Robert R. Blume News

Rose Billings & the Board of Governors of The National Arts Club presented the medal of honor to legendary stage designer, Tony Walton, at their cocktail and dinner ceremony 'A Night the Shining Stars Come Out' on Sunday November 18.

NYMF honored the award-winning shows and artists, along with three young Broadway producers - Robert Ahrens, Pun Bandhu and Jennifer Maloney - at its November 4 Awards Gala at the Hudson Theatre

On August 2nd, at theatre district hangout Tony's di Napoli, Tony's DiNapoli Times Square unveiled a portrait honoring the Broadway hit Spring Awakening; the picture, by acclaimed artist Dan May, welcomed to Tony's Wall of Fame. Radio personality Valerie Smaldone hosted the event.

Winners of Drama Desk Awards for the 2006/2007 New York theater season received their engraved trophies at a cocktail reception in their honor on Tuesday, July 17 at Tony's Di Napoli Restaurant

The Town Hall's first-ever Summer Broadway Festival presented 'A Night at the Operetta,' on Monday, July 16, at 8pm

BroadwayWorld takes you into the press room and star-studded VIP reception for the 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were presented on Sunday, May 20 at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center!

China Grill New York, Jeffrey Chodorow's popular Manhattan restaurant at 60 West 53rd Street, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, will host a gala VIP reception for many of the theater world's luminaries on Sunday, May 20, 11:30 PM to 1:00 AM, immediately following the 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony held earlier in the evening at the FH LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center

Beth Leavel and James Naughton announced the nominees for the 2007 Drama Desk Awards this morning at The Friar's Club. The awards will take place on Sunday, May 20th at the F. H. LaGuardia Concert Hall.

Drama Desk Awards presenter and executive producer Robert R. Blume was a special guest speaker at the 12th Annual Conference of the Women Ambassadors Foundation, a Washington, DC, panel examining the role of imagery from Broadway and Hollywood in global diplomacy and public.

Nominations for the 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards will be announced on Thursday, April 26, 2007, at 9:45 AM at the New York Friars Club, 57 East 55th Street, in Manhattan

On Monday, March 26th, the National Arts Club hosted The St. George's Society Arts Initiative, MC'd by Tony Award-winner Jim Dale and featuring a Panel Discussion moderated by Producer Margot Astrachan, entitled 'Demystifying the Theatre Awards, The Tonys, The Drama Desk Awards, and the Lucille Lortel Awards.'

Kristin Chenoweth, the star of the Broadway musical stage who just finished her return to Broadway this season with her critically acclaimed performance in The Apple Tree, will host the 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards on Sunday, May 20, at 9:00 PM.

The 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards will be held on Sunday, May 20, in the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center,

Coyote REP, an emerging theater company, hosted their First Annual Rising Moon Gala and Fundraiser on January 19th

On Monday night at the National Arts Club, the St. George's Society of New York, the leading British charitable and social organization in the United States, founded in 1770, held its monthly Theatrical Arts event at the National Arts Club.

On January 8th, internationally acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard discussed his The Coast of Utopia trilogy with the Drama Desk at Tony DiNapoli Restaurant in New York City

Tina Maddigan, Jay Johnson and more performed at The Theatre Museum's 2006 Awards for Excellence, which were presented at the Millennium Broadway Hotel's Hudson Theatre on October 16th

Thursday night was a veritable WHO's WHO of theatre history as Donna McKechnie and her publishers hosted a book party at the National Arts Club, celebrating the release of TIME STEPS - My Musical Comedy Life.

Winners of Drama Desk Awards for the 2005/2006 New York theater season received their engraved trophies at a cocktail reception in their honor on Tuesday, August 8, at Tony's DiNapoli Restaurant

After the Drama Desk Awards on May 21st, the proud winners and nominees gathered in the press room of Lincoln Center's LaGuardia Concert Hall and posed for the BroadwayWorld camera!