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The 65th Drama Desk Awards has postponed its plan to stream its awards tonight during a presentation of Spectrum News NY1's On Stage. The organization cited “breaking news events in New York this weekend” as the reason for the postponement. The city’s boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn have seen massive disruptions…

The 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards will celebrate the life and legacy of American theater producer and director Harold "Hal" Prince (Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, among many others) with the critics organization’s newly established lifetime achievement honor. The Harold Prince Award will be bestowed annually for…

New York’s 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards will announce winners online this year, skipping the yearly gathering of theater artists and critics for the bestowal of awards. Only Broadway, Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions that opened prior to the March 12 COVID-19 shutdown will be eligible. The winners of…

The winners for the 64th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced Sunday night with Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman winning for Outstanding Play and The Prom taking home the trophy for Outstanding Musical. Other big winners for the night included The Waverly Gallery and Fidder on the Roof winning for Outstanding Revival…

Daniel Fish’s wildly re-imagined revival of Oklahoma! leads New York’s Drama Desk Awards nominations with 12, including Revival of a Musical. No big surprise there — but the head-scratcher came in the Best Play category: To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the best reviewed productions of the season and a box office smash…

Actor Michael Urie will return to host this year’s Drama Desk Awards, the Broadway, Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway theater awards bestowed by New York critics, journalists, editors and publishers. The 64th Annual Drama Desk Awards – set for Sunday, June 2 at The Town Hall in Manhattan – will mark Urie’s fourth…

EXCLUSIVE: Broadway Brands, publisher of website Broadway News and newsletter Broadway Briefing, has signed on to present this year’s Drama Desk Awards. The 64th annual event will take place on June 2 at The Town Hall in Manhattan. As it has since 2012, Joey Parnes Productions will produce the Drama Desk Awards…

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt duo Jane Krakowski and Tituss Burgess will announce the nominations for the 63rd Annual Drama Desk Awards on Thursday, April 26, the organization announced today. The awards ceremony, as previously announced, will be hosted by Michael Urie at Manhattan’s The Town Hall on Sunday, June 3. “What…

Michael Urie, TV’s former Ugly Betty actor heading to Broadway next season in Torch Song, will host the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony in June, his third consecutive time as emcee. “The Drama Desk is delighted that Michael Urie is hosting the Awards for a third time,” said Drama Desk president Charles Wright.…

The 62nd annual Drama Desk Awards were announced Sunday night, with top awards going to Come From Away for best musical and Oslo for best play. The best musical and play revival honors went to Hello, Dolly! and Jitney, respectively. The group, comprising editors, reporters and critic who cover theater in New York…

Come From Away, Jitney and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 were among the biggest winners at tonight’s 62nd annual Drama Desk Awards. Best Musical went to Come From Away, which dramatizes the true story of passengers on flights grounded by the Sept. 11 attacks converging on a small town in Newfoundland. <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/oslo/" id="auto-tag_oslo"…

The Bette Midler lovefest and a nontraditional off-Broadway staging of Eugene O’Neill’s Expressionist classic, starring Bobby Canavale, earned 10 and eight nominations, respectively, at this morning’s announcement for the 62nd Annual Drama Desk Awards. Unlike the Tony Awards, which consider only shows produced in the…