Jerry Herman |
Special Citation | The Trojan Women, Euripides |
1962–1963
Best Play | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee |
Special Citation | Beyond the Fringe, Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore |
1961–1962
Best Play | The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt |
Citation for Best Musical | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert and Frank Loesser |
1960–1961
Best Play | All the Way Home, Tad Mosel |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | A Taste of Honey, Shelagh Delaney |
Citation for Best Musical | Carnival, Michael Stewart |
1959–1960
Best Play | Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Five Finger Exercise, Peter Shaffer |
Citation for Best Musical | Fiorello!, Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick |
1958–1959
Best Play | A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | The Visit, Friedrich Duerrenmatt-Maurice Valency |
Citation for Best Musical | La Plume de ma Tante, Robert Dhery and Gerard Calvi |
1957–1958
Best Play | Look Homeward, Angel, Ketti Frings |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Look Back in Anger, John Osborne |
Citation for Best Musical | The Music Man, Meredith Willson |
1956–1957
Best Play | Long Day's Journey Into Night, Eugene O'Neill |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Waltz of the Toreadors, Jean Anouilh |
Citation for Best Musical | The Most Happy Fella, Frank Loesser |
1955–1956
Best Play | The Diary of Anne Frank, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Tiger at the Gates, Jean Giraudoux and Christopher Fry |
Citation for Best Musical | My Fair Lady, Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner |
1954–1955
Best Play | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Witness for the Prosecution, Agatha Christie |
Citation for Best Musical | The Saint of Bleecker Street, Gian Carlo Menotti |
1953–1954
Best Play | The Teahouse of the August Moon, John Patrick |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Ondine, Jean Giraudoux |
Citation for Best Musical | The Golden Apple, John Latouche and Jerome Moross |
1952–1953
Best Play | Picnic, William Inge |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | The Love of Four Colonels, Peter Ustinov |
Citation for Best Musical | Wonderful Town, Joseph Fields, Jerome Chodorov, Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Leonard Bernstein |
1951–1952
Best Play | I Am a Camera, John Van Druten Based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories. |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Venus Observed, Christopher Fry |
Citation for Best Musical | Pal Joey, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and John O'Hara |
Distinguished and Original Contribution to Theater | Don Juan in Hell, George Bernard Shaw |
1950–1951
Best Play | Darkness at Noon, Sidney Kingsley |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | The Lady's Not for Burning, Christopher Fry |
Citation for Best Musical | Guys and Dolls, Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling and Frank Loesser |
1949–1950
Best Play | The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | The Cocktail Party, T. S. Eliot |
Citation for Best Musical | The Consul, Gian Carlo Menotti |
1948–1949
Best Play | Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | The Madwoman of Chaillot, Jean Giraudoux and Maurice Valency |
Citation for Best Musical | South Pacific, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan |
1947–1948
Best Play | A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | The Winslow Boy, Terence Rattigan |
1946–1947
Best Play | All My Sons, Arthur Miller |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre |
Citation for Best Musical | Brigadoon, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe |
1945–1946
Best Play | No award |
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II Archive Photos | Citation for Best Musical | Carousel, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II |
1944–1945
Best Play | The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams |
1943–1944
Best Play | No award |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Jacobowsky and the Colonel, Franz Werfel and S. N. Behrman |
1942–1943
Best Play | The Patriots, Sidney Kingsley |
1941–1942
Best Play | No award |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Blithe Spirit, Noel Coward |
1940–1941
Best Play | Watch on the Rhine, Lillian Hellman |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | The Corn Is Green, Emlyn Williams |
1939–1940
Best Play | The Time of Your Life, William Saroyan |
1938–1939
Best Play | No award |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | The White Steed, Paul Vincent Carroll |
1937–1938
Best Play | Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck |
Citation for Best Foreign Play | Shadow and Substance, Paul Vincent Carroll |
1936–1937
Best Play | High Tor, Maxwell Anderson |
1935–1936
Best Play | Winterset, Maxwell Anderson |
Recipients of Kennedy Center Honors
Outer Critics Circle Awards
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