Kathleen Turner to Host 2011 Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon

Kathleen Turner, star of the forthcoming Broadway drama High, has signed on to host the 2011 Drama League Awards ceremony and luncheon. The 77th annual event, which honors the season’s best productions and more than 50 Broadway and off-Broadway stars, will be held at noon on May 20 in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel.

As always, the Drama League Awards will feature a dais filled with nominees for the group’s Distinguished Performance Award (won last year by Alfred Molina of Red). In addition, the League's 3,000 members vote on four other competitive awards: Distinguished Production of a Play, Distinguished Production of a Musical, Distinguished Revival of a Play and Distinguished Revival of a Musical. Nominations for these five awards will be announced on April 25.

Turner earned Tony nominations for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and has appeared on Broadway in Gemini, Indiscretions and The Graduate. She begins previews as Sister Jamison Connelly in High on March 25 at the Booth Theatre.