GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced the full list of nominees for the 2026 Dorian Theater Awards. The awards honor both Broadway and Off-Broadway productions and individuals who contribute to them, celebrating them regardless of whether they include LGBTQ+ themes.
“From the radical reimagining of our world in ‘Prince F*ggot’ to the tender themes of self-discovery in ‘Schmigadoon!,’ it has been a wonderful season of queer storytelling on New York stages,” said Sam Eckmann, co-chair of GALECA’s theater wing, in a statement. “In addition to the new LGBTQ stories that we fell in love with, we were proud to see previous Dorian Theater Award winners ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ and ‘Titaníque’ find new, fabulous life on Broadway. Our stories are connecting with wider audiences and enduring on stages both large and small.”
“Schmigadoon!” leads Broadway with nine nominations, including Outstanding Broadway Musical and awards for performers Sara Chase, Max Clayton and Ana Gasteyer. Scribe Cinco Paul is nominated in the Dorian Awards’ new categories of Outstanding Original Score of a Broadway Production and Outstanding Book of a Broadway Production.
“The Lost Boys” is close behind with eight nominations, also including Outstanding Broadway Musical and one of the awards’ new categories, Outstanding Design of a Broadway Production. Shoshana Bean, Ali Louis Bourzgui and Benjamin Pajak are nominated for their performances, while director Michael Arden is nominated in both of the Dorians’ special categories: LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season and LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer.
Also nominated for LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season are playwright Shayok Misha Chowdhury, “The Rocky Horror Show” star Luke Evans, costume designer Qween Jean, “Titaníque” star and co-creator Constantine Rousouli and “Ragtime” star Brandon Uranowitz. In the LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer category, ballroom icon and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” star Junior LaBeija, three-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, director and actor Joe Mantello and director Sam Pinkleton are also nominated.
Because “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” “Liberation” and “Titaníque” were all recognized during previous editions of the Dorian Theater Awards in their Off-Broadway iterations, only new elements of their Broadway transfers were considered eligible for consideration this year.
A full list of nominees is below.
Outstanding Broadway Musical
“The Lost Boys”
“Schmigadoon!”
“Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)”
Outstanding Broadway Play
“The Balusters”
“Giant”
“Little Bear Ridge Road”
“Punch”
Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival
“Chess”
“Ragtime”
“Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show”
Outstanding Broadway Play Revival
“Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman”
“Becky Shaw”
“Fallen Angels”
“Marjorie Prime”
“Oedipus”
Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production
“Little Bear Ridge Road”
“Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show”
“Schmigadoon!”
“The Lost Boys”
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical
Sara Chase (“Schmigadoon!”)
Kristin Chenoweth (“The Queen of Versailles”)
Nicholas Christopher (“Chess”)
Luke Evans (“The Rocky Horror Show”)
Joshua Henry (“Ragtime”)
Stephanie Hsu (“The Rocky Horror Show”)
Caissie Levy (“Ragtime”)
Sam Tutty (“Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)”)
Brandon Uranowitz (“Ragtime”)
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play
Rose Byrne (“Fallen Angels”)
Carrie Coon (“Bug”)
Will Harrison (“Punch”)
Nathan Lane (“Death of a Salesman”)
John Lithgow (“Giant”)
Lesley Manville (“Oedipus”)
Laurie Metcalf (“Little Bear Ridge Road”)
Kelli O'Hara (“Fallen Angels”)
Daniel Radcliffe (“Every Brilliant Thing”)
Mark Strong (“Oedipus”)
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical
Melissa Barrera (“Titaníque”)
Shoshana Bean (“The Lost Boys”)
Ali Louis Bourzgui (“The Lost Boys”)
Max Clayton (“Schmigadoon!”)
Rachel Dratch (“The Rocky Horror Show”)
Ana Gasteyer (“Schmigadoon!”)
Leiomy (“Cats: The Jellicle Ball”)
Ben Levi Ross (“Ragtime”)
Benjamin Pajak (“The Lost Boys”)
Layton Williams (“Titaníque”)
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play
Christopher Abbott (“Death of a Salesman”)
Marylouise Burke (“The Balusters”)
Danny Burstein (“Marjorie Prime”)
Alden Ehrenreich (“Becky Shaw”)
Linda Emond (“Becky Shaw”)
Jessica Hecht (“Dog Day Afternoon”)
Laurie Metcalf (“Death of a Salesman”)
Cynthia Nixon (“Marjorie Prime”)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (“Joe Turner's Come and Gone”)
June Squibb (“Marjorie Prime”)
Outstanding Broadway Ensemble
“Death of a Salesman”
“The Balusters”
“Ragtime”
“The Rocky Horror Show”
“Schmigadoon!”
Outstanding Original Score of a Broadway Production
“Death of a Salesman” by Caroline Shaw
“The Lost Boys” by The Rescues
“Schmigadoon!” by Cinco Paul
“The Queen of Versailles” by Stephen Schwartz
“Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” by Jim Barne & Kit Buchan
Outstanding Book of a Broadway Musical
“The Lost Boys” by David Hornsby and Chris Hoch
“Schmigadoon!” by Cinco Paul
“Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” by Jim Barne & Kit Buchan
Outstanding Script of a Broadway Play
“The Balusters” by David Lindsay-Abaire
“Giant” by Mark Rosenblatt
“Little Bear Ridge Road” by Samuel D. Hunter
“Punch” by James Graham
Outstanding Design of a Broadway Production
“Bug”
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
“The Lost Boys”
“The Rocky Horror Show”
“Schmigadoon!”
The Broadway Showstopper Award
(To a standout production number or scene)
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” — “Memory” (“Tempress” Chasity Moore)
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” — “Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat” (Emma Sofia)
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” — “Songs of the Jellicles and the Jellicle Ball” (company)
“Chess” — “Anthem” (Nicholas Christopher)
“Titaníque” — “River Deep, Mountain High” (Layton Williams)
Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical
“Beau: The Musical”
“The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse”
“Mexodus”
“Saturday Church”
“The Seat of Our Pants”
Outstanding Off-Broadway Play
“Are the Bennett Girls Ok?”
“Bowl EP”
“Cold War Choir Practice”
“Meet the Cartozians”
“Prince F*ggot”
Outstanding Off-Broadway Revival
“Bat Boy”
“Heathers”
“Oratorio for Living Things”
“Twelfth Night” (Shakespeare in the Park)
“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”
Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production
“Beau”
“Becoming Eve”
“Bowl EP”
“Prince F*ggot”
“Saturday Church”
“ta-dah!”
Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Bryson Battle (“Saturday Church”)
Quincy Tyler Bernstein (“Well, I’ll Let You Go”)
Alana Raquel Bowers (“Cold War Choir Practice”)
Will Brill (“Kramer/Fauci”)
Tommy Dorfman (“Becoming Eve”)
David Greenspan (“I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan”)
Ryan J. Haddad (“Hold Me in the Water”)
Marin Ireland (“Queens”)
John McCrea (“Prince F*ggot”)
Matt Rodin (“Beau”)
Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Caroline Aaron (“The Reservoir”)
Sierra Boggess (“Prosperous Fools”)
Justin Cooley (“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”)
K. Todd Freeman (“Prince F*ggot”)
J. Harrison Ghee (“Saturday Church”)
David Greenspan (“Prince F*ggot”)
Judy Kuhn (“The Baker’s Wife”)
McKenzie Kurtz (“Heathers”)
Casey Likes (“Heathers”)
Deirdre O’Connell (“Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.”)
Jasmine Amy Rogers (“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”)
David Turner (“Mother Russia”)
Outstanding Writing for an Off-Broadway Production
“Becoming Eve” by Eve Weinstein
“Bowl EP” by Nazareth Hassan
“Caroline” by Preston Max Allen
“Cold War Choir Practice” by Ro Reddick
“Practice” by Keenan Tyler Oliphant
“Prince F*ggot” by Jordan Tannahill
Outstanding Design for an Off-Broadway Production
“Beau”
“Bowl EP”
“Cold War Choir Practice”
“Masquerade”
“Prince F*ggot”
LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season
Michael Arden
Shayok Misha Chowdhury
Luke Evans
Qween Jean
Constantine Rousouli
Brandon Uranowitz
LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer
(For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity)
Michael Arden
Junior LaBeija
Nathan Lane
Joe Mantello
Sam Pinkleton
Broadway Productions with Multiple Nominations
“Schmigadoon!” — 9
“The Lost Boys” — 8
“The Rocky Horror Show” — 7
“Ragtime” — 6
“Death of a Salesman” — 5
“The Balusters” — 4
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” — 4
“Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” — 4
“Becky Shaw” — 3
“Chess” — 3
“Fallen Angels” — 3
“Giant” — 3
“Little Bear Ridge Road” — 3
“Oedipus” — 3
“Punch” — 3
“Titaníque” — 3
“Bug” — 2
“The Queen of Versailles” — 2
Off-Broadway Productions with Multiple Nominations
“Prince F*ggot” — 6
“Bowl EP” — 4
“Cold War Choir Practice” — 4
“Saturday Church” — 4
“Beau: The Musical” — 3
“Becoming Eve” — 3
“Heathers” — 3
“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” — 3
