Megan Thee Stallion, center, performs during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — “Schmigadoon!,” an adaptation of an Apple TV series that gently mocks big, brassy Broadway shows, won the best new musical Tony Award on a night when actor John Lithgow and playwright Bess Wohl made history.
The prize for the best new play went to Wohl’s “Liberation,” about a consciousness-raising women’s group in 1970s Ohio, which earlier this year also won the Pulitzer Prize
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Ann Harada, from left, Bruce Oscar, Ana Gasteyer and the cast of “Schmigadoon!” perform during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
The Tony for best play revival went to “Death of a Salesman,” Arthur Miller’s masterpiece that looks at the unraveling of the American Dream.
Pink, the Tony’s host, started the show spinning and then dangling uncomfortably from a harness over the stage, dressed like Peter Pan.
Neil Patrick Harris, left, and Host Pink perform during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Here are some highlights from Broadway’s biggest night, in photos.
Host Pink performs during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Host Pink, left, and Shoshana Bean perform during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Host Pink perfroms ‘All That Jazz’ during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Luke Evans performs ‘Time Warp’ from “Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show” during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Juliette Lewis, left, and Amber Gray perform “Time Wrap” from ‘Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show’ during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
David Burtka, left, and Neil Patrick Harris arrive at the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Nick Barrington, from left, Caissie Levy, Colin Donnell, Ben Levi Ross and the cast of ‘Ragtime’ perform a number during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Bess Wohl, center, accepts the award for best play for “Liberation” during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Megan Thee Stallion, left, presents the award for best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical to Shoshana Bean for “The Lost Boys” during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Jim Parsons performs a number from “Titanique” during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Bill Rauch, left, and Zhailon Levingston accept the award for best direction of a musical for “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Brandon Uranowitz, center, performs a song from “Ragtime” during the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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