Tony Awards 2026 Winners List: Every Major Category (Complete Guide)

Tony Awards 2026 winners list — every major Broadway category in one scrollable hub after the 79th annual Tony Awards crowned honorees Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, broadcast live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+, hosted by P!nk. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman led the night with six trophies — the most of any production — while Schmigadoon! claimed Best Musical and Liberation won Best Play. This page lists all 26 competitive categories with verified winners sourced from TonyAwards.com, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter. Cross-link our Tony sibling guides: most Tony Awards won by a show, Tony Awards categories explained, youngest Tony Award winners ever, Broadway shows with most Tony nominations, and actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar.

Editor note: USA Celebs published this Tony Awards 2026 winners list within days of the June 7 ceremony with verified honorees from the American Theatre Wing and trade reporting. We cover category results and records — not red-carpet outfit breakdowns (Pillar F owns fashion analysis). For country-music awards sibling context, see our CMA Awards 2026 winners list, ACM Awards 2026 winners list, and CMA vs ACM Awards difference guides, plus our Awards archive for full Pillar G coverage.

Tony Awards 2026 Winners List: Ceremony, Venue, and How to Watch

The 79th Tony Awards returned to Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7, 2026, broadcast live coast-to-coast on CBS from 8:00–11:00 p.m. ET / 5:00–8:00 p.m. PT, with streaming on Paramount+. Pop superstar P!nk emceed Broadway’s biggest night — her first time hosting the Tonys — opening with “Lady Marmalade” and delivering tribute numbers to Chicago, Book of Mormon, Rent, and A Chorus Line. An Act One preshow hosted by Laura Benanti and Tituss Burgess aired on Pluto TV before the main CBS telecast.

How to rewatch: Paramount+ carries the ceremony replay. The 2025–2026 eligibility season ran April 28, 2025 through April 26, 2026 across 41 eligible Broadway theatres. Approximately 857 designated Tony voters determined winners in 26 competitive categories.

Key 2026 ceremony facts:

• Most wins (single show): Death of a Salesman — 6 trophies
• Most nominations (tied): The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! — 12 each
• Four-win productions: Schmigadoon!, The Lost Boys, Ragtime
• History-making moment: Qween Jean became the first openly transgender Tony winner (Costume Design, Cats: The Jellicle Ball)
• Best Play milestone: Bess Wohl’s Liberation — first American woman to win Best Play in nearly four decades since Wendy Wasserstein (1989)

How to Read This Tony Awards 2026 Winners List

Every category below lists the verified winner from the June 7 ceremony, plus context on why the result matters. Tony voters spread the wealth — no single show dominated despite Death of a Salesman’s six-trophy haul, as Ragtime, Schmigadoon!, The Lost Boys, and Cats: The Jellicle Ball each claimed multiple honors on the Tony Awards 2026 winners list.

For deeper category definitions, read our Tony Awards categories explained guide. For record-chasing context, bookmark most Tony Awards won by a show and Broadway shows with most Tony nominations.

Best Musical, Best Play, and Revivals on the Tony Awards 2026 Winners List

Best Musical — Winner: Schmigadoon!

Nominees: The Lost Boys, Schmigadoon!, Titaníque, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

Why it matters: The Apple TV+ parody-turned-Broadway transfer won four trophies including Best Book (Cinco Paul), Original Score (Cinco Paul), and Orchestrations (Doug Besterman and Mike Morris). Producer Lorne Michaels closed the telecast with a levity-filled acceptance speech after a long night.

Best Play — Winner: Liberation (Bess Wohl)

Nominees: The Balusters, Giant, Liberation, Little Bear Ridge Road

Wohl thanked producers for “believing that an ensemble play about women’s lives belongs on Broadway” — a milestone win for American women playwrights on the Tony Awards 2026 winners list.

Best Revival of a Musical — Winner: Ragtime

Nominees: Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Ragtime, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show

Ragtime finally claimed the top musical prize — the original 1998 production won book and score but never Best Musical until this revival sweep with four total trophies.

Best Revival of a Play — Winner: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Nominees: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Becky Shaw, Every Brilliant Thing, Fallen Angels, Oedipus

Joe Mantello’s revival starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf dominated the Tony Awards 2026 winners list with six awards — Best Revival, Featured Actress (Metcalf), Direction (Mantello), Scenic Design (Chloe Lamford), Lighting Design (Jack Knowles), and Sound Design (Mikaal Sulaiman).

Leading and Featured Acting Winners on the Tony Awards 2026 Winners List

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play — Winner: John Lithgow (Giant)

Nominees: Will Harrison (Punch), Nathan Lane (Death of a Salesman), John Lithgow (Giant), Daniel Radcliffe (Every Brilliant Thing), Mark Strong (Oedipus)

Lithgow won his third Tony — following The Changing Room (1973) and Sweet Smell of Success (2002) — for a play about Roald Dahl’s 1983 antisemitism scandal.

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play — Winner: Lesley Manville (Oedipus)

Manville claimed her first Tony at age 69 in her Broadway debut as Jocasta, joking that someone should write a play for five women because “we are quite bankable.”

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical — Winner: Joshua Henry (Ragtime)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical — Winner: Caissie Levy (Ragtime)

Ragtime’s lead actors anchored the revival’s four-trophy sweep on the Tony Awards 2026 winners list.

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play — Winner: Alden Ehrenreich (Becky Shaw)

Ehrenreich won on his Broadway debut — his first Tony after film roles in Solo: A Star Wars Story and Weapons.

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play — Winner: Laurie Metcalf (Death of a Salesman)

Metcalf claimed her third Tony after Three Tall Women (2018) and A Doll’s House, Part 2 (2017).

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical — Winner: Ali Louis Bourzgui (The Lost Boys)

Bourzgui, 26, delivered one of the night’s most political speeches — dedicating his award to immigrant families and queer and trans communities.

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical — Winner: Shoshana Bean (The Lost Boys)

Direction, Book, Score, and Choreography on the Tony Awards 2026 Winners List

Best Direction of a Play — Winner: Joe Mantello (Death of a Salesman)

Best Direction of a Musical — Winner: Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch (Cats: The Jellicle Ball)

The Cats revival directors honored Black and Brown trans women and gay men as ballroom pioneers — a history-making win for the voguing reimagining.

Best Book of a Musical — Winner: Cinco Paul (Schmigadoon!)

Best Original Score — Winner: Cinco Paul (Schmigadoon!)

Best Choreography — Winner: Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons (Cats: The Jellicle Ball)

Best Orchestrations — Winner: Doug Besterman and Mike Morris (Schmigadoon!)

Design Categories on the Tony Awards 2026 Winners List

Scenic Design of a Musical — Winner: Dane Laffrey (The Lost Boys)

Scenic Design of a Play — Winner: Chloe Lamford (Death of a Salesman)

Costume Design of a Musical — Winner: Qween Jean (Cats: The Jellicle Ball)

Qween Jean became the first openly transgender Tony winner, declaring “We have to take up space. We have to shift the paradigm.”

Costume Design of a Play — Winner: Jeff Mahshie (Fallen Angels)

Lighting Design of a Musical — Winner: Jen Schriever and Michael Arden (The Lost Boys)

Lighting Design of a Play — Winner: Jack Knowles (Death of a Salesman)

Sound Design of a Musical — Winner: Kai Harada (Ragtime)

Sound Design of a Play — Winner: Mikaal Sulaiman (Death of a Salesman)

Special Tony Awards and Honors

Non-competitive tributes shaped the June 7 telecast alongside the competitive Tony Awards 2026 winners list:

• Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement: André Bishop, Jules Fisher, and James Lapine
• Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award: Mary-Mitchell Campbell
• Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre: 1/52 Project, Jake Bell, Kenn Lubin, and Loren Plotkin

For how Tony wins feed EGOT conversations, read actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar. For age-record context on Bourzgui and other breakout honorees, see youngest Tony Award winners ever.

Biggest Takeaways from the Tony Awards 2026 Winners List

Three post-ceremony storylines anchor this hub:

• Death of a Salesman revival dominance — Six trophies made Arthur Miller’s classic the night’s biggest winner despite Scott Rudin going unmentioned throughout the telecast.
• Schmigadoon! musical sweep — Best Musical plus book, score, and orchestrations validated Lorne Michaels’ Broadway gamble after Apple TV+ canceled the streaming series.
• Representation milestones — Qween Jean’s costume design win and Bess Wohl’s Best Play breakthrough reshaped who Broadway celebrates on the Tony Awards 2026 winners list.

The 2025–2026 season was Broadway’s highest-grossing ever at $1.9 billion — even with only six new musicals opening — framing the commercial stakes behind every trophy on the Tony Awards 2026 winners list.

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