Date confirmed for 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards

The Drama Desk Awards ceremony will return to The Town Hall in New York City on Sunday, May 31, 2020.

Broadway Brands and the Drama Desk announced today that The 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 31, 2020 at The Town Hall. Nominations for these awards will be revealed on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 (with the cut-off date for eligibility as April 23).

Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. The organization began presenting its awards in 1955, and it is the only critics' organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories.

Previous Drama Desk Award winners include the likes of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bernadette Peters, Cynthia Erivo, Nathan Lane, Kevin Kline, Laura Linney, Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Cynthia Nixon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, and Helen Mirren.

The 2019 winners included The Ferryman ("Outstanding Play"), The Prom ("Outstanding Musical"), The Waverly Gallery ("Outstanding Revival of a Play"), and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish ("Outstanding Revival of a Musical"). Awards also went to Elaine May, Santino Fontana, Stephanie J. Block, Celia Keenan-Bolger, André De Shields, and Ali Stroker, among others.