Photo Coverage: HAMILTON and BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY Win at the Drama Critics Circle Awards!
By: Walter McBride May. 20, 2015
The New York Drama Critics' Circle previously named Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly Guirgis, best play of the 2014-15 season. Hamilton was named best musical. The selections were made at the organization's 80th annual voting meeting, at the offices of Time Out New York in Manhattan. The awards were presented at a private cocktail reception last night, May 19. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the special celebration below!
The award for best play carries a cash prize of $2,500. The prize is made possible by a grant from theLucille Lortel Foundation.
Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Austin Pendleton, opened at theAtlantic Theater Company on July 30, 2014. The production transferred to Second Stage Theatre where it opened for a limited run on February 10, 2015, and closed March 22, 2015.
In BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY, City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed - and the Church won't leave him alone. For ex-cop and recent widower Walter "Pops" Washington and his recently paroled son Junior, the struggle to hold on to one of the last great rent stabilized apartments on Riverside Drive collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum in this dark comedy from the Tony-nominated author of The Motherf*ucker with the Hat and Jesus Hopped the A Train. For Pops and Junior, it seems the Old Days are dead and gone - after a lifetime living Between Riverside and Crazy.
Hamilton, book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, inspired by the book Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, directed by Thomas Kail, opened at the Public Theater on February 16, 2015; it closed May 3, 2015. The production transfers to Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre on July 13, 2015.
In Hamilton, Tony and Grammy Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda wields his pen and takes the stage as the unlikely founding father determined to make his mark on a new nation as hungry and ambitious as he is. From bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelong Hamilton friend and foe,Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America's fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we've become.
For more information on the New York Drama Critics' Circle and for details on the vote, visit www.dramacritics.org.
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
David Zayas and Liza Colon-Zayas
Bobby Cannavale and Thomas Kail
Lin-Manuel Miranda and John Kander
Leslie Odom Jr.
Ars Nova: Renee Blinkwolt (managing director) and Jason Eagan (artistic director) and Emily Shooltz (associate artistic director)
Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda and John Kander
Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda and John Kander
Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda and John Kander
Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda and John Kander
Stephen Adly Guirgis and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Stephen Adly Guirgis and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Bobby Cannavale and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Bobby Cannavale
Joe Dziemianowicz and Stephen Adly Guirgis
Bobby Cannavale and Stephen Adly Guirgis
Ars Nova: Emily Shooltz (associate artistic director), Renee Blinkwolt (managing director) and Jason Eagan (artistic director)
Ars Nova: Emily Shooltz (associate artistic director), Renee Blinkwolt (managing director) and Jason Eagan (artistic director)
Ars Nova: Emily Shooltz (associate artistic director), Renee Blinkwolt (managing director) and Jason Eagan (artistic director)
Ars Nova: Emily Shooltz (associate artistic director), Renee Blinkwolt (managing director) and Jason Eagan (artistic director)
Ars Nova: Emily Shooltz (associate artistic director), Renee Blinkwolt (managing director) and Jason Eagan (artistic director)
Ars Nova: Emily Shooltz (associate artistic director), Renee Blinkwolt (managing director) and Jason Eagan (artistic director)
Lin-Manuel Miranda and John Kander
Lin-Manuel Miranda and John Kander
Ars Nova: Emily Shooltz (associate artistic director), Renee Blinkwolt (managing director) and Jason Eagan (artistic director)
Emily Shooltz (associate artistic director), Bridget Everett, Renee Blinkwolt (managing director) and Jason Eagan (artistic director)
Christopher Jackson and Lin-Manuel Miranda
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