Tuesday, February 6, 2024

B'way Update: Drama Desk Sets Dates for Awards

The 68th Drama Desk Awards will be presented on Mon. June 10 it was announced by DD Co-Presidents Charles Wright and David Barbour. Nominations will be announced on April 29 (the day before the Tony nominations come out on April 30). Details and venues will be announced in the coming months. Productions must have opened by April 25. The DDs are the only NY-based theater awards to consider Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions in each of its multiple categories.

As was the case last year, the performing categories will be gender-neutral with twice as many candidates as the former gendered categories. Voters, the Drama Desk membership composed of about 100 NY-based theater critics, editors and journalists, will vote for two nominees and there will be two winners in each category. 

The ceremony will be produced by Staci Levine, as she did last year. At the 2023 ceremony, the winners were announced in advance.

The 2023-2024 Drama Desk Nominating Committee is composed of: Martha Wade Steketee (Chair; freelance: UrbanExcavations.com), Linda Armstrong (New York Amsterdam News), Daniel Dinero (Theater Is Easy), Peter Filichia (Broadway Radio), Kenji Fujishima (freelance: Theatermania), Margaret Hall (Playbill), and Charles Wright, ex-officio.

2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway Schedule and Beyond
Winter 2023-24
Feb. 6--The Connector (MCC)
Feb. 8--Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy (Vineyard Theater)
Feb. 8--Oh, Mary (Lortel)
Feb. 9--Where Women Go (HERE)
Feb. 11--Hamlet (Solo version with Eddie Izzard) (Greenwich House)
Feb. 13--The Apiary (Second Stage/Tony Kiser Theater)
Feb. 14--I Love You So Much I Could Die (NYTW)
Feb. 19--Five: The Musical Parody (Theater 555)
Feb. 21--Jelly's Last Jam (Encores/City Center)
Feb. 22--The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers (New World Stages)
Feb. 22--A Sign of the Times (New World Stages)
Feb. 22--Sunset Baby (Signature Theater)
Feb. 25--The Seven Year Disappear (The New Group/Signature Center)
Feb. 26--Pericles (CSC)
Feb. 27--The Ally (Public)
Feb. 28--Brooklyn Laundry (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Feb. 29--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)

Spring 2024
March 2--Illinoise (Park Ave. Armory)
March 7--Tuesdays with Morrie (Sea Dog Theater)
March 10--Dead Outlaw (Audible/Minetta Lane)
March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
March 12--My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Lyceum)
March 12--Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)
March 13--The Effect (The Shed/Griffin Theater)
March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)
March 14--Ibsen's Ghost (Primary Stages/59E59)
March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)
March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)
March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)
March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)
April 1--Brynolf & Ljung in Stalker (New World Stages)
April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)
April 2--Fish (Keen Co./Working Theater/Theater Four) 
April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)
April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)
April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)
April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)
April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)
April 16--Sally & Tom (Public Theater)
April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)
April 18--Suffs (Music Box)
April 19--Stereophonic (Golden)
April 20--Hell's Kitchen (Shubert)
April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)
April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)
April 22--Patriots (Barrymore)
April 22--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced
April 22--Drama League nominations announced (NY Library for the Performing Arts)
April 23--Mary Jane (MTC/Friedman) 
April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)
April 25--The Great Gatsby (Broadway)
April 26--Chita Rivera Award nominations announced
April 29--Drama Desk Award nominations announced
April 30--Tony Nominations Announced
April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)
April--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)
May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)
May 13--Outer Critics Circle winners announced
May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)
May 20--Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)
May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony 

Summer 2024
June 5--Home (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
June 10--Drama Desk Awards
June 12--The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)
June 12--Titanic (Encores/City Center)
June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)
June--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)
TBA--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)

2024
Sunset Boulevard

Fall 2024
The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)
Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)

Winter 2024-25
English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

2024-25
Our Town
Smash
Tammy Faye

Spring 2025
The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)

Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Great Gatsby; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; What a Wonderful World; Working Girl.

2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:
New Plays:

The Cottage
Grey House
I Need That
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Mother Play
Patriots
Prayer for the French Republic
The Shark Is Broken
Stereophonic

New Musicals:
Back to the Future
Days of Wine and Roses
The Great Gatsby
Harmony
The Heart of Rock and Roll
Hell's Kitchen
How to Dance in Ohio
Lempicka
The Notebook
Once Upon a One More Time
The Outsiders
Suffs
Water for Elephants

Play Revivals:
Appropriate
Doubt: A Parable
An Enemy of the People
Mary Jane
Purlie Victorious
Uncle Vanya

Musical Revivals:
Cabaret
Gutenberg! The Musical
Here Lies Love
Merrily We Roll Along
Monty Python's Spamalot
The Who's Tommy
The Wiz

Solos/Specialties:
Alex Edelman: Just for Us
Melissa Etheridge: My Window
My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)

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