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GALECA Announces 2025 Dorian Theater Award Winners

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced the winners of its 3rd annual Dorian Theater Awards honoring the best of Broadway and off-Broadway, mainstream to LGBTQ, for the 2024-2025 season.

Full disclosure – I’m a proud, longtime member of GALECA.

From GALECA theater wing co-chair Sam Eckmann:

“This Pride month, I’m feeling extra proud of the queer journalists of our theater wing, who have uplifted delightfully bold work with this year’s awards.”

“Revivals like Cats: The Jellicle Ball and Sunset Blvd. dared to excavate well-worn material to find new meanings. New work like Maybe Happy Ending and John Proctor is the Villain reached into our souls with a striking sense of poignancy. A hearty congratulations to all of this year’s winners.”

Below is the complete list of winners for the 2025 Dorian Theater Awards (winners bolded):

Outstanding Broadway Musical Death Becomes Her Dead Outlaw Just in Time Maybe Happy Ending Operation Mincemeat Real Women Have Curves

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 Revival Floyd Collins Gypsy Pirates! The Penzance Musical Sunset Blvd.

Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production Cult of Love Death Becomes Her Purpose Redwood SMASH

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

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

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 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 Broadway Ensemble Cult of Love Death Becomes Her John Proctor is the Villain – Sadie Sink, Nihar Duvvuri, Gabriel Ebert, Molly Griggs, Maggie Kuntz, Hagan Oliveras, Morgan Scott, Fina Strazza, Amalia Yoo 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” (TIE) John Proctor Is the Villain – “Green Light” Maybe Happy Ending – “Chasing Fireflies” Sunset Blvd. – “Sunset Boulevard” (TIE)

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

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

Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production Betsy Aidem, Liberation Billy Crudup, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts André 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” Chastity 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 Jonathan Groff (TIE) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (TIE)

LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer — For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity André De Shields

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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.

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