GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ theater wing members named their favorites in New York theater for the second annual Dorian Theater Awards with their nominations for the best in Broadway and Off-Broadway for the 2023-2024 season. Like GALECA’s Dorian film and TV awards, the group’s stage honors celebrate both mainstream and LGBTQ+-themed productions.
Leading on the Broadway side with six nominations each were Stereophonic by David Adjmi, which led the recent Tony Awards nominations with a record 13, and the Maria Friedman-helmed revival of Merrily We Roll Along, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. Dorian Award have four members of the Stereophonic cast competing for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play, and three actors from Merrily We Roll Along in the running. As with their film and television Dorian Awards, performance categories for theater are gender neutral.
In Off-Broadway categories, Oh, Mary!, writer-star Cole Escola’s Broadway-bound play about Mary Todd Lincoln, ruled with five nominations. Teeth, Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs’ musical about an evangelical teen girl with hidden talents, and Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are—co-written with David Ives and adapted from two films by Luis Buñuel—each scored four nods.
For the wing’s special new accolade, LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season, GALECA members nominated writer/actor Cole Escola, composer Michael R. Jackson, director Michael Greif, along with actors Jonathan Groff, Sarah Paulson and Conrad Ricamora.
The nominees for the group’s career achievement award, LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer, are awe-inspiring multi-hyphenate André De Shields and four distinctly legendary playwrights: Charles Busch, Christopher Durang (nominated posthumously), Taylor Mac and Paula Vogel. “I think we’re all actually happy to say GALECA’s members had a daunting task of sifting through so many exciting plays and musical this season,” said Cary Wong, the group’s Off-Broadway lead. “Considering Broadway alone put up 38 productions this season, New York theater has definitely bounced back from 18 months of COVID closures. From popular adaptations like The Notebook to daring new works like Lempicka, Dorian Award voters and all theater goers had plenty to rave and dish about.”
GALECA’s Dorian Theater Awards will reveal their winners on Monday, June 3, 2024. Full list of nominees below:
Outstanding Broadway Musical
Outstanding Broadway Play
Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival
Outstanding Broadway Play Revival
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play
Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production
Outstanding Broadway Ensemble
The Broadway Showstopper Award — To a standout production number or scene
Outstanding Off-Broadway Production
Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production
Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season
LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer Award — For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
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