NY Drama Critics Circle Honors Doubt and Pillowman

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 6:25pm

From Broadway.com:

"John Patrick Shanley's Doubt was named Best Play, and Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman was awarded Best New Foreign Play when the New York Drama Critics' Circle announced their annual awards on May 11. Despite a plentiful crop of musicals this season, the committee chose not to name a Best Musical.
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Founded in 1935, the Circle is comprised of 20 drama critics from daily newspapers, magazines, and wire services based in the New York metropolitan area. Michael Sommers of The Star-Ledger/Newhouse Newspapers is the president of the organization.

In addition to Sommers, the members of the New York Drama Critics' Circle are Clive Barnes of The New York Post, David Cote of Time Out New York, Gordon Cox of Newsday, Michael Feingold of The Village Voice, Robert Feldberg of The Bergen Record, Adam Feldman of Time Out New York, Elysa Gardner of USA Today, John Heilpern of The New York Observer Howard Kissel of The Daily News, Michael Kuchwara of The Associated Press, Jacques le Sourd of Gannett Newspapers, Ken Mandelbaum of Broadway.com, Jeremy McCarter of The New York Sun, David Rooney of Variety, Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter, David Sheward of Back Stage, John Simon of New York, Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal, Linda Winer of Newsday and Richard Zoglin of Time."


http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=512136

Updated On: 5/11/05 at 06:25 PM

[Qfan2.0]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 6:34pm

is there aby doubt in anyones mind thar doubt wont win every award this season?(not a bad thing)

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 6:58pm

You know, it kinda pisses me off that they didn't give an award for Best Musical. What this usually means is that they didn't think any show was worthy of the award. But isn't this one of the best Broadway musical seasons in memory? What the #&%@ is their problem?

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 7:03pm

And rightfully so. However, it was surprising they chose not to honor a Best musical...

[sabrelady]

Posted: 5/11/05 at 7:39pm

VERY odd. By what musical standards are they judging ?