#the critics circle theatre awards

[judi-daily]

The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, 2016 Photographer: Dave M Benett

winner of Best Shakespearean Performance for The Winter's Tale

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fuck yeah! :)

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Mark Gatiss attends the 33rd Annual UK Critics' Circle Theatre Awards at @sohoplace on March 25, 2024 in London, England.

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David Tennant just won "Best Shakespearean Performance" for his portrayal of MacBeth, from the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 👏👏👏 🥳

Very well deserved! It was the best of the four DT stage productions I've seen, and hoping to get a chance to see it again this Autumn 🍂 🙏

[chestnutelm122]

The fact that Jodie Comer swept all the major awards for theater is crazy: OLIVIER. DRAMA DESK. OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE. THE EVENING STANDARD. THEATRE WORLD AWARDS. And now, THE TONY AWARDS.

These award giving bodies hailed Jodie Marie Comer as the best lead actress in a play for Prima Facie this year.

She’s 30 years old. And already has TWO out of FOUR, making it halfway through an EGOT STATUS.

She’s one award short of completing the acting trifecta, and we all know she’s getting that Academy Award within 2-5 years.

This woman’s talent is crazy. I love her and I’m so proud to witness all of her achievements so far. Watch out, world. This woman has just begun.

**PS: Out of the 10 nominations Jodie Comer has gotten so far, she’s already won 8 out of them. For one show. And of the two awards she didn’t get, one of those was a category where all performances were combined (musical and straight play), and the other one was voted by fans. She won the most important awards. And she didn’t even go to drama school. That’s just pure talent. Amazing.

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can’t believe we live in a world where the moment David Tennant wins an award, he starts trending on tumblr

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'Irish star Andrew Scott has made history after becoming the first to win the best actor gong from both the film and theatre Critics’ Circle in the same year.

His one-man performance in Vanya, an adaption of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s family drama Uncle Vanya, secured him the theatre prize on Monday at Soho Place in London.

It comes after he was named actor of the year at the London Film Critics’ Circle for his lead role in Andrew Haigh’s moving drama All Of Us Strangers last month.

Collecting the prize at the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, Scott said about the arts: “A lot of people need it, I need it and we all do so the arts should be protected and they should be celebrated and they should be funded.

“So I just want to say thank you to the artists.”...'

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Accolades by the Numbers:

AUDRA MCDONALD VS BERNADETTE PETERS: VOTE HERE

Audra McDonald | Bernadette Peters

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David Tennant as Macbeth for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)

In celebration of his 2024 Critics Circle Theatre Awards Best Shakespearean Performance win on March 25 2024 Photographer: Marc Brenner

[onlydylanobrien]

Dylan O’Brien Pic ‘Twinless’ Becomes Second Movie To Be Pulled From Sundance Streaming Site Due To Piracy

UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM SUNDANCE: Twinless, a very hot title at Sundance, has been pulled from the festival’s streaming site due to piracy.

This is the second movie on the fest’s portal to be pulled after online leaking. Yesterday we told you first that the fest award winning documentary Selena y Los Dinos was dropped from the Sundance site after making its way on TikTok, etc.

The Mazerunner and High Road actor Dylan O’Brien plays twin brothers Rocky and Roman. Rocky dies tragically, and his lover Dennis (Sweeney who stars, directs and wrote the movie) feels responsible. He befriends Roman in a twin grieving therapy circle, pining for his late lover. There’s some spicy sex scenes in Twinless, however, it was more than that which was leaked online, sources tell us.

Twinless was part of Sundance’s opening day films and out of the gate counts 100% on Rotten Tomatoes among critics.

Sundance requires those movies in competition to be part of their online portal. Twinless won the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic and a Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting for O’Brien.

Sundance began streaming its lineup during Covid, and continued the practice after the live-edition returned in 2023. The Sundance streaming portal is five years in the running. The streaming facet of this year’s edition began on Jan. 30 and shuts down before midnight tomorrow, Feb. 2. The whole idea of the portal has divided the industry that frequents Sundance. The fest reported in 2021 that half million people tuned into their streaming portal to watch movies.

Republic Pictures is the acquisition label for Paramount Pictures. They made the James Sweeney directed and written bromance dramedy for a cost in the single digits. One source close to the movie tells us that “buyers are circling the movie like planes at O’Hare airport”.

Below is Sundance’s statement on the situation:

The film Twinless was a victim of some copyright infringement on various social media platforms, therefore the Festival in partnership with the filmmakers have made the decision to remove the film from the Sundance Film Festival online platform. We regret that online ticket holders will no longer be able to access the film. For any single ticket holder who has not yet viewed the film, your account will reflect a voucher so you may select another film to screen. We intend to keep the Sundance Film Festival platform fully available for all remaining films. We acknowledge and regret the disappointment this may cause. However, part of our commitment to advocating for independent filmmakers is ensuring that they can protect the art that they have created — now and in the future.  We take copyright infringement extremely seriously and intend to fully cooperate with local, state, and federal law enforcement on all piracy-related issues.

Source: deadline.com

“I woke up this morning with an email thread about people posting spoilers with photos. If anyone’s seen the film, you know what I’m talking about. So I guess the audience really does like the film,” Sweeney said upon accepting the Audience Award during Friday’s ceremony at the Ray Theatre.

Source: indiewire.com

[judi-daily]

The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, 2016 Photographer: Dan Wooller

*winner of Best Shakespearean Performance for The Winter's Tale

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Darren Criss and Helen J Shen Make Robots Feel More Human in Maybe Happy Ending

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Darren Criss and Helen J Shen are currently starring in Maybe Happy Ending, a new musical at the Belasco Theatre where they play two retired Helper-bots who formerly assisted humans with their day-to-day tasks. Set in the future and directed by Michael Arden (Parade, Once On This Island), the show takes the audience on a journey through love, loss, and belonging. It’s received rave reviews on Broadway after first debuting in South Korea, then moving to Japan, China, and Atlanta, Georgia.

This marks Criss’s return to Broadway after stints in American Buffalo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He also starred as Blaine Anderson in Glee and won an Emmy Award for his performance as Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. Shen is making her Broadway debut after recently graduating from the University of Michigan.

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Darren Criss: I was about to go into tech rehearsal for American Buffalo at the top of 2020, an American contemporary classic play with Sam Rockwell and Laurence Fishburne. I was like, “Wow, dude, the show is cooking. I’m opening this on Broadway. All these incredible things are happening.” Then, it was no more. I feel like I went through the pandemic with these two men [Rockwell and Fishburne], because we were all so excited to be part of this show. We would FaceTime regularly, read through the play, and talk about life. The show went on in our minds. We weren’t sure if we were ever going to get to do it.

That was something we kept chugging through, and we finally got to come back in ’22 with some of these things which now seems so in the rearview mirror: COVID restrictions and testing and audiences wearing masks. We were very diligent about all that stuff, and luckily we’re on the other side of that.

But at that time, that show was the longest I’d ever been on Broadway. The poster for that show at Circle in The Square [Theater] remained there for two and a half something years, even though the show hadn’t ever opened.

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Talkback On their initial reactions to Maybe Happy Ending:

Criss: I think the best stories we’ve heard are the ones we weren’t prepared to hear. It’d be like if Batman wasn’t as culturally ubiquitous as it is, and I tried to pitch you Batman. You’d be like, “That sounds so dumb. Rich guy fights a clown? This sounds absolutely ridiculous, and there’s no way this is going to be one of the most popular IPs the world has ever seen.”

That is what’s so exciting: When you feel people in the audience truly not knowing what’s going to happen, whether production-wise or as a spectacle. You don’t know if some things are going to look a certain way, you don’t know things are going to sound a certain way, and you don’t know if the story is going to feel a certain way.

Musicals live and die by their music. I love Shakespeare, but I’m not listening to Shakespeare in the car on the way to work in the subway. Musicals have that. They have this sort of extracurricular component that you can have forever after the fact. When I listened to the music, I was like, “Oh, wait. Hang on. This is really special. Why is this so smart? Why is this so beautiful and elegant and sophisticated and familiar and nostalgic?”

That keyed me in. And then I read the script and I went, “Wait, hang on.” I am glad that I was available to do it, because I think it’s one of the greatest things that could have happened to me at this point in my life.

Shen: It felt like a very kismet meeting of minds and hearts and souls and stuff. Still to this day, I’m like, “Thanks for having me, you guys.”

Criss: This was a train that was bound for glory with or without us.

On what they’ve learned from each other:

Criss: We went to University of Michigan together. That’s certainly a fun relating point, and something that I’m really proud of, the fact that two U of M alums share the marquee of the Belasco Theater. That’s so special.

But, to keep using the academic reference, I am an upperclassman now, which is very strange for me, as I kind of crossfade into that chapter of my life. I’ve always been the young gun. Now, being on the other side of that, I feel like I’ve been given a role of, “Okay, I am a senior now. I tell the freshmen what’s what, and hopefully, I’m saying something correct.” It’s an occasion I have to rise to. In rehearsals, from the very beginning, the loud voices of doubt were certainly prominent. I think Darren, Michael, the people who have more experience in the industry, and just experience in existing in these spaces, have taught me how to not apologize for my space that I take up, which is something that I think I���m still processing and still will continue to be processing throughout.

On what this show means for Asian-American representation on Broadway:

Shen: It means everything to me. If I was sitting in the audience, to see a show like this, to see someone who looks like me embody this character, be nuanced, be flawed, be all the kinds of things, instead of just the flavoring of a body, is everything to me.

Growing up, if you don’t see an example on the path that you’re choosing, it can feel impossible. You feel like, “Oh, there’s one spot.” That is so frustrating, to feel that sense of competition with people who look like me, instead of feeling like I stand in solidarity with them and stand in power next to them.

It’s been amazing to talk to people at the stage door who are like, “I’ve never seen myself represented on stage in this way.” I’ve never felt it where my Asian-ness isn’t the only thing that is my character. To have my Asian-ness be just a fact [of my character] is so much. It means so much to me. To see my parents see that, too. They wanted to protect me so much. They wanted me not to feel pain in this industry, and for them to see that I can inspire others is probably really exciting for them, and exciting for me too.

Criss: Everything that has happened for this show thus far was not on my itinerary. The response has been wonderful, but that’s not why we’re doing it. It’s not why we’re here. We’re in it because we found a beautiful story that we fell in love with, and we’re lucky enough to be asked to join it. It’s better to pursue something you love and potentially fail than succeed at something that you can’t stand. We’re in that rarefied wave, which is the combination of your passion and excitement matching those who are outside of it.

I want to be very clear about this, I think what I love about this show’s heart and soul is not that it is an Asian show. It is inhabited by Asian-American actors, and those Asian-American actors represent something really beautiful. I love the idea that in the future, this is a show that can have anybody from any background in it, because the story is so enduring and such a human story. My million dollar clickbait line is that I believe that the show is about as Korean as Romeo and Juliet is Italian. It’s just where we set our scene.

Now, at the same time, fuck yeah—Asian excellence on Broadway. It’s really exciting. Having any kind of representation in any mainstream commercial form of entertainment is wonderful.

On Elsie Fest, Broadway’s Music Festival, which Criss co-created and produces every year:

Criss: Elsie is such a passion project for me. It’s for this community that I love so very much, and I’m so pleased that it’s taken on a bit of a life of its own. I will keep doing it for as long as I can.

Having people like Helen, and the new guns, like Joy Woods, Lizzy McAlpine, and Rachel Zegler, people who will show up to be a part of this, is so encouraging to me. It gives me such faith in a community that I already have endless faith in and love and appreciation for. It is my small way of thanking this community for what it has given my life and trying to give it back in whatever way that I can.

Shen: Elsie, to me, it’s a love letter to the inner child, to the inner theater kid that we all are continuously. I have been a fan of this, obviously, for years. I can’t believe I got to sing A Very Potter Musical this year.

Criss: Andrew Barth Feldman was at the first Elsie Fest ever in 2015, almost 10 years ago, a little brace-faced teenager at the VIP meet and greet to meet StarKid, my friends from Michigan who made A Very Potter Musical, and there he was almost 10 years later singing the song that he was there to support with us. That is the best.

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Congratulations to Andrew for his Critics Circle Theatre Awards - Best Actor win for Vanya and for becoming the first to win Critics Circle - Best Actor for both Film and Theatre in the same year!

L-R Isabella Pappas, Sam Yates, Andrew Scott and Sarah Hemming pose with the Best Actor award during the 33rd Annual UK Critics' Circle Theatre Awards at @sohoplace on March 25, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Benjamin Lowy, Andrew Scott and Emily Vaughn-Barrett

[thealogie]

One more sleep to David Tennant and Andrew Scott both winning critics circle theatre awards. If they take a picture afterwards in their respective beautiful suits (bright colorful monochrome edition vs dark sparkly edition) I’ll simply perish

[glennk56]

Peter Wight, fat British actor. When he first appeared on TV, he was a thin to averaged-sized man. I'm guessing, but I'd say he let himself get bigger because in the UK, unlike in the US, there is a demand for portly, mature men in the acting world.

Photos.

1996 (at an event).

2003 Three Blind Mice.

2003. My Family S4E4.

2005. Waking the Dead S5E9.

2006. The Gil Mayo Mysteries S1E8.

2008. Lark Rise to Candleford S1E3.

2010. Another Year.

2011. Accused S1E3.

2011. at The London Film Critic Circle Awards.

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2011. My Week With Marilyn.

2012. Titanic (4 part Mini-Series)

2013. theatre production; Much Ado About Nothing.

2013. The Paradise S1E6.

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2015. theatre production; The Red Lion.

2017. theatre production;Hamlet.

2017. (at an event).

2018. theatre production; The Birthday Party.

(same)

2018. Vanity Fsir S1E6.

(same)

2019. A Confession (Mini-Series)

(same).

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2021. Cyrano.

(same)

2022. His Dark Materials. S3E4.

1978. The Sweeney S4E13.