Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleThe 79th annual Tony Awards ceremony, hosted for the first time by Grammy-winning singer Pink, took place at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, celebrating the best of Broadway plays and musicals from the past year. Schmigadoon! secured the coveted Best Musical award, also winning Best Original Score, Best Orchestrations, and Best Book of a Musical, while the Pulitzer Prize-winning production Liberation was named Best Play. Ragtime earned the Best Revival of a Musical award, and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman received the most accolades for an individual production with six Tonys, including Best Revival of a Play. John Lithgow made history as the oldest man to win a competitive acting Tony at 80 for his role in Giant, and Laurie Metcalf won for her supporting performance in Death of a Salesman. Shoshana Bean and Ali Louis Bourzgui both won for their roles in The Lost Boys, and the broadcast also featured tributes to several Broadway shows celebrating milestone anniversaries. In fullTony Awards 2026: John Lithgow, Ragtime, Death of a Salesman win bigThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

The 79th Annual Grammy Awards are underway and the musicals "The Lost Boys," "Schmigidoon!" and revivial of the classic play "Death of a Salesman" are among the big winners so far.

“Schmigadoon!” and “Liberation” were the best musical and best play winners, respectively, at the Tony Awards on Sunday.

This year’s Tony awards saw wins for John Lithgow, Laurie Metcalf, Joshua Henry and Lesley Manville

John Lithgow won the Tony Award for best lead actor in a play for his work in “Giant” as the telecast started Sunday