Bruce Norris’s Downstate and Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt have been named this season’s Best Play and Best Foreign Play, respectively, by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle at present.
Downstate opened final October in an Off Broadway manufacturing at Playwrights Horizons. Set at a downstate Illinois group house for males convicted of intercourse crimes, the play explored what the theater firm known as “the limits of compassion and forgiveness” when a person exhibits up on the house to confront his childhood abuser.
Leopoldstadt, impressed by Stoppard’s household historical past, chronicles a rich Jewish household in Vienna all through the primary half of the twentieth Century. The well-reviewed play has been nominated for six Tony Awards, together with Best Play.
The Drama Critics’ Circle additionally introduced the recipients of three Special Citations: The longstanding Off Off Broadway theater firm La Mama; the Ohio State Murders playwright Adrienne Kennedy, who made her Broadway debut this yr on the age 91; and the Broadway revival of Parade.
The critics group didn’t situation an award this yr for greatest new musical.
The awards can be offered at a ceremony on May 23.
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