Now a Warning?! ‘Death Becomes Her’ Leads GALECA’s Third Annual Dorian Theater Awards

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.

Full list of 2025 Dorian Theater Awards nominees:

Death Becomes Her

Dead Outlaw

Just in Time

Maybe Happy Ending

Operation Mincemeat

Real Women Have Curves

English

The Hills of California

John Proctor is the Villain

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Purpose

Floyd Collins

Gypsy

Pirates! The Penzance Musical

Sunset Blvd.

Eureka Day

Our Town

Romeo + Juliet

Yellow Face

Cult of Love

Death Becomes Her

Purpose

Redwood

SMASH

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

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

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

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

Cult of Love

Death Becomes Her

John Proctor is the Villain

Real Women Have Curves

Sunset Blvd.

— 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

Grangeville

Liberation

Vanya

Wine in the Wilderness

Cats: The Jellicle Ball

DRAG: The Musical

Grangeville

The Fires

We Had a World

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

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” 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

Michael Arden

Tommy Dorfman

Jonathan Groff

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Jinkx Monsoon

— 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.