New York Drama Desk Awards To Announce Winners Online For A Season Shortened By COVID-19

New York’s 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards will announce winners on-line this 12 months, skipping the yearly gathering of theater artists and critics for the bestowal of awards. Solely Broadway, Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions that opened previous to the March 12 COVID-19 shutdown will likely be eligible.

The winners of this 12 months’s Drama Desk Awards will likely be introduced on-line Could 31. Nominations will likely be introduced on April 21.

“New York theater is caught in a second of outstanding uncertainty. Within the face of this, the mission of the Drama Desk – recognizing the hundreds of artists and craftspeople who make up our neighborhood – has by no means been extra pressing,” mentioned Charles Wright and David Barbour, Drama Desk Co-Presidents. “We’re dedicated to honoring the excellent work of this season as finest we will, with security the very best precedence.”

This 12 months’s awards will likely be introduced in honor of the lifetime of William Wolf, former Drama Desk president and longtime movie and theater critic, who died final month of issues associated to the novel coronavirus.

The group mentioned that extra particulars concerning the 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards nominations and winners bulletins will likely be decided “because the scenario permits” and introduced at a later date.

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The Drama Desk Awards ceremony is likely one of the main theater occasions of the spring awards season, and, not like the Tony Awards, embody Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway in addition to Broadway productions.