It’s Broadway’s biggest night!<\/p>\n
As always, the 2026 Tony Awards, set for Sunday, June 7, at Radio City Music Hall, will be a night of celebration, performances, nail-biting awards races, celebrity stopovers and surprises.<\/p>\n
And as always, there will be moments that make this year’s awards ceremony stand out from the pack, whether they are category quirks, cast reunions, show-stopping numbers from this year’s top-nominated shows, mile-a-minute laughs or remembrances to hold in our hearts.<\/p>\n
Full list: <\/strong>Broadway’s best honored with 2026 Tony Awards nominations<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” led the way this year, with 12 Tony nominations apiece, while “Ragtime” was close on their heels with 11.<\/p>\n The cast of Broadway’s “Schmigadoon.”<\/p>\n All seven nominees for Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical will perform during the awards ceremony. Those include: “The Lost Boys”,”\u00a0Schmigadoon!”, “Titan\u00edque”,\u00a0“Two Strangers\u00a0(Carry a Cake Across New York),”\u00a0“Cats: The Jellicle Ball”,\u00a0“Ragtime”\u00a0and\u00a0Richard O’Brien’s\u00a0“The Rocky Horror Show.”<\/p>\n Broadway: <\/strong>‘Schmigadoon’ balances heart, hilarity in new Golden Age musical<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Here are seven things to watch out for at the 2026 Tony Awards.<\/p>\n Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz and the cast of “Ragtime” on Broadway.<\/p>\n The Tony Awards are on Sunday, June 7.<\/p>\n The Tony Awards will start at 8 p.m. EST. This is after the preshow, which starts at 6:35 p.m.<\/p>\n The Tony Awards are on CBS. The preshow will stream on Pluto.<\/p>\n The Tony Awards will stream on Paramount Plus.<\/p>\n In an unusual move, the Tony Awards host has never actually starred on Broadway.<\/p>\n But that doesn’t mean the pop singer Pink lacks the pizzazz to sparkle onstage. The Grammy Award-winning icon and lifelong theater fan will bring her energy, talents and powerhouse personality to hosting duties at the 79th annual Tony Awards. And two of the pop star’s songs currently appear in Broadway shows \u2014 \u201cRaise Your Glass\u201d in\u00a0“Moulin Rouge! The Musical”\u00a0and \u201cF**kin\u2019 Perfect\u201d in\u00a0“& Juliet.”<\/p>\n \u201cIt is the honor of an entire lifetime to host a night celebrating the literal hardest working people in showbiz,\u201d said Pink when the news was announced. \u201cBroadway has shaped my life and how I put my own shows together \u2014\u00a0it is a community that is supportive and inclusive, and full of talent and love. These people give magic every single day, and I cannot wait to celebrate them with the entire world.\u201d<\/p>\n Prior to the live broadcast, Tony Award winner Laura Benanti and six-time Emmy and SAG-nominated actor, musician, and writer Tituss Burgess will host “The Tony Awards: Act One,” a live pre-show available to viewers for free on Pluto TV. That’s set for 6:35 to 8 p.m. Eastern. The duo will present the night’s first round of Tony Awards.<\/p>\n Stephanie Hsu, Andrew Durand and the cast of “The Rocky Horror Show” on Broadway.<\/p>\n Incredibly, given the prodigious talent the Best Leading Actress in a Musical nominees display across Broadway every night, and with many of them gracing New York’s stages for a decade or more, it’s the first nomination for all five contenders in the category.<\/p>\n More: <\/strong>‘Rocky Horror’ spells cult fun, reinvention for Broadway’s Amber Gray<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n With Sarah Chase (“Schmigadoon!”), Stephanie Hsu (“The Rocky Horror Show”), Caissie Levy (“Ragtime”), Marla Mindelle (“Titanique”) and Christiani Pitts (“Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)”) vying for the trophy, it’s certain to be a night to remember.<\/p>\n This year, two of the five shows nominated for Best Original Score are plays, not musicals. The category’s full official name is Best Original Score (Music and\/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre, not limiting the nominees to musicals, and this year’s nominators rewarded the music that drove “Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman” and “August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” alongside the musicals “The Lost Boys,” “Schmigadoon!” and “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York).” In the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season, all four productions nominated for Best Original Score were plays, leading to a win for Christopher Nightingale’s “A Christmas Carol.”<\/p>\n More: <\/strong>‘Chess’ on Broadway features new book fueled ‘after a couple whiskeys’<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Daniel Radcliffe in “Every Brilliant Thing” on Broadway.<\/p>\n “Every Brilliant Thing” is nominated in the Best Revival of a Play category. But it’s never been performed on Broadway before this season. Why?<\/p>\n Because of the so-called “classics rule,” introduced in 2002. That rule states “A play or musical that is determined by the Tony Awards Administration Committee (in its sole discretion) to be a \u201cclassic\u201d or in the historical or popular repertoire shall not be eligible for an Award in the Best Play or Best Musical category but may be eligible in the appropriate Best Revival category, if any, provided it meets all other eligibility requirements setforth in these rules.”<\/p>\n Prior to its West End and Broadway debuts, “Every Brilliant Thing” played the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, had a run off-Broadway as well as aired as an HBO special, so the Tony committee placed it in the revival category.<\/p>\n Luke Evans and Josh Rivera in “The Rocky Horror Show” on Broadway.<\/p>\n Its competitors in the Best Revival of a Play category are “Becky Shaw,” “Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman,” “Fallen Angels” and “Oedipus.”<\/p>\n Andrew Rannells and the cast of “The Book of Mormon” performs on stage during the 65th Annual Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre on June 12, 2011 in New York City.<\/p>\n The entire original cast of\u00a0“The Book of Mormon” will reunite to celebrate the show’s 15th anniversary. Tony Award nominees\u00a0Josh Gad,\u00a0Andrew Rannells\u00a0and\u00a0Rory O\u2019Malley\u00a0and Tony Award winner\u00a0Nikki M. James will return in a special performance that will be introduced by its Tony Award-winning creators\u00a0Trey Parker, Matt Stone\u00a0and\u00a0Robert Lopez.<\/p>\n Speaking of big milestones, “Chicago” will offer up a special performance to celebrate 30 years on Broadway.<\/p>\n Queen Latifah, who earned an Academy Award nomination for her role as Matron Mama Morton in the film adaptation, will join host Pink, Jesse Tyler Ferguson,\u00a0Alex Newell, Adrienne Warren, Julianne Hough,\u00a0Whitney Leavitt, Dylan Mulvaney\u00a0and more for a tribute performance from the musical.<\/p>\n Marking other milestones, Rachel Zegler, who will return to Broadway next spring in “Evita,” will offer a tribute to\u00a0“A Chorus Line,” which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, and Tony Award winner\u00a0Leslie Odom Jr.\u00a0will perform the In Memoriam tribute with \u201cWithout You\u201d from\u00a0“Rent”\u00a0in honor of the show\u2019s 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n According to the Tony Awards, “legitimate theatrical productions opening in any of the 41 eligible Broadway theatres during the current season may be considered for Tony nominations. The 2025\/2026 eligibility season began April 28, 2025 and ended April 26, 2026.” The Tony Awards were voted on in 26 competitive categories by 857 designated Tony voters within the theater community.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n
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Original cast of ‘The Book of Mormon’ reunites<\/h2>\n
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