Last night, May 23, the 2011 Drama Desk Awards Ceremony took place at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan. The Book of Mormon, Anything Goes, War Horse and The Normal Heart were the night's big winners, with favorites Sutton Foster, Norbert Leo Butz, Bobby Cannavale, Frances McDormand, Laura Benanti, John Larroquette, Brian Bedford and Edie Falco taking home the evening's top performance honors. The Awards ceremony was hosted by Harvey Fierstein. BroadwayWorld was there in the winners press room, of course, and brings you celebratory coverage below!
CLICK HERE for a full list of Drama Desk winners on BroadwayWorld!
CLICK HERE to see Part 1 of the arrivals coverage!
CLICK HERE to see Part 2 of the arrivals coverage!
CLICK HERE for Opening Ceremony coverage!
This year, for the first time, a 90-minute Highlights Special of the Drama Desk Awards Ceremony will be televised nationally on OVATION, the national cable network dedicated to presenting creative arts programming to national TV audiences. The ceremony will be given two primetime broadcasts plus four other airings between June 4 and June 19, 2011.
Food for the press room was generously provided by Tony di Napoli restaurant in Times Square.
For more information on the Drama Desk, visit www.dramadesk.com.
Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi


Sleep No More

T.V. Carpio and Sleep No More

Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus

Casey Nicholaw and Daniel Radcliffe

Joel Grey, Daniel Radcliffe and George C. Wolfe

Seth Numrich accepting for War Horse

Cast of In Transit

The Normal Heart

The Normal Heart

Robert R. Blume and John Leguizamo

Cast of Rain


Sutton Foster and Bobby Cannavale

The Normal Heart

Andre Bishop

Anything Goes

Robert Lopez and Casey Nicholaw

Nevin Steinberg and Cricket S Myers of ACME Sound Partners

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