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49-601: 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

98-565: A Musical for La Cage aux Folles in 2010. He was also nominated for Best Actor in the 2005 Evening Standard Awards for his role in Dumbshow at the Royal Court . Douglas starred as Albin in the Broadway transfer of La Cage aux Folles , for which his performance won him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical , a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical , and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in

147-483: 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

196-859: A Musical. He originally played the role in London in 2008 at the Menier Chocolate Factory and then at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End. With Peter Searles, Hodge co-wrote Pacha Mama's Blessing and Forest People , about the Amazon Rainforest , performed by the National Youth Theatre on BBC Television in 1989. He appeared in the BBC 's production Middlemarch , adapted by Andrew Davies from

245-550: A UK tour. When his production opened in the West End, Nancy Carroll took over from Hattie Morahan in the role of the vicar's young wife. In May 2007 he displayed a lyric tenor voice as Frank, the neurosurgeon in A Matter of Life and Death with the Kneehigh Theatre company at the National Theatre, a production with music, based on events in the film of the same name. Also in 2007 he guest starred in

294-560: A book by Johnny McKnight (from a stage adaptation by Zinnie Harris ) at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre . The musical was due to open in May 2020, however was postponed to July 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Hodge has parallel careers as a writer, director and composer, most recently directing Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2012. He was Associate Director at

343-650: 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

392-683: 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

441-637: 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

490-589: Is an English actor, director and musician. He has had an extensive career in theatre, as well as film and television where he has appeared in Robin Hood (2010), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return and Diana (both 2013), Penny Dreadful (2016), Catastrophe (2018), Joker and Lost in Space (both 2019), and The Great (2020–2023). Hodge was born on 25 February 1960 in Plymouth , Devon . When he

539-548: The Doctor Who audio dramas Urban Myths and Son of the Dragon . In 2008, Hodge starred as Albin in the London revival of La Cage aux Folles which played originally at the Menier Chocolate Factory . He later reprised this role at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End and won the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. In 2010, The London production of La Cage aux Folles transferred to Broadway , at

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588-554: The American Airlines Theatre . Hodge wrote a musical with Aschlin Ditta , temporarily called Meantime . Josefina Gabrielle , Denis Lawson and several others participated in a cast recording, and actors including Rory Kinnear , Indira Varma and Cillian Murphy participated in a reading of the book. He wrote the music and lyrics for the musical 101 Dalmatians , based on the novel by Dodie Smith with

637-1021: The Comedy Theatre in February 1993; Moonlight at the Almeida Theatre in September 1993; A Kind of Alaska , The Lover ; The Collection at the Donmar Warehouse in May 1998; as Jerry in Betrayal at the Royal National Theatre 's Lyttelton Theatre, in November 1998; and as Aston in The Caretaker at the Comedy Theatre in November 2000, co-starring Michael Gambon (Davies) and Rupert Graves (Mick), directed by Patrick Marber – for which he

686-592: The Donmar Theatre directing Dimetos in 2009, Absurdia in 2007. He directed the world premiere of Last Easter by Bryony Lavery at Birmingham Repertory Theatre , and See How They Run . He also directed the Millennium Dome Show in the year 2000. Hodge has received Olivier Award nominations for Best Actor for Inadmissible Evidence in 2012 and Best Actor in a Musical for Guys and Dolls in 2006, winning Best Actor in

735-551: 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)

784-553: The Longacre Theatre , with Hodge as Albin, and Kelsey Grammer as Georges. Hodge won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance. A 2011 revival of John Osborne 's Inadmissible Evidence at the Donmar Theatre , London, offered Hodge another role, as Maitland, the lawyer in crisis. Hodge received an Olivier Award nomination for his performance. In 2012, Hodge returned to Broadway when he starred as Cyrano de Bergerac in

833-709: The Roundabout Theatre Company 's revival of Cyrano de Bergerac at the American Airlines Theatre . In October 2012, Hodge was cast as Willy Wonka in the musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane London. In 2015, Hodge made his debut as a Broadway director, helming a revival of Pinter's 1971 play Old Times , which starred Clive Owen , Eve Best and Kelly Reilly , and opened at

882-682: The Roundhouse . In April 2003 he portrayed Andrei in Michael Blakemore 's revival of Chekhov 's Three Sisters at the Playhouse Theatre . In 2004, he made his Royal Court debut as Barry in Joe Penhall 's study of entrapment journalism Dumb Show , directed by Terry Johnson . Hodge's directorial debut came in 2004, at the Oxford Playhouse in a double bill of The Dumb Waiter and Other Pieces . Hodge appeared in

931-557: 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

980-573: The 2005 revival of Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre playing Nathan Detroit opposite Ewan McGregor playing Sky Masterson. He received an Olivier Award nomination for his performance. During the summer of 2006, he acted the title role in Titus Andronicus , at Shakespeare's Globe . Simultaneously, he made his West End directorial debut with See How They Run , a 1940s wartime farce by Philip King , preceded by

1029-594: 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

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1078-491: 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

1127-783: 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

1176-524: The BBC serial adaptation of Trollope 's The Way We Live Now (2001), as Roger Carbury; The Russian Bride (2001); Red Cap (2003–2004); Spooks (2005); ITV 's 2007 adaptation of Mansfield Park , as Sir Thomas Bertram; and the made-for-TV film Lift , directed by James Hawes , a 2007 Hartswood Films production for BBC Four , as Paul Sykes, "a constantly exasperated, highly-strung middle-aged businessman with commitments.". In 2010, he appeared in

1225-636: 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

1274-530: The ITV-1 drama The Town . In 2016, he featured as Rex Mayhew in the BBC adaptation of John le Carré 's The Night Manager . In 2017, he appeared in " Black Museum ", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror . He appeared as Inspector Bartholomew Rusk in the series Penny Dreadful . He played Grimes in a BBC adaptation of Evelyn Waugh 's Decline and Fall , alongside Jack Whitehall, Stephen Graham and David Suchet. From 2020 to 2023, Hodge played

1323-648: 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

1372-742: 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

1421-706: 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

1470-428: The episode "The Restaurant" of the third series of the BBC sitcom Outnumbered as Brick Bolenger, an American therapist who is married to Auntie Angela (played by Samantha Bond ). The character was involved in a story line of the fourth series in 2011, but never appeared on screen. In 2012, Hodge had a role in the BBC drama One Night , as well as appearing in the conspiracy thriller miniseries Secret State , and

1519-405: 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

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1568-472: 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

1617-599: 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

1666-465: 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

1715-513: The novel by George Eliot and directed by Anthony Page . In the US it aired on Masterpiece Theatre in 1994. His other TV appearances include leading roles in Behaving Badly (1989); Capital City (1989–1990); A Fatal Inversion (1992); Bliss (1995); Only Fools and Horses (1996) The Uninvited (1997); The Scold's Bridle (1998); Shockers: Dance (1999); The Law (2000);

1764-621: The occasional girlfriend late at night — I'd never sung them to anyone. Then last year I finally started playing at various venues in and around Oxford . Each time I wrote a new song I'd go down the Ex [on Cowley Road] and sing it... Then Rightback Records asked me to record them. We went into the Blue Moon Studios in Banbury for just four days. This [Cowley Road Songs] is what we came out with..." – Douglas Hodge Until 2013, Hodge

1813-474: 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

1862-611: The role of General Velementov, head of Catherine the Great's armies in The Great , alongside Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult . Doug Hodge released two albums of his own compositions: "Cowley Road Songs" in 2005, and "Nightbus" in 2009. He won the Stiles and Drewe 2012 Best New Song Award for his song 'Powercut' from "Meantime", the musical he co-wrote with Aschlin Ditta . "I've been writing songs all my life but — apart from

1911-503: 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 Douglas William Hodge (born 25 February 1960)

1960-526: 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

2009-822: 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

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2058-539: 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

2107-512: 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

2156-683: 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

2205-533: 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

2254-730: Was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role . For the National Theatre in May 1994 Hodge played the title role in Phyllida Lloyd 's Olivier Theatre staging of Shakespeare's Pericles and Al in Stephen Poliakoff 's Blinded by the Sun directed by Ron Daniels at the Cottesloe Theatre in May 1997. In 2002, Hodge played Leontes in an RSC revival of The Winter's Tale at

2303-423: 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

2352-491: 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

2401-414: Was young, his family moved to Wigmore , Gillingham , Kent . He attended Fairview Primary School and The Howard School in Rainham , Kent. He was awarded a position as student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), in London, but was not happy and left before graduating. This never affected his desire to be an actor. Hodge has acted in plays by Harold Pinter , including No Man's Land at

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