GLAAD Media Awards Nominees Include History Boys and Little Dog Laughed

By Andrew Gans
January 22, 2007

Nominees for the 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards honoring "fair, accurate and inclusive" representations of gay individuals in the media were announced Jan. 21.

The annual awards honor the best in journalism, film, TV and theatre. This year's nominations include three theatre-related categories: Outstanding Los Angeles Theater; Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway and Off-Broadway; and Outstanding New York Theatre: Off Off-Broadway. For the third consecutive year, the ceremony will be televised. Logo, the new MTV Networks channel, will air the GLAAD Media Awards April21.

Four GLAAD Media Awards ceremonies will be held: March 26 at the New York Marriott Marquis; April 14 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles; April 28 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco; and May 10 at the JW Marriott in South Florida.

The theatre-related categories follow. For a list of all 2007 nominees, visit www.glaad.org.

Outstanding Los Angeles Theater
Bluebonnet Court, by Zsa Zsa Gershick
Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley
A Man of No Importance, book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, by Matthew Bourne, music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Play It Cool, book by Larry Dean Harris, music by Phillip Swann, lyrics by Mark Winkler

Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off-Broadway
25 Questions for a Jewish Mother by Judy Gold and Kate Moira Ryan
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane
Measure for Pleasure by David Grimm
[title of show] by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell

Outstanding New York Theater: Off-Off Broadway
33 to Nothing by Grant James Varjas
Candy and Dorothy by David Johnston
Dina Martina: Sedentary Lady by Grady West
Kiss and Cry by Tom Rowan
Sinner by Ben Payne

GLAAD is dedicated to promoting fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of individuals and events in all media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.