'Utopia' Wins Big at Drama Desks

May 21, 03:07 PM

Current Headlines: Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia won seven honors, including outstanding drama, at the 2006-07 Drama Desk Awards at Lincoln Center in New York.

Spring Awakening, the Duncan Sheik-Steve Sater rock musical adapted from an 1891 Frank Wedekind play, won four awards, including outstanding musical during Sunday's presentation, the organization said in a news release.

Named outstanding revival was Company, the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth musical that won a total of three prizes. R. C. Sherriff's 1929 play Journey's End, set in World War I, was named outstanding revival of a play as one of its three honors.

Directing honors for a play and a musical went to Jack O'Brien for The Coast of Utopia and Michael Mayer for Spring Awakening, respectively.

Frank Langella of Frost/Nixon and Eve Best of A Moon for the Misbegotten were named best actor and actress in a play. On the musical side, actresses Audra McDonald of 110 in the Shade and Donna Murphy of LoveMusik tied for the top honor. Raul Esparza of Company was named outstanding actor in a musical.