Reverend & GALECA Announce Our 2026 Theater Award Nominations

‘SCHMIGADOON!’ Leads LGBTQ Critics’ 4th Annual Dorian Theater Awards Nominations

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ Theater Wing members (who include Reverend) announced their favorites in New York theater for the fourth annual Dorian Theater Awards on May 13th. These awards celebrate the best in Broadway and Off-Broadway for the 2025-2026 season. Like GALECA’s annual Dorian film and TV awards, the group's stage honors celebrate both mainstream and LGBTQ+-themed productions. “From the radical reimaging of our world in Prince Faggot, to the tender themes of self-discovery in Schmigadoon!, it has been a wonderful season of queer storytelling on New York stages,” says GALECA’s theater wing co-chair Sam Eckmann. “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! earned nine nominations, the most nominations of any production. The new Broadway musical is adapted from the Apple TV series of the same name, which pays loving homage to golden age musicals. In addition to bids for Outstanding Broadway Musical and Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production, show creator Cinco Paul is a double nominee in the Dorian Theater Awards’ new categories: Outstanding Original Score of a Broadway Production and Outstanding Book of a Broadway Musical. Performers Sara Chase, Max Clayton and Ana Gasteyer are also nominated. Trailing just behind Schmigadoon! is the vampire saga The Lost Boys. The epic staging earned eight nominations. This includes a nomination in the new Outstanding Design of a Broadway Production category, as well as three nominations in the Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical category, for actors Shoshana Bean, Ali Louis Bourzgui and Benjamin Pajak. The Lost Boys director Michael Arden is a double nominee in the group’s two special categories: LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season and LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer. The other LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season nominees include Obie-winning playwright Shayok Misha Chowdhury, The Rocky Horror Show star Luke Evans, trailblazing costume design Qween Jean, Titaníque co-creator and actor Constantine Rousouli, and Ragtime leading man Brandon Uranowitz. The nominees for the group’s career achievement award, LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer, include Arden; ballroom icon, Junior LaBeija, currently making his Broadway debut in Cats: The Jellicle Ball; three-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane; director and actor Joe Mantello; and the  irreverent veteran director Sam Pinkleton. In the group’s Off-Broadway categories, Prince Faggot dominated. The radical new play from Jordan Tannahill earned six nominations, with the unique distinction of being nominated in every category for which it was eligible. This includes Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production, Outstanding Writing for an Off-Broadway Production for Tannahill, Outstanding Design of an Off-Broadway Production, and performance nominations for actors John McCrea, K. Todd Freeman and David Greenspan.  Winners of the 2026 Dorian Theater Awards will be announced on Monday, June 1, 2026.     Full list of 2026 Dorian Theater Awards nominees: 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, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show Joshua Henry, Ragtime Stephanie Hsu, Richard O’Brien’s 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, Arthur Miller’s 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, Richard O’Brien’s 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, Arthur Miller’s 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, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman Cynthia Nixon, Marjorie Prime Ruben Santiago-Hudson, August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone June Squibb, Marjorie Prime Outstanding Broadway Ensemble Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman The Balusters  Ragtime  Richard O’Brien’s 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 Richard O’Brien’s 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 Faggot  Outstanding Off-Broadway Revival Bat Boy: The Musical Heathers, The Musical Oratorio for Living Things Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production Beau: The Musical Becoming Eve Bowl EP Prince Faggot  Saturday Church ta-da! Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production Bryson Battle, Saturday Church Quincy Tyler Bernstine, 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 Faggot Matt Rodin, Beau: The Musical 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 Faggot  J. Harrison Ghee, Saturday Church David Greenspan, Prince Faggot  Judy Kuhn, The Baker’s Wife McKenzie Kurtz, Heathers, The Musical Casey Likes, Heathers, The Musical 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 Emil Weinstein Bowl EP by Nazareth Hassan Caroline by Preston Max Allen Cold War Choir Practice by Ro Reddick Practice by Nazareth Hassan Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill Outstanding Design for an Off-Broadway Production  Beau: The Musical Bowl EP Cold War Choir Practice Masquerade Prince Faggot 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 equit Michael Arden Junior LaBeija Nathan Lane Joe Mantello Sam Pinkleton