Once and Tribes Take Top Honors at Drama Desk Awards

Once and Tribes took home top honors at the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards on June 3. Brian d'Arcy James and Brooke Shields served as hosts of the ceremony at Town Hall. Performers honored at the ceremony included James Corden, Tracie Bennett, Audra McDonald and Danny Burstein. As previously announced special awards were presented to Mary Testa (Queen of the Mist), Nick Westrate (Unnatural Acts, Galileo, Love's Labor's Lost) and New Victory Theatre. Sons of the Prophet playwright Stephen Karam received the newly created Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award and the cast of Sweet and Sad (Jon DeVries, Shuler Hensley, Maryann Plunkett, Laila Robins, Jay O. Sanders and J. Smith-Cameron) earned the Outstanding Ensemble Performance Award. A full list of winners is below.

Outstanding Musical
Once

Outstanding Play
Tribes

Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Follies

Outstanding Revival of a Play
Death of a Salesman

Outstanding Actor in a Play
James Corden, One Man, Two Guvnors

Outstanding Actress in a Play
Tracie Bennett, End of the Rainbow

Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Danny Burstein, Follies

Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Audra McDonald, Porgy and Bess

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Tom Edden, One Man, Two Guvnors

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Judith Light, Other Desert Cities

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Michael McGrath, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Judy Kaye, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Outstanding Solo Performance
Cillan Murphy, Misterman

Outstanding Director of a Play
Mike Nichols, Death of a Salesman

Outstanding Director of a Musical
John Tiffany, Once

Outstanding Choreography
Christopher Gattelli, Newsies

Outstanding Music
Alan Menken, Newsies

Outstanding Lyrics
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Once

Outstanding Book of a Musical
Joe DiPietro, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Outstanding Music in a Play
Grant Olding, One Man, Two Guvnors

Outstanding Orchestrations
Martin Lowe, Once

Outstanding Revue
The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman

Outstanding Set Design
John Driscoll, Rob Howell and Paul Kieve, Ghost

Outstanding Costume Design
Gregg Barnes, Follies

Outstanding Lighting Design
Brian MacDevitt, Death of a Salesman

Outstanding Sound Design of a Musical
ACME Sound Partners, Porgy and Bess

Outstanding Sound Design of a Play
John Gromada, The Best Man

Unique Theatrical Experience
Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good)

Shows with Multiple Wins:
Once - 4
Death of a Salesman - 3
Follies - 3
One Man, Two Guvnors - 3
Nice Work If You Can Get It - 3
Newsies - 2
Porgy and Bess - 2