Resnick, Peterson, Etc. Win CT Critics Circle Awards

According to Variety, the Connecticut Critics Circle Awards - selected by Connecticut-based theatre critics - have been announced.  A ceremony will be held at East Haddam's Goodspeed on Monday, June 4th.

Best Play was awarded to Uncle Vanya, presented by New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre, while Goodspeed Opera House's Singin' in the Rain was honored as Best Musical.  Monty Python's Spamalot, which had played Hartford's Bushnell Theater, received an award for Best Touring Production.

Hollis Resnik won Best Actress in a Musical for her turn in Long Wharf's Man of La Mancha, Jon Peterson received Best Actor in a Musical for his work in Seven Angels Theater's George M., Donna Wandrey was honored as Best Actress in a Play for her work in TheaterWorks' Murderers, and Mario Barricelli and James Lecesne tied as Best Actor in a Play - for Long Wharf's Uncle Vanya and Hartford Stage's I Am My Own Wife, respectively.

Long Wharf artistic director Gordon Edelstein won Best Director of a Play for Uncle Vanya and Rob Ruggiero received the musical counterpart of that award for TheaterWorks' Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn.

Other awards included: Scott Bradley (Best Sets, Yale Rep's production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice), Russell J. Champa (Best Lighting, Eurydice at Yale Rep), David Remedios (Best Sound, for Hartford Stage's presentation of the American Repertory Theater's No Exit), Angela Wendt (Best Costumes, for Goodspeed's Singin' in the Rain), Warren Carlyle (Best Choreography, Goodspeed's Singin' in the Rain), Ivoryton Playhouse (Best Ensemble, for A Grand Night for Singing) and Vanessa Kai (Best Debut, for Stamford Theater Works's Far East).

The Tom Killen Award was given to Yale Rep Artistic Director James Bundy.

Photo of Jon Peterson by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.