Intimate Apparel Wins NY Drama Critics’ Circle Award

Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel was today named the winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for best play of the 2003-2004 season. Nottage will receive $1000 along with the award. Intimate Apparel had its world premiere in February 2003 at Baltimore’s Center Stage and is currently playing at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre.

The organization also awarded a special citation to Barbara Cook for her contribution to musical theater. Cook appeared earlier this season in a limited engagement of her show Barbara Cook’s Broadway, which she is currently performing in London and which she will bring back to Lincoln Center in June.

No awards were given for best musical or best foreign play this year. The selections were made at the organization’s annual voting meeting, held today at the Manhattan offices of Variety. The awards will be presented during a private cocktail reception at Sardi’s on Tuesday, May 18.