Photo Coverage: Inside the 2019 New York Drama Critics Awards Presentation and Reception
By: Genevieve Rafter Keddy May. 14, 2019
The New York Drama Critics' Circle recently announced their 2019 winners.
The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth was named best play of the 2018-19 season. The award for best musical went to Tootsie. What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck was named best American play. The selections were made at the organization's 84th annual voting meeting.
The awards were presented at a private cocktail reception on Monday, May 13. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out the photos below!
The award for best play carries a cash prize of $2,500; the award for best American play is a cash prize of $1,000. The prizes are made possible by a grant from the Lucille Lortel Foundation.
Special citations were voted to theater companies Irish Repertory Theatre and Page 73, as well as the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene production of Fiddler on the Roof.
Photo Credit: Genevieve Rafter Keddy
Adam Feldman (Host)
Nation Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Production of Fiddler on The Roof was honored with a Citation
Melissa Errico Presented a Citation to The Irish Reperatory Theatre's Ciaran O'Reilly and Charlotte Moore
Michael R. Jackson presented a Citation to Page 73
Staff of Page 73
Tony Shalhoub Presented Tootsie with Best Musical Honors
David Yazbek and Michael Horn
Neil Pepe Presented Best Play to The Ferryman
Fionnula Flanagan Accepts on behalf of the Playwright Jez Butterworth
Leigh Silverman Presents Best American Play to What The Constitution Means To Me
Heidi Schreck (Playwrght)
Julie Halston, Austin Pendleton and Lilli Cooper
Mery Beth McCarthy Yarrow, Shiovaun O'Casey, Ciaran O'Reilly, Charlotte Moore and Lisa Fana
Mery Beth McCarthy Yarrow, Shiovaun O'Casey, Ciaran O'Reilly, Charlotte Moore and Melissa Errico
Cast Members of The Ferryman that include-Fred Applegate, Ralph Brown, Charles Dale, Shuler Hensley, Ann McDonough, Glenn Speers and resident director Benjamin Klein
Sarah Stiles, Denis Jones and Lilli Cooper
Cast and Creative Members of Tootsie
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