London Honors for Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner was chosen best actress yesterday when the 18th Critics’ Circle Theater Awards were announced in London. Ms. Turner won for her performance in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Connie Fisher, who emerged from a British television competition to win the role of Maria in a West End revival of “The Sound of Music,” was voted most promising newcomer.

Tom Stoppard’s “Rock ’n’ Roll” was named best new play, and Rufus Sewell of its cast was named best actor for his portrayal of Jan, a Czech student who leaves Cambridge for Prague in 1968 in response to the arrival of Soviet tanks.