Drama League Awards Announces This Year’s Special Recognition Honorees
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: New York’s Drama League has named Tony winner Andre DeShields, the theater district Drama Book Shop and Encores!
artistic director Lear deBessonet as this year’s Special Recognition Honorees. The special honors will be presented at the Drama League Awards annual luncheon on Friday, May 19.
Nominations for the 89th Annual Drama League Awards, covering the 2022-23 Broadway and Off Broadway season, will be announced on Tuesday, April 25.
DeShields, a Tony winner for Hadestown most recently seen on Broadway in Death of a Salesman, will receive the Drama League’s Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater Award for “his “outstanding work on stage as part of the musical theater community.” The Drama Book Shop, a long-running theater district book store, gathering spot and performance space that was saved from closure in 2020 when Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller, and James L.
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