{"id":258560,"date":"2026-06-07T22:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258560\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:51:19","slug":"live-updates-2026-tony-award-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258560\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE UPDATES: 2026 Tony Award winners announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read below to find out which shows and artists took home top prizes in real time throughout the ceremony, broadcasting live from Radio City Music Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The 79th annual Tony Awards ceremony is underway at Radio City Music Hall, celebrating the best of the 2025-26 Broadway season. Select winners are currently being announced on the pre-show titled The Tony Awards: Act One, streaming live on PlutoTV through 8 p.m., with the main ceremony <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/theatre-news\/news\/tony-awards-guide-how-to-watch-nominees-and-more\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">telecast on CBS and Paramount+<\/a> from 8-11 p.m. E.T.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the competitive awards, multiple special award recipients were announced in the weeks prior to the ceremony. The 2026 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre were awarded to production manager Jake Bell; designer and creative director Kenn Lubin; theatre lawyer Loren Plotkin; and 1\/52 Project, a grant for early-career designers from marginalized groups.<\/p>\n<p>Lifetime Achievement Awards went to former Lincoln Center Theater artistic director Andr\u00e9 Bishop, lighting designer Jules Fisher, and playwright\/director James Lapine. Music director Mary-Mitchell Campbell won the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for humanitarian work. Ellenwood, Georgia middle school theatre teacher Freddie Hendricks won the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, and the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin won the Regional Theatre Tony Award.<\/p>\n<p>Read below for live updates on the competitive 2026 Tony Award winners as they&#8217;re announced. Winners are denoted in bold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/whats-on\/tony-award-winners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get tickets to Tony Award-winning shows on New York Theatre Guide.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best Musical<\/p>\n<p>Best Play<\/p>\n<p>Best Revival of a Play<\/p>\n<p>Best Revival of a Musical<\/p>\n<p>Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play<\/p>\n<p>Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play<\/p>\n<p>Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical<\/p>\n<p>Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical<\/p>\n<p>Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play<\/p>\n<p>Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play<\/p>\n<p>Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical<\/p>\n<p>Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical<\/p>\n<p>Best Direction of a Play<\/p>\n<p>Best Direction of a Musical<\/p>\n<p>Best Choreography<\/p>\n<p>Best Orchestrations<\/p>\n<p>Best Book of a Musical<\/p>\n<p>Best Original Score (Music and\/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre<\/p>\n<p>Best Scenic Design of a Play<\/p>\n<p>Best Scenic Design of a Musical<\/p>\n<p>Best Costume Design of a Play<\/p>\n<p>Best Costume Design of a Musical<\/p>\n<p>Best Lighting Design of a Play<\/p>\n<p>Best Lighting Design of a Musical<\/p>\n<p>Best Sound Design of a Play<\/p>\n<p>Best Sound Design of a Musical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read below to find out which shows and artists took home top prizes in real time throughout the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-258560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}