Posted on 06/07/2026 9:05:48 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
A stripped-back take on Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman dominated this year’s Tonys, winning six awards, while Lesley Manville and John Lithgow took home lead acting trophies.
Death of a Salesman was named best revival of a play, with the award-winning director Joe Mantello praising Miller’s story as one that “still talks to us through time”. Star Nathan Lane accepted the award on behalf of the cast, and called it a play that “continues to teach us who we are as humans and Americans”.
The six wins makes it the most awarded play revival in Tonys history. Death of a Salesman has previously won for best play back in 1949 and then for best revival in 1984, 1999 and 2012.
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.
Lithgow was named best leading actor in a play for his role as Roald Dahl in antisemitism drama Giant after also winning an Olivier award during the show’s West End run...
Bess Wohl’s intergenerational feminism epic Liberation was named best play after recently winning the Pulitzer prize for drama...
The award for best musical went to the stage version of cancelled Apple TV series Schmigadoon!. “Sometimes singing, dancing, a lot of jokes and a happy ending is really all you need,” the producer Lorne Michaels said in his speech...
A new take on Ragtime won four Tonys, including best revival of a musical and for leading actor and leading actress in a musical...
The Lost Boys, an adaptation of the hit 80s vampire movie, also won four trophies including featured actor and featured actress from a musical...
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She was very good in Magpie Murders
Thanks I’ll have to check it out.
“The garage has a wall for a reason, Alice…”
“…Awww, can it, Ralph! You said you’d put it back up a month ago!”
SCTV did my favorite revival of Death of a Salesman.
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Am I the only one that HATES Death of a Salesman? I’d rather watch barney and Friends.
Anti-Capitalist garbage.
Who doesn’t want to see Death of a Salesman with Ricardo Montolban, Margaret Hamilton, DeForest “Bones” Kelly, and George Carlin??? 🙂
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