ATP the big winner at this year’s virtual ‘Critters’ awards celebrating the shortened 2019/2020 Calgary theatre season – TheYYSCENE

During the time of COVID-19 these virtual awards have been introduced from the Calgary Theatre Critics’ Award Facebook Page on video on my own, Louis B. Hobson from Postmedia and Jonathan Love from CBC.

And the winners are:

Best Touring Show — Let’s Run Away a HPR/reWorks Productions co-production

Best Direction — Anita Rochon for Strangers on a Train, Vertigo Theatre

Best Supporting Performance — Tyrell Crews for Noises Off at ATP

Best Leading Performance — Seana McKenna for The Merchant of Venice for The Shakespeare Company with Hit and Myth and Calgary

Best Design — Brian Ball for the set of A Christmas Story

Best Production of a Musical — Old Stock A Refugee Love Story at ATP

Best Production of a Play — Disgraced at ATP

Honorary Calgary Theatre Critic’s Award — Joyce Doolittle and John Murrell for his or her inestimable contributions to theatre

Award recipients have been invited to add their acceptance speeches or make posts on the Facebook web page. Anyone with recollections, anecdotes of pictures of John and Joyce have been additionally inspired to share to the web page as nicely.

Caroline Russell-King is a playwright, dramaturg, and teacher. She is a member of The Playwrights Guild of Canada, the Dramatist Guild of America and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You can discover her work right here at www.carolinerussellking.com.