Drammy Awards! We have a place! We have a date! Mark your calendars now!

Yes, dear Portland theatre people! We have a place! The 2015 Drammy Awards Celebration will be held in the Newmark theatre (pictured above!). And what is more… We have a date! The 2015 Drammy Awards Celebration will take place on Monday, June 29, 2015! Mark your calendars NOW! This is going to be FANTASTIC! We […]

Drammy Awards: First Period Plays of the 2014/2015 Drammy Season

Can you believe we are at the end of the First Period of shows in our 2014-2015 Drammy season already? We had a highly informative and fascinating meeting last Monday night, 22 September, once again in the comfortable offices of Tonkon Torp (thank you, TT! We are so grateful). I know I seem […]

Drammy Awards FINALISTS: Check-in instructions and MORE! PLEASE READ!

WE ARE JUST A WEEK AWAY! Are you as excited as I am?? 1. FINALISTS! PLEASE check in early on Monday, June 9, at the Crystal Ballroom, to receive your lovely Finalists’ certificates AND to let us know you have arrived. PLEASE CHECK IN BETWEEN 6.30 and 6.45 PM at the latest. There will be a desk for […]

Drammy Tables SOLD OUT! Drammy season ends MAY 18, 2014. Read all about it here!

TWO IMPORTANT NEWS ITEMS! Drammy Tables SOLD OUT Drammy Season ends May 18 1. DRAMMY TABLES ARE ALREADY SOLD OUT! Yes, by the time yesterday’s mail arrived (Friday April 11) we had SOLD all our tables for the Drammy Awards ceremony on Monday, June 9, 2014, well before the first deadline of April 15, […]

Drammy Awards, Another Wonderful Puppet, and a New Meeting

Just when you think there can be no more of those wonderful early Drammy Awards puppets (really Willy Awards) out there, along comes another one. Oh, how I wish we still had them! Marilyn Stacey has sent along these fine pictures of hers, seen first in full, and then in its glorious details. […]

We are about to be serious…but meanwhile, there are cookies and pies!

The excitement here at Drammy Towers today is palpable! This evening sees the first meeting of our annual five (before Memorial Day) in which we gather to discuss this season’s shows that have already closed (please remember that “this season” for us dates back to mid-May), and to record our early nominations. Tomorrow or the […]

First Drammy Committee meeting…imminent! And we are going rogue!

We are pretty excited over here at Drammy Towers. Our first committee meeting of the new season is coming up on Monday, 23 September, and we can’t wait to discuss the thirty or so productions that are already on our books from this mid-May to mid-September period. For those of you who don’t realize this, […]

34 years and counting. And counting? Drammys on the horns of a dilemma!

So here we are, with the exciting new season well and truly upon us, and our first Drammy committee meeting approaching apace (we meet on Monday, September 23, in the wonderful conference room made available to us by the law firm of Tonkon Torp LLP…we thank them from the bottom of our hearts!). We will […]