Jun 7, 2026
·Mary Callahan
There’s nothing quite like Tony night. For a few electric hours, an entire Broadway season — years of workshops, previews, opening nights and standing ovations — distills into one ceremony where the best of the best take center stage. Whether you watched from your couch or refreshed your phone waiting for results, the 2026 Tony Awards delivered the kind of drama that only live theater can produce.
This year’s ceremony took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, with P!nk hosting the 79th annual Tony Awards. The broadcast featured performances from the season’s nominated musicals and major Broadway anniversary tributes, including celebrations of Chicago, A Chorus Line and The Book of Mormon. The night spread wins across several productions, with Schmigadoon! winning Best Musical and taking home book, score and orchestrations honors, while Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman led the play revival side with major acting, directing and design wins. Ragtime, Cats: The Jellicle Ball and The Lost Boys also earned major recognition across performance and creative categories.
Below you’ll find the 2026 Tony Award winners across every category, along with notes on which winning productions are still playing on Broadway and where to find tickets on SeatGeek.
2026 Tony Award complete winners list
The 2026 ceremony honored winners across 26 competitive categories spanning musicals, plays, performances, creative direction and design. For a look back at the full 2026 Tony nominations list, see our earlier breakdown. Each section includes the winner, context on what made the win notable and the full nominee list. Winning shows still running on Broadway are flagged so you can plan your next theater night accordingly.
Best musical
This award goes to the new musical that made the strongest overall impression of the Broadway season — story, score, performances, direction and design all working in concert.
Winner: Schmigadoon!
Schmigadoon! emerged as the season’s Best Musical winner, translating the musical-comedy world of the Apple TV+ series into a Broadway production that balanced parody, affection for classic musicals and original stage storytelling. The win capped a strong Tony night for the show, which also earned Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations.
Nominees: The Lost Boys; Schmigadoon!; Titaníque; Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Best play
This category honors the season’s most distinguished new play, recognizing original storytelling and the kind of live drama that reminds audiences why Broadway matters.
Winner: Liberation, by Bess Wohl
Liberation won Best Play after standing out in a competitive season of new Broadway drama. Bess Wohl’s play earned recognition for its ensemble-driven storytelling and timely look at women, memory and the unfinished conversations between generations.
Nominees: The Balusters; Giant; Liberation; Little Bear Ridge Road
Best revival of a musical
This award celebrates a returning musical that found fresh life on Broadway through reimagined staging, casting, design or a timely new lens.
Winner: Ragtime
Ragtime returned to Broadway with renewed force, reminding audiences why the musical’s sweeping portrait of America continues to resonate. The revival also earned wins for Caissie Levy in leading actress and Kai Harada for sound design.
Nominees: Cats: The Jellicle Ball; Ragtime; Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Best revival of a play
This category recognizes a revived play that resonated with contemporary audiences while honoring the power of the original work.
Winner: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman had a major night, winning Best Revival of a Play along with awards for direction, featured actress, scenic design, lighting design and sound design. The production’s continued impact showed how Miller’s classic can still feel urgent for modern audiences.
Nominees: Becky Shaw; Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; Every Brilliant Thing; Fallen Angels; Oedipus
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play
This award honors a leading actor whose performance anchored a Broadway play through emotional depth, stage presence and total command of the role.
Winner: John Lithgow, Giant
John Lithgow won for his performance in Giant, adding another major stage honor to a career that spans theater, film and television. His win recognized a commanding turn in a play centered on public legacy, private conviction and moral consequence.
Nominees: Will Harrison, Punch; Nathan Lane, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; John Lithgow, Giant; Daniel Radcliffe, Every Brilliant Thing; Mark Strong, Oedipus
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play
This category celebrates a leading actress whose work helped define one of the season’s most powerful Broadway plays.
Winner: Lesley Manville, Oedipus
Lesley Manville won for Oedipus, bringing precision, gravitas and emotional force to one of theater’s oldest stories. Her performance helped make the revival feel immediate while preserving the tragic scale of the source material.
Nominees: Rose Byrne, Fallen Angels; Carrie Coon, Bug; Susannah Flood, Liberation; Lesley Manville, Oedipus; Kelli O’Hara, Fallen Angels
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical
This award recognizes a leading actor whose singing, acting and stagecraft carried one of Broadway’s musical productions this season.
Winner: Joshua Henry, Ragtime
Joshua Henry won for Ragtime, bringing vocal power, emotional intensity and commanding stage presence to the role of Coalhouse Walker Jr. His performance helped anchor the revival’s sweeping story of ambition, injustice, love and loss, adding another major acting win to Ragtime’s strong Tony night.
Nominees: Nicholas Christopher, Chess; Luke Evans, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show; Joshua Henry, Ragtime; Sam Tutty, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York); Brandon Uranowitz, Ragtime
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical
This category honors a leading actress whose performance brought a Broadway musical to life through voice, character and emotional impact.
Winner: Caissie Levy, Ragtime
Caissie Levy won for Ragtime, a role that demands soaring vocals, emotional clarity and the ability to anchor a sweeping ensemble story. Her win added to a strong Tony night for the revival.
Nominees: Sara Chase, Schmigadoon!; Stephanie Hsu, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show; Caissie Levy, Ragtime; Marla Mindelle, Titaníque; Christiani Pitts, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play
This award highlights a supporting performance that added depth, energy or unforgettable tension to a Broadway play.
Winner: Alden Ehrenreich, Becky Shaw
Alden Ehrenreich won for Becky Shaw, earning recognition for a featured performance that helped sharpen the revival’s wit, friction and emotional stakes.
Nominees: Christopher Abbott, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; Danny Burstein, Marjorie Prime; Brandon J. Dirden, Waiting for Godot; Alden Ehrenreich, Becky Shaw; Ruben Santiago-Hudson, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Richard Thomas, The Balusters
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play
This category recognizes a featured actress whose performance made a lasting impact within the world of a Broadway play.
Winner: Laurie Metcalf, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Laurie Metcalf won for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, adding another Tony to a celebrated stage career. Her performance brought emotional weight and lived-in complexity to the revival’s family drama.
Nominees: Betsy Aidem, Liberation; Marylouise Burke, The Balusters; Aya Cash, Giant; Laurie Metcalf, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; June Squibb, Marjorie Prime
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical
This award celebrates a featured actor whose work helped shape a musical’s humor, heart, momentum or showstopping energy.
Winner: Ali Louis Bourzgui, The Lost Boys
Ali Louis Bourzgui won for The Lost Boys, giving the musical one of its key performance wins of the night. His featured turn helped define the show’s danger, charisma and theatrical edge.
Nominees: Ali Louis Bourzgui, The Lost Boys; André De Shields, Cats: The Jellicle Ball; Bryce Pinkham, Chess; Ben Levi Ross, Ragtime; Layton Williams, Titaníque
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical
This category honors a featured actress whose performance stood out within a Broadway musical’s ensemble.
Winner: Shoshana Bean, The Lost Boys
Shoshana Bean won for The Lost Boys, adding vocal power and Broadway-star presence to the musical’s Tony night. Her win helped cement the production as one of the evening’s major musical stories.
Nominees: Shoshana Bean, The Lost Boys; Hannah Cruz, Chess; Rachel Dratch, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show; Ana Gasteyer, Schmigadoon!; Nichelle Lewis, Ragtime
Best direction of a play
This award recognizes the director who best shaped a play’s pacing, tone, staging and emotional impact.
Winner: Joe Mantello, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Joe Mantello won for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, guiding a revival that balanced classic American drama with fresh urgency. The direction helped the production become one of the night’s strongest play revivals.
Nominees: Nicholas Hytner, Giant; Robert Icke, Oedipus; Kenny Leon, The Balusters; Joe Mantello, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; Whitney White, Liberation
Best direction of a musical
This category honors the director who best unified story, music, movement, design and performance into a cohesive Broadway musical.
Winner: Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch won for Cats: The Jellicle Ball, a revival that reimagined the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical through the world of ballroom culture. The win recognized a bold directorial concept that gave the familiar title a new theatrical identity.
Nominees: Michael Arden, The Lost Boys; Lear deBessonet, Ragtime; Christopher Gattelli, Schmigadoon!; Tim Jackson, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York); Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Best book of a musical
This award celebrates the storytelling foundation of a musical — its structure, dialogue, characters and emotional arc.
Winner: Cinco Paul, Schmigadoon!
Cinco Paul won for the book of Schmigadoon!, adapting the musical-comedy world of the screen series for Broadway. The win recognized the show’s balance of parody, affection for classic musicals and original stage storytelling.
Nominees: David Hornsby and Chris Hoch, The Lost Boys; Cinco Paul, Schmigadoon!; Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli and Tye Blue, Titaníque; Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Best original score
This category recognizes the music and lyrics that gave a Broadway production its distinctive sound and emotional identity.
Winner: Cinco Paul, Schmigadoon!
Schmigadoon! won Best Original Score for Cinco Paul’s music and lyrics. The score’s playful command of musical-theater language helped make the stage adaptation one of the season’s most recognizable new musicals.
Nominees: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, music by Caroline Shaw; August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, music by Steve Bargonetti; The Lost Boys, music and lyrics by The Rescues; Schmigadoon!, music and lyrics by Cinco Paul; Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), music and lyrics by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan
Best scenic design of a play
This award honors the scenic design that best created a play’s physical world and supported its storytelling on stage.
Winner: Chloe Lamford, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Chloe Lamford won for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, with scenic design that helped frame the production’s memory, pressure and domestic collapse.
Nominees: Hildegard Bechtler, Oedipus; Takeshi Kata, Bug; Chloe Lamford, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman; David Korins, Dog Day Afternoon; David Rockwell, Fallen Angels
Best scenic design of a musical
This category celebrates scenic design that gave a Broadway musical its sense of place, scale and spectacle.
Winner: Dane Laffrey, The Lost Boys
Dane Laffrey won for The Lost Boys, a production that leaned into atmosphere, movement and visual spectacle to bring its vampire world to the stage.
Nominees: dots, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show; Soutra Gilmour, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York); Rachel Hauck, Cats: The Jellicle Ball; Dane Laffrey, The Lost Boys; Scott Pask, Schmigadoon!
Best costume design of a play
This award recognizes costumes that helped define character, period, mood and meaning within a Broadway play.
Winner: Jeff Mahshie, Fallen Angels
Jeff Mahshie won for Fallen Angels, with costumes that helped shape the revival’s period elegance, character comedy and visual wit.
Nominees: Brenda Abbandandolo, Dog Day Afternoon; Qween Jean, Liberation; Jeff Mahshie, Fallen Angels; Emilio Sosa, The Balusters; Paul Tazewell, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Best costume design of a musical
This category honors costume design that helped shape a musical’s visual identity, movement and character work.
Winner: Qween Jean, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Qween Jean won for Cats: The Jellicle Ball, a revival whose costumes were central to its ballroom-inspired reinvention. The design helped define the production’s movement, attitude and visual language.
Nominees: Linda Cho, Ragtime; Linda Cho, Schmigadoon!; Qween Jean, Cats: The Jellicle Ball; Ryan Park, The Lost Boys; David I. Reynoso, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Best lighting design of a play
This award celebrates lighting that shaped the mood, focus and emotional texture of a Broadway play.
Winner: Jack Knowles, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Jack Knowles won for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, with lighting that supported the revival’s shifting emotional terrain and sense of memory.
Nominees: Isabella Byrd, Dog Day Afternoon; Natasha Chivers, Oedipus; Stacey Derosier, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Heather Gilbert, Bug; Heather Gilbert, The Fear of 13; Jack Knowles, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Best lighting design of a musical
This category recognizes lighting that heightened a musical’s big numbers, transitions and emotional moments.
Winner: Jen Schriever and Michael Arden, The Lost Boys
Jen Schriever and Michael Arden won for The Lost Boys, giving the musical a lighting design that amplified its supernatural mood, theatrical scale and concert-like energy.
Nominees: Kevin Adams, Chess; Jane Cox, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show; Donald Holder, Schmigadoon!; Adam Honoré, Cats: The Jellicle Ball; Adam Honoré and Donald Holder with 59 Studio, Ragtime; Jen Schriever and Michael Arden, The Lost Boys
Best sound design of a play
This award honors sound design that deepened a play’s atmosphere, tension, realism or theatrical world.
Winner: Mikaal Sulaiman, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Mikaal Sulaiman won for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, with sound design that helped shape the revival’s atmosphere, psychological texture and emotional pressure.
Nominees: Justin Ellington, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Tom Gibbons, Oedipus; Lee Kinney, The Fear of 13; Josh Schmidt, Bug; Mikaal Sulaiman, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Best sound design of a musical
This category recognizes sound design that balanced vocals, music, dialogue and effects into a clear, immersive musical experience.
Winner: Kai Harada, Ragtime
Kai Harada won for Ragtime, a musical that depends on clarity, vocal balance and orchestral sweep to carry its large-scale story.
Nominees: Adam Fisher, The Lost Boys; Kai Harada, Cats: The Jellicle Ball; Kai Harada, Ragtime; Brian Ronan, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show; Walter Trarbach, Schmigadoon!
Best choreography
This award celebrates the movement and dance that helped define a Broadway musical’s energy, storytelling and visual rhythm.
Winner: Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons won for Cats: The Jellicle Ball, where movement was central to the revival’s ballroom-inspired transformation. The choreography helped make the production feel both celebratory and newly alive.
Nominees: Christopher Gattelli, Schmigadoon!; Ellenore Scott, Ragtime; Ani Taj, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show; Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons, Cats: The Jellicle Ball; Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant, The Lost Boys
Best orchestrations
This category recognizes the arrangements that shaped a score’s sound and supported the show’s tone and performances.
Winner: Doug Besterman and Mike Morris, Schmigadoon!
Doug Besterman and Mike Morris won for Schmigadoon!, shaping the musical’s sound with arrangements that supported its old-school Broadway references and comic musical style.
Nominees: Doug Besterman and Mike Morris, Schmigadoon!; Ethan Popp, Kyler England, Adrianne “AG” Gonzalez and Gabriel Mann, The Lost Boys; Lux Pyramid, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York); Brian Usifer, Chess; Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Wilson, Trevor Holder and Doug Schadt, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Non-competitive and honorary Tony Award winners
In addition to the 26 competitive categories, the Tony Awards also recognized several artists, educators, organizations and theater professionals whose work has made a lasting impact on Broadway and the wider theater community.
The 2026 Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre went to André Bishop, Jules Fisher and James Lapine, honoring three careers that have shaped American theater across producing, lighting design, writing and directing. The Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award was presented to Mary-Mitchell Campbell, while the 2026 Regional Theatre Tony Award went to American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
The Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre recognized 1/52 Project, Jake Bell, Kenn Lubin and Loren Plotkin for outstanding contributions to the Broadway industry. The 2026 Excellence in Theatre Education Award, presented by the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University, went to Freddie Hendricks, a theater teacher at Utopian Academy for the Arts in Ellenwood, Georgia.
What Tony wins mean for shows, artists and Broadway fans
A Tony win can reshape a Broadway show’s future overnight. Winning productions typically see a sharp spike in ticket demand as theatergoers move quickly to catch the shows dominating the conversation. Major category wins — Best Musical, Best Play and leading performance — can extend a show’s run, amplify its national profile and give the production lasting marketing momentum.
For artists, the impact is just as significant. “Tony winner” becomes a permanent career credential, whether it marks a first-time breakthrough or a long-overdue milestone. That recognition elevates standing across the industry and often opens doors to new projects on stage and screen.
For you as a theatergoer, a Tony win is both a quality signal and a reason to act. Demand tends to climb fast after the ceremony, and SeatGeek’s Deal Score — which rates every listing from 1 to 10 based on value — can help you find a fair price even when a show is riding its post-Tony wave.
See Tony-winning Broadway shows live
The 2026 Tony Awards put a spotlight on some of the most compelling productions currently running on Broadway. If any of the winners above caught your attention, now is the time to secure your seats before post-ceremony demand pushes prices higher.
SeatGeek offers all-in pricing so you see the total cost upfront, interactive seat maps that let you preview your view before purchasing and Deal Score to help you identify the best value on every listing. You can explore tickets to 2026 Tony-winning shows and the rest of the Broadway lineup on SeatGeek.
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