GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, announced the winners of its 2026 Dorian Theater Awards on Monday. This is the final New York awards body to unveil their winners before the Tony Awards, and the list may hold some clues as to which productions will be marching to the podium at Radio City Music Hall on June 7.
Schmigadoon! claimed the Outstanding Broadway Musical prize, along with the Book of a Musical award for Cinco Paul. The show is ahead in Gold Derby’s combined odds for the corresponding categories at the Tony Awards. The show has now scooped up Best Musical awards from the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Dorian Awards, making it the de facto front-runner ahead of Sunday’s Tony ceremony.
If any other nominee is going to stop Schmigadoon! it’s likely the vampires of The Lost Boys. Dorian voters bestowed Lost Boys composers The Rescues with the Outstanding Original Score trophy. A split between the two bellwether categories of Score and Book generally indicates a split race for the top category.
Outstanding Broadway Play resulted in a tie between The Balusters and Giant. These shows will face off against the Pulitzer-winning Liberation on Sunday, which is far ahead in Gold Derby’s odds. If neither The Balusters nor Giant could pull off a solo win at the Dorian Awards — where Liberation was ineligible — a Tony upset for either show feels unlikely.
The Dorian Award for Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival went to Ragtime. The Lincoln Center Theatre production has officially swept this category at all four major precursor awards, having also picked up the Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle awards. Star Joshua Henry also added another acting win to his belt, with a repeat victory at the Tonys feeling like the safest call of the night.
Ragtime’s main Tonys competition is Cats: The Jellicle Ball, which won the Dorian and Outer Critics Circle prizes for its off-Broadway run, making it largely ineligible for this year’s precursor prizes. But Dorian voters clearly adore the production as it picked up the Broadway Showstopper Award for Emma Sofia’s infectious MTA-themed vogueing during “Skimblehsanks the Railway Cat.” Additionally, ballroom icon and Cats actor Junior LaBeija was named LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer, a career achievement honor.
Elsewhere, the Joe Mantello-helmed production of Death of a Salesman picked up the Dorian Award for Outstanding Revival of a Broadway Play. Like Ragtime, it has swept this category at all four major Tony precursors. But the acting categories broke a different way as Becky Shaw’s Alden Ehrenreich bested Laurie Metcalf in the gender-neutral Outstanding Featured Performance category, and Nathan Lane lost the Lead Performance category to John Lithgow for Giant, making the Tony winner a toss-up.
Speaking of “titanic,” the biggest surprise of the Dorian winners list is Titanique‘s Layton Williams, who pulled off a victory in Outstanding Featured Performance over fellow Tony nominees Ali Louis Bourzgui (The Lost Boys) and Ben Levi Ross (Ragtime). With a Dorian and Olivier Awards to his name, Williams must now be considered a legitimate threat in one of the closest acting categories of the Tonys.
The biggest winner of the Dorian Awards though, came from off-Broadway. Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot scooped up five awards, including Outstanding off-Broadway Play.
Here’s the complete list of 2026 Dorian Theater Awards winners:
Outstanding Broadway Musical
The Lost Boys
[winner] Schmigadoon!
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Outstanding Broadway Play
[winner] The Balusters (tie)
[winner] Giant (tie)
Little Bear Ridge Road
Punch
Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival
Chess
[winner] Ragtime
Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Outstanding Broadway Play Revival
[winner] Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Becky Shaw
Fallen Angels
Marjorie Prime
Oedipus
Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production
Little Bear Ridge Road
[winner] 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
[winner] 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
[winner] 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
[winner] 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
[winner] 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
[winner] Ragtime
Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Schmigadoon!
Outstanding Original Score of a Broadway Production
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman by Caroline Shaw
[winner] 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
[winner] Schmigadoon! by Cinco Paul
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) by Jim Barne & Kit Buchan
Outstanding Script of a Broadway Play
[winner] 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
[winner] 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)
[winner] 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
[winner] 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
[winner] Prince Faggot
Outstanding Off-Broadway Revival
Bat Boy: The Musical
[winner] Heathers, The Musical (tie)
Oratorio for Living Things
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park)
[winner] The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (tie)
Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production
Beau: The Musical
Becoming Eve
Bowl EP
[winner] Prince Faggot
Saturday Church
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Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Bryson Battle, Saturday Church
[winner] Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Well, I’ll Let You Go (tie)
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
[winner] John McCrea, Prince Faggot (tie)
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
[winner] J. Harrison Ghee, Saturday Church (tie)
[winner] David Greenspan, Prince Faggot (tie)
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
[winner] Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill
Outstanding Design for an Off-Broadway Production
Beau: The Musical
Bowl EP
Cold War Choir Practice
[winner] Masquerade
Prince Faggot
LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season
Michael Arden
Shayok Misha Chowdhury
Luke Evans
[winner] Qween Jean
Constantine Rousouli
Brandon Uranowitz
LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer
For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth, and equity
Michael Arden
[winner] Junior LaBeija
Nathan Lane
Joe Mantello
Sam Pinkleton
