Supporting Actress, Drama Barbara Chisholm, Hamlet Marlow Moore, Once Upon a Mattress/ Really Rosieĭavid Stahl, The Glass Menagerie/ Richard III/ The SeagullĪctor, Musical Tim Blackwood, The Will Rogers FolliesĪndrew Rannells, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Keri Safran, As You Like It/ Changes of HeartĪctress, Musical Jill Blackwood, The Gifts of the Magi Scott Thompson and Richard Byron, The Sound of MusicĪctress, Drama Lisa Bansavage, Master ClassĪctress, Comedy Emily Abrams, The London Cuckolds Jason Neulander, Fugitive Pieces/Tilt Angelĭirector, Musical Kevin Archambault, Once Upon a MattressĪmparo Garcia Crow, Landscape of the Bodyĭave Steakley, Hedwig and the Angry Inch/ Jelly's Last Jam/The World Goes Round The World Goes Round, Zachary Scott Theatre Centerĭirector, Drama J. The Sound of Music, Austin Musical Theatre Landscape of the Body, UT Department of Theatre & Dance Jelly's Last Jam, Zachary Scott Theatre Center Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Zachary Scott Theatre Center Production, Musical Anna Bella Eema, Refraction Arts Project/ Physical Plant Theater The Isosceles Love Triangle, Austin Commedia Society Production, Comedy Big Love, Rude Mechanicals Shopping and Fucking, Vortex Repertory Company The Medea Stories, Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. The Laramie Project, Zachary Scott Theatre Center Production, Drama The Dinosaur Within, State Theater Companyįugitive Pieces, Salvage Vanguard Theater As always, admission is free.ĭavid Mark Cohen New Play Award Anna Bella Eema, Lisa D'Amour The initial inductees into the Hall of Fame, which will include artists, administrators, and patrons from the areas of dance, classical music, theatre, visual art, and comedy, will be announced during the presentation of the awards in a ceremony - an exceedingly informal ceremony, as always - Monday, June 3, 7pm, at a location to be announced. This year marks the 10th time local arts critics have teamed up to honor achievements on the local cultural scene, and the Critics Table will mark the occasion by founding the Austin Arts Hall of Fame. Contributing nominations for the 2001-02 season - which ended April 30 - were Austin American-Statesman staff reporters Michael Barnes and Jeanne Claire van Ryzin (arts), and freelance writers Jamie Smith Cantara (theatre), Sondra Lomax (dance), David Mead (music), and Moira Muldoon (theatre), and Austin Chronicle writers Rob Curran (theatre), Robi Polgar (music and theatre), and yours truly.

As the informal affiliation of local arts writers gathered to put together nominations for the 2001-02 Critics Table Awards, they found so much exceptional work they wished to recognize, they opted to expand the size of the categories to include up to 10 nominees.

That essentially describes the reaction of the Austin Critics Table to the last year in the arts. We came, we saw, we liked an awful lot of it.

2001-02 Critics Table Award nominee Jason Liebrecht in El Paraiso, recipient of 13 nominations

The Dark Before Dawn by Laurie Stevens