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. Recent winners in the principal categories have been as follows.
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[edit] Best New Play
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
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
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 – Victoria Hamilton for As You Like It
[edit] Best Shakespearean Performance
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
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
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
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
