New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award

NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS’ CIRCLE AWARD. This award was inaugurated in 1935 as a protest against the awarding of the Pulitzer Prize to Zoe Akins’ play The Old Maid. The Circle had been meeting informally since 1927 when Critic Kelcey Allen called the critics together. Helen Deutsch, press agent for Maxwell Anderson’s Winter set (one of the overlooked plays), called a meeting at the Algonquin Hotel . On October 22, 1935, the Circle adopted a constitution, and the organization stated...