This year’s 33rd Annual Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2024 will take place this month, on 25 March 2024 at @sohoplace theatre in London.

The Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards are judged by full members of the Drama section of the UK’s Critics’ Circle, who are accredited, working theatre critics. Judging of the awards is through a one-member, one-vote system.

Presenters lined up to hand out awards at the ceremony include Faith Omole and Akiya Henry, who are currently performing in the Almeida’s King Lear; Giles Terera (Hamilton, Clyde’s), who is about to star in Power of Sail at the Menier Chocolate Factory; Isabella Pappas, star of Stranger Things: The First Shadow at the Phoenix Theatre; Arthur Hughes (Shardlake); and Tracy-Ann Oberman, who is currently playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice 1936 at the Criterion Theatre.

Guests scheduled to attend the afternoon event include Andrew Scott (Vanya), Sophie Okonedo (Medea), Zadie Smith (The Wife of Willesden), Marisha Wallace (Guys & Dolls, Celebrity Big Brother), John McCrea (Everybody’s Talking about Jamie), Gethin Antony (Game of Thrones), Hammed Animashaun (Black Ops) and Patrick Vail (Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Oklahoma!).

Performances at the ceremony will include a preview of Why Am I So Single? A Big Fancy Musical, the new musical from Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, creators of SIX, coming to the Garrick Theatre in London.

The nominees for the 2024 Empty Space Peter Brook Award have also been revealed, with Soho Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, The Orange Tree Richmond, Theatre Royal Windsor and the Finborough Theatre all nominated.

The Empty Space Peter Brook Award was launched last year in partnership with critic and producer Blanche Marvin MBE, to recognise a theatre space that embodies the spirit of the late theatre director Peter Brook both in its use of space and in its relationship to its locality.

Sponsors of the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards include Nyman Libson Paul, the theatre accountants, as headline sponsors; Finitio: The Employability Experts, sponsoring the Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer; Overtures Piano Bar sponsoring the Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical; 5RB sponsoring the Best Actor award; and Marquee TV sponsoring the Best Director award.

Previous winners of the Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer include Oscar winners Eddie Redmayne, Rachel Weisz, Sam Mendes and Daniel Kaluuya.

Last year’s 2023 winners included Peter Morgan, Arthur Hughes, Patsy Ferran, Giles Terera, Lynette Linton, Tom Pye, Tyrell Williams, Lizzie Annis.

Critics’ Circle Drama Members

The list of Drama (Theatre) members of the UK’s Critics’ Circle are listed as following, as per their website:

David Adams, Samira Ahmed, Arifa Akbar, Claire Allfree, Michael Arditti, Jeremy Austin, Nick Awde, Tim Bano, Honour Bayes, Jonathan Baz, David Benedict, Raymond V Bennett, Gerald Berkowitz, Theo Bosanquet, Daisy Bowie-Sell, Clare Brennan, Mary Brennan, Georgina Brown, Mark Brown, Robert Butler, Simon Button, Jo Caird, Paul Callan, Julie Carpenter, Dominic Cavendish, David Chadderton, Ned Chaillet, James Christopher, Susannah Clapp, Nigel Cliff, Rich Cline, Liz Coggins, Clare Colvin, Mark Cook, Neil Cooper, Maddy Costa, Michael Coveney, Steve Cramer, Anthony Curtis, Nick Curtis, Michael Darvell, Robert Dawson Scott, Colin Davison, Neil Dowden, Nicholas de Jongh, Simon Edge, Jane Edwardes, Susan Elkin, John Elsom, Vera Elyashiv, Suzi Feay, Mark Fisher, Philip Fisher, Roger Foss, Karen Fricker, Lyn Gardner, Sharon Garfinkel, Thelma Good, Robert Gore-Langton, Bill Hagerty, Rachel Halliburton, Robert Hanks, Christopher Hart, Aliya Al-Hassan, Frey Kwa Hawking, Andrew Haydon, Sarah Hemming, Ian Herbert, Henry Hitchings, Alun Hood, lan Hulme, Jafar Iqbal, James Inverne, Emma John, Ian Johns, Oliver Jones, Louise Kingsley, Jeremy Kingston, Kirsty Lang, Mark Lawson, Ruth Leon, Paul Levy, Brian Logan, Catherine Love, Lizzie Loveridge, Howard Loxton, Andrzej Lukowski, Kate Maltby, Lisa Martland, Cindy Marcolina, Sam Marlowe, Patrick Marmion, Diana Damian Martin, Scott Matthewman, Dominic Maxwell, Caroline McGinn, Keith McKenna, Joyce McMillan, Fergus Morgan, Fiona Mountford, Siobhan Murphy, John Nathan, Gary Naylor, Heather Neill, Benedict Nightingale, Kevin O’Sullivan, Terri Paddock, Michael Parker, Phil Penfold, John Peter, Lucy Popescu, Lucy Powell, Libby Purves, Kieron Quirke, Julia Rank, David Roper, William Russell, Anya Ryan, Alice Saville, Adam Scott, Victoria Segal, Ian Shuttleworth, Aleks Sierz, Neil Smith, Nick Smurthwaite, Charles Spencer, Marianka Swain, Siobhan Synott, Maxie Szalwinska, Robert Tanitch, Paul Taylor, Ann Treneman, Natasha Tripney, Paul Vale, Rosemary Waugh, Tom Wicker, Holly Williams, Lyndsey Winship, Carole Woddis, Matt Wolf, Alex Wood, Toby Young.

Honorary members:

Michael Billington, Michael Coveney, Clive Hirschhorn, Herbert Kretzmer, Jack Lewis, Blanche Marvin, Garry O’Connor, Peter Roberts, John Russell Taylor.

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