“Cabaret” Takes Top Honors At Critics Circle Theatre Awards: Jessie Buckley, Ben Daniels, Cash Jumbo Win Acting Prizes
deadline.comCabaret’s London stage revival has triumphed at the 31st Annual Critics Circle Theatre Awards, taking home three of this year’s top honors.Rebecca Frecknall’s acclaimed new production of the 1966 musical won the award for Best Director, with Oscar-nominated Jessie Buckley earning Best Actress for her performance as Sally Bowles.
Tom Scutt was also recognized for his striking stage design.Complete list of winners below. The biggest upset of the event came with Cabaret losing out on the biggest award of the night, that of Best Musical, which went instead to Rupert Goold’s Spring Awakening.
The latter also brought Start Thompson a joint win for the Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer, along with Samuel Creasy, recognized for The Book of Dust – La Bell Sauvage.Cush Jumbo won the Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for her eponymous role in Hamlet, while Ben Daniels was named Best Actor for his role of Ned Weeks in Dominic Cooke’s revival of The Normal Heart.
James Graham’s drama Best of Enemies, documenting the television war of words conducted between political commentators William F Buckley Jr and Gore Vidal, won the Michael Billington award for Best New Play.The in-person ceremony marked the return of the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards after the pandemic forced the organisation to skip a year’s ceremony for the first time in its history.
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