Nicolas Roeg accepting the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film at the 32nd Critics' Circle Film Awards
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President: Tom Sutcliffe
Vice-President: Simon Tait
Hon. General Secretary: William Russell
Hon. Treasurer: Peter Cargin
Trustees: Ian Herbert, Michael Billington
The Critics’ Circle, which makes an annual award for Services to the Arts, is comprised of the five sections listed above. The Circle's aims are to promote the art of criticism, to uphold its integrity in practice, to foster and safeguard members’ professional interests, to provide opportunities to meet, and to support the advancement of the arts.
Featured articles
The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 2011
Winners declared
Jane Edwardes
24/01/2012
National Theatre is the big winner
drama
NATIONAL DANCE AWARDS 2011
Winners announced at The Place
NDA Committee
23/01/2012
The Place to be
dance
32nd London Critics' Circle Film Awards
The Artist and A Separation top the winners at BFI Southbank on 19th January 2012
Rich Cline
21/01/2012
film
Picture Gallery Five
Pictures from our 2011 Film, Dance and Drama Awards presented in January 2012
William Russell
25/01/2012
The bold, the bad and the beautiful - some of those who won Critics' Circle Awards, some of those who presented them.
history
SONDHEIM
The winner of our 24th Annual Award for Services to the Arts which will be presented at a lunch held at the Menier Chocolate Factory on March 9.
William Russell
17/11/2011
The NOT Out With the Garbage Award!
general
Mike, Meryl and other things
Views
By Dangle and Sneer
24/03/2011
Topics of the day not necessarily covered elsewhere on the site. The views are those of the authors.
general
Richard Walker: The Bigger Picture
By Corinna Lotz
17/10/2011
visual-arts
The Spanish Line
The Courtauld Gallery's current exhibition
William Russell
13/10/2011
The Spanish Line, an exhibition of some 40 drawings from the Courtauld's collection of works by Spanish artists, runs until January 15, 2012.
visual-arts
Apocalypse Then
A Victorian visionary whose work has influenced film and video
Denise Silvester-Carr
10/10/2011
The exhibition, which pays tribute to a remarkable man at Tate Britain, runs until January
visual-arts
International Association of Theatre Critics Supports Robert Sturua
A report from Tbilisi
Mark Brown
03/10/2011
The IATC joins other protesters around the world to protest against the sacking of Robert Sturua from his position as artistic director of the National Theatre of Georgia.
drama