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28-601: The Outer Critics Circle was founded as the Outer Circle during the Broadway season of 1949–50 by an assortment of theater critics led by John Gassner , a reviewer, essayist, dramaturg, and professor of theater. These critics were writing for academic publications, special interest journals, monthlies, quarterlies, and weekly publications outside the New York metro area, and were looking for a forum where they could discuss

56-483: A Musical was a tie between Sutton Foster and Josefina Scaglione . Brian d'Arcy James won for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Outstanding New Broadway Play was won by God of Carnage . The John Gassner Award (presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright) was won by Gina Gionfriddo for Becky Shaw , and the Special Achievement Award was given to the three actors who share

84-650: A member of TDR's advisory board in 1958. From 1931 to 1944, he was play editor and later chairman of the Play Department of the Theatre Guild . In 1940, he joined Erwin Piscator 's Dramatic Workshop at the New School , where he taught playwriting and the history of theatre until 1949. In 1956, Gassner accepted the prestigious post of Sterling Professor of Playwriting and Dramatic Literature at

112-683: A total of four awards. Other winners included: Outstanding New Broadway Play for Red and Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play for The Orphans' Home Cycle , which won two awards. The Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical was a tie, won by Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and The Scottsboro Boys . La Cage aux Folles won four awards: Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Actor In A Musical ( Douglas Hodge ), Director (Terry Johnson), and Costume Design (Matthew Wright). Montego Glover ( Memphis ) and Catherine Zeta-Jones ( A Little Night Music ) tied for Outstanding Actress In A Musical. The nominees, announced on April 26, 2011, included nine nominations for

140-637: Is Asher Lev as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and Here Lies Love as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was named Outstanding Revival of a Play and Pippin as Outstanding Revival of a Musical. My Name is Asher Lev by Aaron Posner received the John Gassner Award. The Special Achievement Award was presented to the Irish Repertory Theatre . The nominees included 11 nominations for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder , 8 nominations for

168-551: The John Gassner Award. The Outer Critics Circle Award winners for the 2018–19 season include Hadestown (Musical), The Ferryman (Play), Girl From the North Country (Off-Broadway Musical), and White Noise (Off-Broadway Play). (Broadway or Off-Broadway) (Broadway or Off-Broadway) (Broadway or Off-Broadway) John Gassner John Waldhorn Gassner (January 30, 1903 – April 2, 1967)

196-557: The Yale Drama School and remained there until his death. He also taught at Columbia University , Queens College , and Hunter College . Gassner discovered and mentored writers who later attained fame in America and abroad, including Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams . These two, in particular, shaped the development of the canon of American drama after World War II. Gassner's writings and teaching inspired figures in

224-594: The 20th Century (2) and You Can't Take It With You (2). The John Gassner Award winner was The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar . The nominees included American Psycho and She Loves Me – 8; Bright Star and On Your Feet! – 7; Dear Evan Hansen – 6; Eclipsed , Lazarus , Long Day's Journey Into Night and Spring Awakening – 5; and The Humans , A View From the Bridge and Waitress – 4. Multiple winners: She Loves Me – 4; Long Day’s Journey Into Night – 3. The Outstanding New Broadway Musical

252-491: The American theatre, among them Joseph Papp and Richard Foreman . Papp turned to him for guidance and Foreman studied under him at Yale while completing his MFA in playwriting in 1962. Gassner mentored not only theater artists, but also editors like Edmund Fuller . Gassner died of a heart ailment at the age of 64. In an obituary, the performance theorist, director, and TDR editor Richard Schechner wrote that Gassner

280-783: The Angry Inch with 2 each. Three plays tied for the John Glassner Award: Eric Dufault, Year of the Rooster ; Madeleine George , The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence ; and Steven Levenson , The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin . The nominees included Something Rotten! – 12, On the Twentieth Century – 9, An American in Paris – 8, Wolf Hall – 7, It Shoulda Been You – 6, The Audience – 6, The Curious Incident of

308-636: The Dog in the Night-Time – 6, Hamilton – 5, The Elephant Man – 5, The King and I – 5, The Visit – 5, On The Town – 4, You Can't Take It with You – 4, The Heidi Chronicles – 3 and The Last Ship – 3. Multiple winners: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (5, including Outstanding New Broadway Play), An American in Paris (3, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical), Hamilton (3, including Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical), The King and I (3), The Audience (2), On

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336-648: The King and Travesties – 3. The award winners were announced on May 7, 2018. Multiple winners are: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with six awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Play, and My Fair Lady with five awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical. SpongeBob SquarePants won the Outstanding New Broadway Musical, with two additional awards. Jocelyn Bioh , for School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play won

364-742: The Prophet by Stephen Karam as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, and Michael John LaChiusa 's Queen of the Mist as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. The Submission by Jeff Talbot received the John Gassner Award. The nominees included 11 nominations for the revival of the musical Pippin , nine nominations for Kinky Boots , eight nominations (each) for Chaplin: The Musical and Cinderella and six nominations (each) for Golden Boy and The Nance . Winners include Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike as Outstanding New Broadway Play, Kinky Boots as Outstanding New Broadway Musical, My Name

392-706: The Stars , and Daniel Reed , Performances in Supporting Roles for Come Back, Little Sheba . In the early 1960s, the awards and forums of the OCC were supervised by Broadway veteran Charles K. Freeman and Joseph Kay, Manhattan reporter/critic for the Kansas City Star . This team was succeeded by Marjorie Gunner, who guided the group for 25 years before retiring in 2004. Simon Saltzman, a New Jersey–based theater critic, served as President until 2018, when he

420-460: The following categories: Billy Elliot the Musical and Shrek the Musical each received ten nominations, the most of any show. The winners were announced on May 11, 2009, with an awards dinner on May 21 at Sardi's Restaurant. Billy Elliot the Musical won seven awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, followed by Shrek the Musical with four. The award for Outstanding Actress in

448-472: The musical Sister Act , the most of any show. Anything Goes received eight nominations. The Special Achievement Awards were also announced: Ellen Barkin , Outstanding Broadway Debut in The Normal Heart ; and Adrian Kohler with Basil Jones for Handspring Puppet Company Puppet Design, Fabrication and Direction for War Horse . The winners were: The nominees included nine nominations for

476-599: The new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It , the most of any production, with the musicals Newsies and Once each receiving seven nominations and the revival of Follies receiving five. The Public Theater received an honorary award "on its 50th anniversary presenting free theatre at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park." Winners include One Man, Two Guvnors as Outstanding New Broadway Play, Once as Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Sons of

504-465: The new musical Aladdin , and 7 nominations for the new musical Fun Home ; the dramas Twelfth Night received 5 nominations, Act One 4 nominations, and All the Way 4 nominations. Winners of multiple awards were A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (including New Musical) with 4; Bullets Over Broadway and The Glass Menagerie with 3 each; and All the Way (including New Play) and Hedwig and

532-474: The role of Billy Elliot, David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish in Billy Elliot the Musical . Nominees for the 2009–2010 season were announced on April 26, 2010, by siblings Sutton Foster and Hunter Foster , with winners announced on May 17. Seven nominations each were received by the musical Memphis and the revival of The Royal Family , the most of any production. The Scottsboro Boys

560-499: The series called John Gassner Best Plays Series . His work as an editor and anthologist was ambitious enough to prompt Milton Esterow to remark in a review that "hardly a day seems to pass without the publication of a book by John Gassner." Gassner's records are kept at the Ransom Center and, to a smaller extent, at Sterling Memorial Library at Yale. Douglas Hodge Too Many Requests If you report this error to

588-526: The theater in general, particularly the current New York season. The creation of the OCC was also a reaction to the New York Drama Critics Circle, which did not allow critics of lesser-known publications to join their ranks alongside writers of major New York and national publications. The first awards (for 1949–50) were: The Cocktail Party (Play); The Consul (Musical); Sheila Guyse, Performances in Supporting Roles for Lost in

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616-822: Was Bright Star , and the Outstanding New Broadway Play was The Humans ; Outstanding Revival of a Play was Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Outstanding Revival of a Musical was She Loves Me . The John Gassner Award winner was Marco Ramirez for The Royale . The nominees included Anastasia – 13; Hello, Dolly! – 10; The Band's Visit and Come from Away – 7; Groundhog Day – 5; A Bronx Tale – 4; Falsettos , Holiday Inn , and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – 3; and Miss Saigon , Sunset Boulevard – 1. Multiple winners: Come from Away and Hello, Dolly! – 4; The Band's Visit and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – 2. The Outstanding New Broadway Musical

644-539: Was Come from Away , and the Outstanding New Broadway Play was Oslo ; Outstanding Revival of a Play was Jitney and Outstanding Revival of a Musical was Hello, Dolly! . The John Gassner Award winner was Bess Wohl for Small Mouth Sounds . The nominees included SpongeBob SquarePants – 11; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – 10; My Fair Lady – 9; Mean Girls – 8; Angels in America , Carousel , and Once on This Island – 6; Three Tall Women – 5; Frozen and Prince of Broadway – 4; Farinelli and

672-512: Was "a warm man" who had "a rare combination of humanity and intelligence." At the memorial service in New York City, playwright Robert Anderson and Yale dean Robert Brustein spoke. Gassner's anthologies appeared frequently and became a staple of the dramatic literature publishing world. Long after his death, even into the 1990s, Crown Publishers was issuing anthologies of The Best American Plays edited by other people but as part of

700-683: Was a Hungarian-born American theatre historian, critic, educator, and anthologist. At birth in the town of Máramarossziget , Hungary (today in Romania), he was given the name Jeno Waldhorn Gassner. He emigrated to the United States in 1911 with his family, and soon discovered theatre performance at his local school. Only four years in New York, he appeared in a school production of The Tempest . Gassner graduated from Dewitt Clinton High School in The Bronx. In his youth and early adulthood, he

728-533: Was a supporter of Socialism . Gassner received a Bachelor of Arts (1923) and Master of Arts (1924) degree from Columbia University . Gassner was prolific and successful as a writer and editor. He began his career as a book reviewer at The New York Herald-Tribune (1925–1928), also wrote frequently for New Theatre Magazine (1934–1937), The Forum (1937), Time Magazine (1938), Direction (1937–1941), One Act Play Magazine (1937–1941), and among several others, The Tulane Drama Review (1957–1967). He became

756-423: Was nominated for six awards, including Best Off-Broadway musical. Shows receiving five nominations were The Addams Family , Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson , The Orphans' Home Cycle , and Promises, Promises . Finian's Rainbow , La Cage aux Folles , Lend Me A Tenor , and Sondheim on Sondheim each received four nominations. The Outstanding New Broadway Musical award was won by Memphis , which won

784-543: Was succeeded by David Gordon of TheaterMania. In addition to Gordon (president) and Saltzman (now President Emeritus), the Board of Directors currently includes Richard Ridge (Vice President), Joseph Cervelli (Recording Secretary), Patrick Hoffman (Corresponding Secretary), David Roberts (treasurer), Harry Haun (Historian), Cynthia Allen (Web Editor), Janice Simpson (Member), Doug Strassler (member), Dan Rubins (member), and Stanley L. Cohen (advisor). Awards are currently given in

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