As previously reported, the winners of the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards will be announced on NY1’s On Stage May 31 at 7:30 PM ET. The awards special, held in lieu of a traditional ceremony due to the ongoing pandemic, will also stream on NY1.com and DramaDeskAwards.com.
Founded in 1955, the Drama Desk Awards are voted on and bestowed by theatre critics, journalists, editors, publishers, and broadcasters covering theatre and recognize work from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
In honor of the upcoming awards, Playbill looks back at the last 10 years of Drama Desk Award-winning productions.
Red, 2010
Johan Persson
J. Bernard Calloway and Montego Glover in Memphis.
Joan Marcus
A View From the Bridge, 2010
Photo by Joan Marcus
La Cage Aux Folles, 2010
Joan Marcus
War Horse, 2011
Nikki M. James, Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad, and the cast of The Book of Mormon
Joan Marcus
The Normal Heart, 2011
Joan Marcus
Anything Goes, 2011
Tribes, 2012
Photo by Gregory Costanzo
Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti in Once
Philip Seymour Hoffman in the 2012 Broadway revival Death of a Salesman.
Bernadette Peters in Follies, 2011
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, 2013
Carol Rosegg
Matilda The Musical, 2013
Amy Morton and Tracy Letts in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Michael Brosilow
Pippin, 2013
Joan Marcus
Robert Petkoff and Bryan Cranston in All the Way.
Lisa O'Hare, Bryce Pinkham, and Lauren Worsham
Samuel Barnett and Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night.
Joan Marcus
Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Joan Marcus
Alex Sharp and cast in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Joan Marcus
Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast of Hamilton
Joan Marcus
The Elephant Man, 2015
Joan Marcus
The King and I, 2015
Paul Kolnik
Reed Birney, Jayne Houdyshell, Arian Moayed, Sarah Steele and Cassie Beck in the Broadway production of The Humans
Brigitte Lacombe
Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, 2016
Julieta Cervantes
Mark Strong and company in A View From the Bridge
Jan Versweyveld
Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi in She Loves Me
Joan Marcus
Daniel Oreskes, Michael Aronov, and Anthony Azizi (foreground) with Daniel Jenkins and Jeb Kreager (background)
T. Charles Erickson
The original cast of Come From Away
Matthew Murphy
Michael Potts, John Douglas Thompson, Anthony Chisholm, Keith Randolph Smith, and André Holland
Joan Marcus
Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly!
Julieta Cervantes
Admissions, 2018
Jeremy Daniel
The cast of SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical.
Joan Marcus
Beth Malone and Andrew Garfield
Brinkhoff-Moegenburg
Lauren Ambrose
Joan Marcus
Paddy Considine and company
Joan Marcus
Cast of The Prom
Deen van Meer
Elaine May
Fiddler on the Roof, 2019
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