And the Winner is...
Theater awards season begins
May 20 with the 52nd annual
Drama Desk Awards
The arrival of spring has special
meaning to people everywhere, especially theater lovers. Springtime signals not only the end of a long winter
season, but the start of awards
season, and the nationally televised
Drama Desk Awards—the year’s first
major awards event—offers
the kind of acclaim that can
spell stardom for talented
veterans as well as newcomers to the New York stage.
The 52nd annual Drama
Desk Awards will take place
May 20 in the La Guardia
Concert Hall at Lincoln Center, with Broadway’s hottest
B illy Crystal won
a Drama Desk
award in 2005 for
his one man show,
700 Sundays.
musical star—Kristin Chenoweth—
playing host ( The Apple Tree, Wicked,
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown).
Chenoweth also starred in the last
two seasons of the acclaimed television series The West Wing.
The usually raucous Elaine Stritch
calls the Drama Desk Awards the
“classiest awards in town.” In a career
that spans 60 years, Stritch became
a legend bringing to life the works
of Noel Coward, Tennessee Williams
and Stephen Sondheim. In 2002, she
took home the Drama Desk award
for outstanding solo performance
for her riveting reminiscence of the
highs and lows, joys and sorrows
of a life in theater, Elaine Stritch at
Liberty. A Tony and an Emmy, among
other awards, soon followed. And
it’s not just Stritch for whom the
Drama Desk Awards have special
