'Little Dog,' History Boys Among GLAAD Award Nominees

The 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominations have been announced.

The GLAAD Awards honor achievement in theatre, film, TV and journalism.  Its categories for theatre include: Outstanding Los Angeles Theater; Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway and Off-Broadway; and Outstanding New York Theatre: Off Off-Broadway.

The GLAAD Media Awards will be televised on Logo on April 21st. 

There will be four GLAAD ceremonies: in New York on March 26th, in Los Angeles on April 14th, in San Francisco on April 28th, and in South Florida on May 10th.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is "dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation," according to the organization's website.

The list of theatrical nominees follows:

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

Visit www.glaad.org for more information and a full list of nominees.