From the Special Tony Playbill:

Hello, diva lovers! Nominations for this year's Drama Desk Awards were announced earlier this week, and congratulations are in order for Bernadette Peters, Carolee Carmello and Sian Phillips, who were all nominated for Best Actress in a Musical for their work in, respectively, Annie Get Your Gun, Parade and Marlene. Those women who scored Best Featured Actress in a Musical nominations include Gretha Boston (It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues), Kristen Chenoweth (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown), Cheryl Freeman (The Civil War), Penny Fuller (A New Brain), Jane Lanier (Fosse) and Eloise Laws (It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues). The Drama Desk Awards will be held on Sunday, May 9 in the concert hall of the LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts. The awards will be hosted by one of this year's nominees, Bernadette Peters, and New York 1 News will broadcast the event live, beginning at 9 PM.

Hello, diva lovers! Nominations for this year's Drama Desk Awards were announced earlier this week, and congratulations are in order for Bernadette Peters, Carolee Carmello and Sian Phillips, who were all nominated for Best Actress in a Musical for their work in, respectively, Annie Get Your Gun, Parade and Marlene. Those women who scored Best Featured Actress in a Musical nominations include Gretha Boston (It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues), Kristen Chenoweth (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown), Cheryl Freeman (The Civil War), Penny Fuller (A New Brain), Jane Lanier (Fosse) and Eloise Laws (It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues). The Drama Desk Awards will be held on Sunday, May 9 in the concert hall of the LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts. The awards will be hosted by one of this year's nominees, Bernadette Peters, and New York 1 News will broadcast the event live, beginning at 9 PM.

Playbill.com writer Harry Haun provides the latest insight into the buzz Off-Broadway and beyond.

Playbill.com offers a behind-the-scenes look at opening night of the new Broadway play A Time to Kill.

Playbill.com offers a behind-the-scenes look at opening night of the new Broadway play A Time to Kill.

BETTY BUCKLEY
Add Camille (Marguerite Gautier) to the list of vulnerable but determined women that Betty Buckley has brought to life throughout her award-winning career. In fact, Buckley not only brings her character to life, but it is during the Tony winner's moments on stage when the Hartford Stage Company's current production of Camino Real works best. One of the least accessible of Tennessee Williams plays, Camino Real is a dark adventure set somewhere between earth and hell while intermingling characters both real and fictional: the romantic poet Lord Byron; the infamous Italian lover Casanova; Cervantes' knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha; the aforementioned Camille, the consumptive courtesan from Alexandre Dumas' La Dame aux Camelias; and several others.

BETTY BUCKLEY
Add Camille (Marguerite Gautier) to the list of vulnerable but determined women that Betty Buckley has brought to life throughout her award-winning career. In fact, Buckley not only brings her character to life, but it is during the Tony winner's moments on stage when the Hartford Stage Company's current production of Camino Real works best. One of the least accessible of Tennessee Williams plays, Camino Real is a dark adventure set somewhere between earth and hell while intermingling characters both real and fictional: the romantic poet Lord Byron; the infamous Italian lover Casanova; Cervantes' knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha; the aforementioned Camille, the consumptive courtesan from Alexandre Dumas' La Dame aux Camelias; and several others.

Hello, diva lovers! Well, I'm on vacation this week, but before I left, I was able to cobble together a few items so no one would have to suffer through diva withdrawal! Enjoy, and I'll see `ya next week!

Hello, diva lovers! Well, I'm on vacation this week, but before I left, I was able to cobble together a few items so no one would have to suffer through diva withdrawal! Enjoy, and I'll see `ya next week!

PATTI LuPONE
I've received several rave reviews from diva lovers who attended Patti LuPone's opening night last week at London's famed Donmar Warehouse. In fact, one diva fan gushed, "Most surprising of all was when Patti LuPone, singer and actress, was overwhelmed by Patti LuPone, mother and daughter, during a devastatingly performed 'My Father'/'Look Mummy, No Hands' -- there wasn't a soul in the theatre, I'm certain, who wasn't absolutely devoted to her then. I've never been more moved in the theatre."

PATTI LuPONE
I've received several rave reviews from diva lovers who attended Patti LuPone's opening night last week at London's famed Donmar Warehouse. In fact, one diva fan gushed, "Most surprising of all was when Patti LuPone, singer and actress, was overwhelmed by Patti LuPone, mother and daughter, during a devastatingly performed 'My Father'/'Look Mummy, No Hands' -- there wasn't a soul in the theatre, I'm certain, who wasn't absolutely devoted to her then. I've never been more moved in the theatre."

From the Special Tony Playbill: