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Nominations for the 54th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this morning at the New York Friars Club by Faith Prince and Jim Dale, multi-award winning stage stars. They were joined for the announcement by William Wolf, Drama Desk President, Barbara Siegel, Chairperson of the Drama Desk Nominating Committee, Robert R. Blume, Executive Producer of the Drama Desk Awards ceremony, and Randie Levine-Miller, Director of Special Events for the Drama Desk.

Nominations for the 54th Annual Drama Desk Awards will be announced on Monday, April 27, 2009, at 9:30 AM at the New York Friars Club, 57 East 55th Street, in Manhattan. A continental breakfast will be available at 9:00 AM. Multi-award-winning stage actors Faith Prince and Jim Dale will announce the nominations in the various categories.

Go on stage and off with the best theatre show on the net, join the leads of Mary Stuart, Faith Prince goes 'under the sea' in Disney's The Little Mermaid and get ready to party at the Rock of Ages Opening- all right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com!

Go on stage and off with the best theatre show on the net, meet the talented cast of Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of The Philanthropist, and hobnob at the Opening Nights of 'EXIT THE KING' and 'THE TOXIC AVENGER: THE MUSICAL'- all right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com!

Go on stage and off with the best theatre show on the net, meet the talented men of 'WAITING FOR GODOT', and celebrate the recent Broadway opening nights of 'Irena's Vow' and 'HAIR'- all right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com!

Celebrate the excitement of 'opening night' at God of Carnage, Impressionism and Finian's Rainbow - all right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com!

Another theatre packed episode is ready, we remember the beautiful light that was Natasha Richardson, spend opening night with Blithe Spirit, rehearse with 'reasons to be pretty' and welcome West Side Story back to the Great White Way - all right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com!

Multiple Drama Desk and Tony Award winning actor/writer Harvey Fierstein will host the 54th Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony on Sunday, May 17, 2009, at 9 PM at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, it was announced by Robert R. Blume, Executive Producer of the annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony, and William Wolf, President of the Drama Desk, an organization of theater critics, writers and editors that honors excellence in all areas of New York theatre, including Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway and not-for-profit theater. This will be the fourth time in the past six years that Fierstein has hosted the Drama Desk Awards, having emceed the Awards in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Nominations for the 54th Annual Drama Desk Awards will be announced on Monday, April 27, 2009, at 9:30 AM at the New York Friars Club, 57 East 55th Street, in Manhattan. A continental breakfast will be available at 9:00 AM. Multi-award-winning stage actors Faith Prince and Jim Dale will announce the nominations in the various categories.

Broadway Beat takes you from the rehearsal studios to opening nights, including in-depth interviews with Tony Award winning stars and directors. Broadway Beat is your front row seat to all the music, all the magic, and all of the magnificent drama that is Broadway.

Tony Award-winners Philip Bosco, Jim Norton and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as well as Cheyenne Jackson, Kate Baldwin, and Jeremy Bobb will star in Finian's Rainbow, the final production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, running from March 26 - 29.

Go on stage and off with the best theatre show on the net, Remembering Horton Foote, 'BLOOD TYPE: RAGU', 'Irena's Vow' in Rehearsal and Opening Night with those fabulous 'GUYS and DOLLS' - all right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com!

The 54th Annual Drama Desk Awards will take place on Sunday, May 17, 2009, at 9 PM at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, it was announced by Robert R. Blume, Executive Producer of the annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony and telecast, and William Wolf, President of the Drama Desk, an organization of theater critics, writers and editors that honors excellence in all areas of New York theatre, including Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway and not-for-profit theater.

Another episode is ready, get set to join White Plains Performing Arts Center's production of A Little Night Music in rehearsal, meet the starry cast of Exit The King and take an inside look at the Defying Inequality benefit- all right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com!

This week the show features the starry cast of the new drama 'IMPESSIONISM' and the opening night of the recently shuttered THE STORY OF MY LIFE - all right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com!

Another busy week on stage and off with Kids Night on Broadway, Encores! MUSIC IN THE AIR, Broadway Bears and the outrageous Broadway Backwards concert - all right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com!

Spend a busy week on stage and off with Will Ferrell as he makes his Broadway debut in You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush, visit the BLITHE SPIRIT cast in rehearsal and celebrate at the 2009 Drama League Gala - all right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com!

Spend a busy week on stage and off with a night at the MTC Gala, EQUUS Daniel Radcliffe as he gets his Wall of Fame portrait unveiled at Sardi's and the cast of HAIR in rehearsal - all right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com!

Kern and Hammerstein's Music in the Air, the second Encores! production of New York City Center's 2008-09 season,will run February 5-8. The production runs for five performances at City Center.

Spend opening night with the new Broadway arrivals, The American Plan and Hedda Gabler-right here with Broadway Beat and BroadwayWorld.com! Broadway Beat, the popular weekly television program for and about the theatre world, right here on the web site. Broadway Beat is the premier, award-winning half hour television program covering theatre, music and performers.