{"id":216209,"date":"2026-05-01T01:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216209\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:28:07","slug":"winners-of-the-2026-new-york-drama-critics-circle-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216209\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the 2026 New York Drama Critics\u2019 Circle Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening (Thursday, April 30, 2026) at 8 pm, winners of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dramacritics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">2026 New York Drama Critics\u2019 Circle Awards<\/a>,\u00a0recognizing excellence in NYC theater of the 2025\u20132026 season, were announced immediately following its members 90th annual voting meeting. Founded in 1935, the NYDCC \u2013 comprised of drama critics from newspapers, magazines, wire services, and websites in the New York metropolitan area \u2013 has, since 1936, presented the second-oldest award for playwriting (after the Pulitzer Prize for Drama), in addition to optional categories honoring musicals, performances, and special achievements. The Best Play\u00a0Award comes with a $2,500 cash prize funded by the Lucille Lortel Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"699\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/New-York-Drama-Critics-Circle-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342008\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The organization\u2019s current voting members are President Adam Feldman, Vice President and Treasurer Zachary Stewart, David Barbour, David Cote, Joe Dziemianowicz, Greg Evans, Rhoda Feng, David Finkle, Elysa Gardner, Robert Hofler, Sara Holdren, Charles Isherwood, Chris Jones, Soraya Nadia McDonald, Jackson McHenry, Emily Nussbaum, Johnny Oleksinski, Frank Scheck, David Sheward, Tim Teeman, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and Matt Windman. Emeritus members include Melissa Rose Bernardo, Brian Scott Lipton, Michael Sommers, and Steven Suskin.<\/p>\n<p>And the recipients of the 2026 New York Drama Critics\u2019 Circle Awards are:<\/p>\n<p>Best Play:\u00a0Little Bear Ridge Road, by Samuel D. Hunter<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Little-Bear-Ridge-Road-promo-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-387088\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Best Individual Performance:\u00a0Alden Ehrenreich, Becky Shaw<\/p>\n<p>Best Ensemble Performance:\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/p>\n<p>Special Citations: Lincoln Center Theater revival of Ragtime; Wallace Shawn and Andr\u00e9 Gregory for career achievement; and Qween Jean for the costume design of Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Liberation, and Saturday Church.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the winners and special honorees. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dramacritics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">The New York Drama Critics\u2019 Circle Awards<\/a> will be presented on Thursday, May 7, 2026, in a private ceremony in NYC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This evening (Thursday, April 30, 2026) at 8 pm, winners of the\u00a02026 New York Drama Critics\u2019 Circle Awards,\u00a0recognizing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,85240,56],"class_list":["post-216209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-drama-critics-circle-awards","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}