Caroline or Change wins London Critics'Circle Award

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/30/07 at 1:27pm

"In a speech read by the National’s Executive Director Nick Starr on behalf of Caroline, or Change co-writer Kushner, Kushner jokingly suggested, “Next time either of us anticipates opening a musical or a play or even a can of soup in New York, we will try to institute beforehand a transatlantic cultural exchange program by means of which you lot come over and fill in for the New York drama critics. Or at least some of them — we get to pick which. The New York drama critics we’ve selected will be sent...somewhere else. Florida, perhaps. While you’re all in New York, London will, for a brief time, be devoid of drama critics. But during the necessary temporary cessation of all British theatrical production, maybe one or two American plays will make it to Broadway!"


Best New Play
Rock ‘N’ Roll by Tom Stoppard

The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical (New or Revival)
Caroline, or Change

Best Actor
Rufus Sewell in Rock ‘N’ Roll

Best Actress
Kathleen Turner in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The John and Wendy Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance
Tamsin Greig in Much Ado About Nothing

Best Director
John Tiffany for Black Watch

Best Designer
The Punchdrunk Faust Company

Most Promising Playwright
Nina Raine for Rabbit

The Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer (other than a playwright)
Awarded jointly to Andrew Garfield in Beautiful Thing, Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship and The Overwhelming and Connie Fisher in The Sound of Music


http://www.theatre.com/story/id/3005726

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/30/07 at 1:30pm

YAY KATHLEEN!!!!

[AtLeastIveBeenThere]

Posted: 1/30/07 at 2:43pm

Good for _Caroline_, and well deserved.

[uncageg]

Posted: 1/30/07 at 2:54pm

Very well deserved!

[joshy]

Posted: 1/30/07 at 2:59pm

I'm so glad about this, it was my favourite show I saw last year. (And I saw over 50!) Hopefully it'll triumph at the Oliviers, too.

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 1/30/07 at 4:14pm

yeah!

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 1/30/07 at 5:48pm

Thank lord it finally got some recognition!