Dorian Theater Awards
GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, launched in 2009, and established its Theater Wing in 2023. Awarding performances and productions from each Broadway and Off-Broadway, go away it to the queers to combine issues up with some particular classes you received’t discover elsewhere.
This 12 months’s winners have been simply introduced, with GALECA-inspired wins within the following classes:
Excellent LGBTQ Broadway Manufacturing — Demise Turns into Her and its high-camp fashion is a logical alternative, particularly with a gap quantity known as “For the Gaze.”
LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season — Voters (together with yours actually) landed on a tie between Jonathan Groff, who’s sweeping gays and Midwestern moms off their feet in Simply in Time, whereas Pulitzer Prize winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Objective is the drama with a queer twist we didn’t know we have been craving. Each artists are have back-to-back hits, with Groff’s Tony win final season for Merrily We Roll Alongside and Jacobs-Jenkins’ Acceptable profitable Greatest Revival of a Play.
LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer — André De Shields, who appeared as Outdated Deuteronomy in CATS: “The Jellicle Ball” was acknowledged for “a lifelong dedication to creating artwork that evokes empathy, reality, and equality.
New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards
They are saying everybody’s a critic. (Have you ever been on on the Broadway subreddit or Broadway World’s message board currently?) Nonetheless, in some circles, critics’ opinions can affect the success of a present. After a riff between critics and the Pulitzer committee led to the Circle’s founding, which awarded its first Poor Plaque (named after artist Henry Varnum Poor, and never the lifetime of a struggling artist) in 1936.
Two new awards, Greatest Particular person Efficiency and Greatest Ensemble Efficiency, have been added this 12 months with a win that made our hearts flutter.
Greatest Particular person Efficiency — Andrew Scott received for his “tour de pressure” efficiency as eight completely different characters in an adaptation of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya. “As unusual as it’s in conception, in efficiency it’s the perfect I’ve seen,” wrote critic Jesse Inexperienced for the New York Times.
