New York Drama Critics' Circle Will Announce 2018 Awards Winners on May 3

The winners of the 2018 New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards will be announced Thursday, May 3, 2018 at approximately 5:30pm. The selections will be made at the organization's 83rd annual voting meeting.

The awards include a cash prize of $2,500 for Best Play, made possible by a grant from the Lucille Lortel Foundation. The awards will be presented at a private cocktail reception on Thursday, May 10.

The New York Drama Critics' Circle comprises 19 drama critics from daily newspapers, magazines, wire services and websites based in the New York metropolitan area. The New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, which has been awarded every year since 1936 to the best new play of the season (with optional awards for foreign or American plays, musicals and special achievements), is the nation's second-oldest theater award, after the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

Recent Best Play winners include Oslo (2017), The Humans (2016), Between Riverside and Crazy(2015), The Night Alive (2014), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2013) and Sons of the Prophet(2012). Recent Best Musical winners include The Band's Visit (2017), Shuffle Along (2016), Hamilton(2015), Fun Home (2014), Matilda (2013) and Once (2012). All the Way was named Best American Play in 2014, and Tribes was named Best Foreign Play in 2012.

Each year the New York Drama Critics' Circle may also award special citations to individuals, groups and/or productions for outstanding contribution. Recent recipients include playwrights Paula Vogel, Taylor Mac, Richard Nelson and Annie; artistic director Oskar Eustis; actors Lois Smith, Viola Davis and Mark Rylance; directors Ivo van Hove and Mike Nichols; designers Bob Crowley, John Lee Beatty and Jan Versweyveld; Ruben Santiago-Hudson and the cast of Jitney; theater companies Ars Nova, Soho Rep and Signature Theatre Company; and the Encores! series at New York City Center.

Adam Feldman, theater critic and editor for Time Out New York, has served as president of the NYDCC since 2005. Joe Dziemianowicz serves as vice president; Zachary Stewart is treasurer.

In addition to Feldman, Dziemianowicz and Stewart, the members of the New York Drama Critics' Circle are: Hilton Als, David Cote, Michael Feingold, David Finkle, Sara Holdren, Charles Isherwood, Christopher Kelly, David Rooney, Frank Scheck, Barbara Schuler, Helen Shaw, David Sheward, Marilyn Stasio, Terry Teachout, Elisabeth Vincentelli and Matt Windman. Emeritus members include Melissa Rose Bernardo, Robert Feldberg, Elysa Gardner, Brian Scott Lipton, Jesse Oxfeld, John Simon, Michael Sommers, Steven Suskin, Linda Winer and Richard Zoglin.

For more information on the New York Drama Critics' Circle, please visit www.dramacritics.org.