It’s been quite the year, it’s almost Christmas and what would the festive season be without some recognition of the best of 2025? Over the next 2 months we’ll shortlist five nominees in each of 17 categories for our Oscars, or monstas if you will, of 2025.

• Read on for the nominees for the monsta for the Best New Musical of 2025 Previous winners 2024 Why Am I So Single?; 2023 Two Strangers; 2022 Tammy Faye; 2021 Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella; 2020: Sleepless: The musical; 2019: Vulvarine; 2018: Eugenius; 2017: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie