Bess Wohl’s ““Liberation” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The new musicals “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” each received 12 of the nominations for the 79th Tony Awards. “Schmigadoon” and “The Balusters” won the Outer Critics Circle Awards for outstanding new Broadway musical and outstanding new Broadway play respectively. The 80th Theatre World Awards honored 12 new faces of Broadway, while June Squibb, at age 96, became the oldest performer to be nominated for a Tony Award.
Tony Awards names Freddie Hendricks of Ellenwood, Georgia as 2026 Excellence in Theatre Education honoree
More theater awards coming up this week, as well as, suddenly, the first two shows of the new Broadway season, explained below.
Slicing and Dicing The Award Results
Here is the New York Times take on the Tony nominations; here is Gold Derby’s by the numbers: 26 fun facts
The 8 Theater Award Stars of 2026
Honoring 11 who were NOT Tony nominated
The Week in New York Theater News
Opening the Broadway 2026-2027 season: “Celebrity Autobiography,” the first Broadway run of a show that has previously played In New York at the Triad Theatre, in which a series of celebrities read other celebrities autobiographies in order to make fun of them. May 16 to August 16, officially opening May 18 at the Shubert Theater.
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Broadway: will run at Broadway’s August Wilson Theater for 20 weeks starting August 14, 2026, opening September 15. “James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are. An original modern ghost story story inspired by the film franchise.
Schmigadoon is extending through January 3, 2027, adding 17 more weeks of performance.
Adrienne Warren will join the cast of David Auburn’s Proof on June 30 as Claire, replacing Kara Young,who departs the play on June 28 due to a p reviously announced commitment to The Whoopi Monologues at Lincoln Center Theater.
Maya Rudolph extends in “Oh, Mary” through July 6.
Costume Art at the Met of a Different Kind
In Memoriam
Rex Reed, 87, entertainment journalist and critic.
Muriel Mandell, 104, theatergoer
