Death Becomes Her (c) Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
New York, N.Y. (May 13, 2025): GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ theater wing members named their favorites in New York theater for the third annual Dorian Theater Awards. These awards celebrate the best in Broadway and Off-Broadway for the 2024-2025 season. Like GALECA’s Dorian film and TV awards, the group's stage honors celebrate both mainstream and LGBTQ+-themed productions.
Leading the Broadway categories with seven nominations: Death Becomes Her, the stage adaptation of the cult classic film, directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. In addition to nominations for Outstanding Broadway Musical and Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Musical, actors Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, and Christopher Sieber all compete. The production number “For the Gaze,” penned by composers Noel Carey and Julia Matison is nominated for The Broadway Showstopper Award.
Three productions trail just behind Death Becomes Her with six nominations apiece: John Proctor is the Villain, Purpose and Sunset Blvd. All of these productions earned multiple acting nominations. Sadie Sink, Fina Strazza, and Amalia Yoo are nominated for John Proctor is the Villain. Jon Michael Hill, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Alana Arenas, and Kara Young are nominated for Purpose. Nicole Scherzinger, Tom Francis, and David Thaxton are nominated for Sunset Blvd.
In the Off-Broadway categories, Cats: The Jellicle Ball is the most nominated production, with a total of five. This includes acting nominations for Andre De Shields, Sydney James Harcourt, and ballroom icon “Tempress” Chastity Moore. Other productions with multiple nominations include DRAG: The Musical, including RuPaul’s Drag Race alums Alaska Thunderfuck and Jujubee (another Drag Race alum, Jinkx Monsoon, was nominated for three awards including Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical for Pirates! The Penzance Musical), and Manhattan Theatre Club’s We Had a World by Joshua Harmon which was nominated for Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway as well as performance nominations for Joanna Gleason and Jeanine Serralles.
The nominees for the group’s career achievement award, LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer, are performer Andre De Shields, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, drag artist Jinkx Monsoon, actor Andrew Scott, costume designer Paul Tazewell, and director George C. Wolfe. GALECA will once again help kick off Pride Month by announcing the winners of the year's Dorian Theater Awards on Monday, June 2, 2025.
The 2024-25 Dorian Theater Awards Nominations
The Hills of California (c) Joan Marcus
Outstanding Broadway Play
English
The Hills of California
John Proctor is the Villain
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Purpose
Outstanding Broadway Play Revival
Eureka Day
Our Town
Romeo + Juliet
Yellow Face
Outstanding Broadway Musical
Death Becomes Her
Dead Outlaw
Just in Time
Maybe Happy Ending
Operation Mincemeat
Real Women Have Curves
Pirates! A Penzance Musical (c) Joan Marcus
Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Sunset Blvd.
Redwood (c) Matthew Murphy
Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production
Cult of Love
Death Becomes Her
Purpose
Redwood
SMASH
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play
Kit Connor, Romeo + Juliet
Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California
Mia Farrow, The Roommate
Daniel Dae Kim, Yellow Face
Sydney Lemmon, JOB
Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Jon Michael Hill, Purpose
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose
Sadie Sink, John Proctor is the Villain
Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray
John Proctor is the Villain (c) Julieta Cervantes
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play
Alana Arenas, Purpose
Tala Ashe, English
Molly Bernard, Cult of Love
Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day
Francis Jue, Yellow Face
Marjan Neshat, English
Bob Odenkirk, Glengarry Glen Ross
Zachary Quinto, Cult of Love
Fina Strazza, John Proctor is the Villain
Amalia Yoo, John Proctor is the Villain
Kara Young, Purpose
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical
Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending
Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw
Tom Francis, Sunset Blvd.
Jonathan Groff, Just in Time
Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her
Audra McDonald, Gypsy
Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical
Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Blvd.
Helen J. Shen, Maybe Happy Ending
Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends (c) Matthew Murphy
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical
Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club
Jeb Brown, Dead Outlaw
Gracie Lawrence, Just in Time
Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves
Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat
Jinkx Monsoon, Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Lea Salonga, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends
Christopher Sieber, Death Becomes Her
Taylor Trensch, Floyd Collins
David Thaxton, Sunset Blvd.
Michael Urie, Once Upon a Mattress
Joy Woods, Gypsy
Outstanding Broadway Ensemble
Cult of Love
Death Becomes Her
John Proctor is the Villain
Real Women Have Curves
Sunset Blvd.
The Broadway Showstopper Award
— To a standout production number or scene
Death Becomes Her - “For the Gaze”
Gypsy - “Rose’s Turn”
John Proctor Is the Villain - “Green Light”
Maybe Happy Ending - “Chasing Fireflies”
Sunset Blvd. - “Sunset Boulevard”
Cats: The Jellicle Ball (c) Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
Outstanding Off-Broadway Production
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Grangeville
Liberation
Vanya
Wine in the Wilderness
Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
DRAG: The Musical
Grangeville
The Fires
We Had a World
DRAG: The Musical (c) Matthew Murphy
Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Patsy Ferran, A Streetcar Named Desire
Susannah Flood, Liberation
Brandon Flynn, Kowalski
Joanna Gleason, We Had a World
Marla Mindelle, The Big Gay Jamboree
Paul Mescal, A Streetcar Named Desire
Andrew Scott, Vanya
Paul Sparks, Grangeville
Alaska Thunderfuck, DRAG: The Musical
Olivia Washington, Wine in the Wilderness
Hendrik Ibsen's Ghosts (c) Jeremy Daniel
Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Betsy Aidem, Liberation
Billy Crudup, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts
Andre De Shields, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Drew Elhamalawy, We Live in Cairo
Sydney James Harcourt, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Jujubee, DRAG: The Musical
Ahmad Kamal, SUMO
Julia Lester, All Nighter
Paris Nix, The Big Gay Jamboree
Jeanine Serralles, We Had a World
Kyra Sedgwick, All of Me
“Tempress” Chasity Moore, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Jenny Lee Stern, Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole A Song
Jason Veasey, The Fires
Natalie Walker, The Big Gay Jamboree
LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season
Michael Arden
Tommy Dorfman
Jonathan Groff
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Jinkx Monsoon
Vanya (c) Julieta Cerventas
LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer
— For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
Andre De Shields
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Jinkx Monsoon
Andrew Scott
Paul Tazewell
George C. Wolfe
Productions With Multiple Nominations
Death Becomes Her - 7
John Proctor is the Villain - 6
Purpose - 6
Sunset Blvd. - 6
Cats: The Jellicle Ball - 5
Cult of Love - 4
Gypsy - 4
Maybe Happy Ending - 4
The Big Gay Jamboree - 3
Drag: The Musical - 3
English - 3
Dead Outlaw - 3
Grangeville - 3
Just in Time - 3
Liberation - 3
Real Women Have Curves - 3
We Had a World - 3
Yellow Face - 3
Eureka Day - 2
The Fires - 2
Floyd Collins - 2
The Hills of California - 2
Operation Mincemeat - 2
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 2
Pirates! The Penzance Musical - 2
A Streetcar Named Desire - 2
Vanya - 2
Wine in the Wilderness - 2
About GALECA
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and its Dorian Awards honor the best in film, television, and, under its theater wing, Broadway and Off-Broadway. More than 500 members strong, GALECA reminds society that the world values the informed Q+ eye on everything entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access, and respect for entertainment journalists, especially the underrepresented.
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