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Tony Award Winners Announced

The Tony Awards, which honor achievement in the Broadway theatre, were given out in a ceremony held last night at Radio City Music Hall, broadcast on CBS, Paramount +, and Pluto TV.

The design nominees and winners are:

Best Scenic Design of a Musical
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
WINNER Dane Laffrey, The Lost Boys
Scott Pask, Schmigadoon!

Best Scenic Design of a Play
Hildegard Bechtler, Oedipus
Takeshi Kata, Bug
WINNER Chloe Lamford, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
David Korins, Dog Day Afternoon
David Rockwell, Fallen Angels

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Kevin Adams, Chess
Jane Cox, Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show
Donald Holder, Schmigadoon!
Adam Honore, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Adam Honore and Donald Holder (Lighting Design) and 59 Studio (Projection Design), Ragtime
WINNER Jen Schriever and Michael Arden, The Lost Boys

Best Lighting Design of a Play
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
WINNER Jack Knowles, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Caroline Shaw
August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Steve Bargonetti
The Lost Boys, The Rescues
WINNER Schmigadoon!, Cinco Paul
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), Jim Barne and Kit Buchan

Best Sound Design of a Play
Justin Ellington, August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Tom Gibbons, Oedipus
Lee Kinney, The Fear of 13
Josh Schmidt, Bug
WINNER Mikaal Sulaiman, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Best Sound Design of a Musical
Kai Harada, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
WINNER Kai Harada, Ragtime
Adam Fisher, The Lost Boys
Brian Ronan, Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show
Walter Trarbach, Schmigadoon!

Schmigadoon! took the award for Best Musical, with Liberation named Best Play. Top winners included Death of a Salesman with six, and The Lost Boys, Ragtime (winner of Best Musical Revival), and Schmigadoon! with four.

For the full list of winners, go to: playbill.com/article/tony-awards-2026-winners-live-updating.


(8 June 2026)

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