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Photo Coverage: 2009 Drama Desk Awards - Presentation 2

By: May. 18, 2009
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The 54th Annual Drama Desk Awards were held tonight, Sunday, May 17, 2009 in the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. Drama Desk nominees received their official Nomination Certificates at a cocktail reception on Friday, May 1st at Il Bastardo restaurant, 191 Seventh Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets).

Multiple Drama Desk and Tony Award winning actor/writer Harvey Fierstein was host for the 54th Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony. BroadwayWorld's cameras were there for the award celebration!

The 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 between Broadway, Off- Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories.

The organization hosts panels throughout the year, to which the public is invited, to promote understanding and appreciation of the professional theater. In addition to honoring creative artists and stage productions in multiple categories, the Drama Desk annually presents scholarships to two worthy seniors in the Drama Department of the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts who are planning careers in the theater.

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Carson Kressley

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Carson Kressley

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Carson Kressley

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Peter Darling

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Gregory Jbara

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Gregory Jbara

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Gregory Jbara and Stockard Channing

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Gregory Jbara

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Gregory Jbara

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Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley

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Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley

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John Lithgow

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John Lithgow

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John Lithgow

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John Lithgow

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Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury and Jane Fonda

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Angela Lansbury and Jane Fonda

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Angela Lansbury and Jane Fonda

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Angela Lansbury and Jane Fonda

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Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury

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Audra McDonald

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Audra McDonald

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Audra McDonald

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Janet McTeer and Jim Dale

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Janet McTeer

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Janet McTeer

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Neil Pepe

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Michael Rupert

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Tom Wopat

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Tom Wopat

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Tom Wopat

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Tom Wopat

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Geoffrey Rush

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Geoffrey Rush and Jim Dale

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Geoffrey Rush

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Geoffrey Rush

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Pablo Schreiber

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Pablo Schreiber

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Pablo Schreiber and Jane Fonda

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Pablo Schreiber and Jane Fonda

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Pablo Schreiber and Jane Fonda

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Pablo Schreiber

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Pablo Schreiber and Jane Fonda

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Rex Reed

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Rex Reed

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Rex Reed

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Liza Minnelli

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Liza Minnelli

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Liza Minnelli

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Liza Minnelli

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Liza Minnelli

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Liza Minnelli

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Liza Minnelli

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