{"id":722431,"date":"2026-06-08T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/722431\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:58:08","slug":"tony-awards-2026-death-of-a-salesman-triumphs-as-lesley-manville-and-john-lithgow-also-win-tony-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/722431\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony awards 2026: Death of a Salesman triumphs, as Lesley Manville and John Lithgow also win | Tony awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

A stripped-back take on Arthur Miller\u2019s Death of a Salesman<\/a> dominated this year\u2019s Tonys, winning six awards, while Lesley Manville and John Lithgow took home lead acting trophies.<\/p>\n

Death of a Salesman was named best revival of a play, with the award-winning director Joe Mantello praising Miller\u2019s story as one that \u201cstill talks to us through time\u201d. Star Nathan Lane accepted the award on behalf of the cast, and called it a play that \u201ccontinues to teach us who we are as humans and Americans\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lane\u2019s co-star Laurie Metcalf<\/a> also won her third Tony award, beating out June Squibb and Aya Cash to be named best featured actress in a play.<\/p>\n

The six wins makes it the most awarded play revival in Tonys history.<\/p>\n

Death of a Salesman has previously won for best play back in 1949 and then for best revival in 1984, 1999 and 2012.<\/p>\n

Manville saw off competition from Rose Byrne and Carrie Coon to take home the leading actress in a play award, for the Broadway transfer of Oedipus<\/a>. The actor previously won an Olivier for her performance. \u201cI\u2019m a bit overwhelmed, it was my first time on Broadway so this is such a big deal,\u201d Manville said on stage.<\/p>\n

Lesley Manville accepts her Tony award. Photograph: Charles Sykes\/AP<\/p>\n

Lithgow was named best leading actor in a play for his role as Roald Dahl in antisemitism drama Giant<\/a> after also winning an Olivier award<\/a> during the show\u2019s West End run. The actor beat out Lane, Mark Strong and Daniel Radcliffe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinarily important play of this moment,\u201d he said on stage, winning his third Tony. At 80, Lithgow has also made history as the oldest man to ever win a competitive acting Tony.<\/p>\n

Bess Wohl\u2019s intergenerational feminism epic Liberation<\/a> was named best play after recently winning the Pulitzer prize for drama<\/a>. \u201cThis is the honour of a lifetime,\u201d Wohl said. It\u2019s the first time a female playwright has won the award since 2009; Wohl is only the fourth woman to have won.<\/p>\n

The award for best musical went to the stage version of cancelled Apple TV series Schmigadoon!<\/a>. \u201cSometimes singing, dancing, a lot of jokes and a happy ending is really all you need,\u201d the producer Lorne Michaels said in his speech. The show also picked up three other awards.<\/p>\n

A new take on Ragtime won four Tonys, including best revival of a musical and for leading actor and leading actress in a musical, for Joshua Henry and Caissie Levy, respectively. It marked Henry\u2019s first win after four nominations. \u201cEvery artist in this room, every artist at home, fight, fight, fight to be heard,\u201d Henry said in his speech.<\/p>\n

The Lost Boys<\/a>, an adaptation of the hit 80s vampire movie, also won four trophies including featured actor and featured actress from a musical. Cats: The Jellicle Ball<\/a>, the queer ballroom reinvention of Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s classic musical, picked up three awards, including best direction of a musical.<\/p>\n

Alden Ehrenreich was named best featured actor in a play for his Broadway debut in a revival of 2008 dating comedy drama Becky Shaw<\/a>, beating Christopher Abbott and Ruben Santiago-Hudson.<\/p>\n

Pink performs at the Tony awards. Photograph: Brendan McDermid\/Reuters<\/p>\n

The ceremony was hosted by the singer Pink, who poked fun at her acrobatic reputation by kicking off the evening as Peter Pan flying into the theatre, before leading a star-packed version of her Moulin Rouge hit Lady Marmalade with guests including Lea Michele and Megan Thee Stallion.<\/p>\n

The star called herself \u201cBroadway\u2019s biggest fan\u201d who wanted to pay tribute to \u201cthe hardest-working people in showbiz\u201d.<\/p>\n

The awards come after the most recent Broadway season broke a new record<\/a> with nearly $1.91bn in ticket sales.<\/p>\n

Nominated shows that left empty-handed included The Rocky Horror Show<\/a>, Chess<\/a>, The Balusters<\/a>, Titan\u00edque<\/a>, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) and Every Brilliant Thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s ceremony<\/a> saw major wins for robot musical Maybe Happy Ending, and actors including Nicole Scherzinger and Cole Escola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stripped-back take on Arthur Miller\u2019s Death of a Salesman dominated this year\u2019s Tonys, winning six awards, while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-722431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}