Awards
Sir Matthew Bourne receives the 2016 Rosebowl for Services to the Arts
Critics’ Circle Music Awards 2019
The Music Section of the Critics’ Circle is delighted to announce the winners of our Annual Awards for 2019. The Lifetime Achievement Award is a special category, rather than an annual award, and is given here by the music section to a conductor whose career has had a...
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Whitley wins Music award
At the end of a thrilling performance of her new song cycle, Kate Whitley received the 2018 Critics' Circle Award for Emerging Talent: Composer. Her Six Charlotte Mew Settings were sung by two outstanding British artists, bass Matthew Rose and soprano Katherine...
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British Comic Judi Love to Host CC Film Awards
Presented by Dover Street Entertainment and hosted by The May Fair Hotel for a seventh year, the ceremony on Sunday, 20th January, will also be sponsored by Heaven Skincare. Britain's leading film critics today announced that actor, comic and social commentator Judi...
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Hockney dispels Shadows
On 3rd October 2018, Britain's foremost artist David Hockney received the Critics' Circle award for Distinguished Service to Art. The relaxed ceremony took place over lunch at the Chelsea Arts Club, London, a beautiful venue with access through long french windows...
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David Hockney wins critics’ circle award
Music Section presentations: Richard Farnes and Zuzana Růžičková
Over the past week, the Music Section has made presentations to two of our 2017 Critics’ Circle Award winners. After the opening night of Opera North’s new production of Un ballo in maschera, Mark Valencia presented the award for Outstanding Achievement to Richard...
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The Critics’ Circle drama awards: new Special Award for services to the theatre
The Drama section decided to set up a new special award for services to the theatre which could go to anyone who has contributed to the theatre in Britain. It is not a lifetime achievement award because they tend to celebrate a career that is either over or at its...
read moreCritics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2017: The Winners
The awards for 2017 were presented at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London on Tuesday 30 January 2018. The winners were: The Most Promising Newcomer – Shella Atim for Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic & Noel Coward Theatres, London) & John McCrea for...
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