Robert R. Blume News

The 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards were presented on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 9:00 PM, at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center, and BroadwayWorld was there for the exciting after-party!

BroadwayWorld was there as nominations for the 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced by Donna McKechnie and Marvin Hamlisch

Nominations for the 51 st Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today at The New York Friars Club by theater notables Marvin Hamlisch and Donna McKechnie, who revealed the nominees for the 2005/2006 theater season in front of a crowd of theater professionals at the press conference this morning.

Nominations for the 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards will be announced on Thursday, April 27 at the New York Friars Club

Kelli O'Hara will join Sutton Foster, John Lloyd Young, Kathleen Marshall, Casey Nicholow and Sergio Trujillo in discussing 'Dancing on Broadway' at the Drama Desk's April 6th panel

Multi-talented actor/writer Harvey Fierstein, who recently returned to his award-winning role of Edna Turnblad in the Las Vegas company of Hairspray after completing a year as Tevye in the record-breaking Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, will host The 51st Annual DRAMA DESK AWARDS on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 9:00 PM

On April 6th, Sutton Foster, John Lloyd Young, Kathleen Marshall, Casey Nicholaw and Sergio Trujillo will take part in the Drama Desk panel Dancing on Broadway

The nominations for the 51st annual Drama Desk Awards will be announced on April 27th, while the ceremony itself will be held on May 21st

The Official Drama Desk Cocktail Reception honoring this year's nominees was held on May 3. The awards ceremony takes place on Sunday, May 22.

The Official Drama Desk Cocktail Reception honoring this year's nominees was held on May 3. The awards ceremony takes place on Sunday, May 22.

Lynn Redgrave and Robert Goulet announced the nominations from the New York Friars Club and BroadwayWorld was there!

The 50th Annual Drama Desk Awards Ceremony on Sunday, May 22, hosted by Harvey Fierstein, starring as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, will reach one of its largest audiences ever since it will be seen on PBS stations across the nation.

YOU'RE IT!, The Musical That Puts You in the Spotlight, a new inter-active musical revue by Grammy-nominated composer/lyricist Earl Wilson, Jr. (Let My People Come) will open in New York at the Downstairs @ Tony's Di Napoli Restaurant in Times Square on Monday, May 2, 2005, at 7:30 PM, it was announced by producer Robert R. Blume.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Drama Desk Awards, the organization has voted to present a special award to The Public Theater, also celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2005, it was announced today by William Wolf, President of the Drama Desk, and Barbara Siegel, Chairperson of its Nominating Committee.

Harvey Fierstein, the multi award-winning comic actor currently winning rave reviews in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, will host the 50TH ANNUAL DRAMA DESK AWARDS on Sunday, May 22, 2005 at 9:00 PM, at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center.