“Little Bear Ridge Road,” playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s Broadway debut, has heen selected as the best play of the 2025-2026 season by The New York Drama Critics Circle, which gave Best Individual Performance to Alden Ehrenreich of Becky Shaw and Best Ensemble Performance to the cast of Death of a Salesman..  No award was given for Best Musical. 

Special Citations were awarded to: Lincoln Center Theater revival of Ragtime; Wallace Shawn and André Gregory for career achievement; and Qween Jean for the costume design of Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Liberation and Saturday Church.

To learn more about the New York Drama Critics Circle history, makeup, and place in the constellation of New York theater awards, check out New York Theater Awards Calendar and Guide 2026