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Awards:
The Tony Nominated Best Costume Designers of a Musical. Qween Jean, Ryan Park, Linda Cho and David Reynoso.
2026 Tony Awards
The 79th Tony Awards were held on June 7, 2026, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and The Tech Table was in attendance!
Some thoughts on the 79th Tony Awards:
Once again the design awards were part of Act One (televised on Pluto TV) but no mention of the design awards were made on the CBS live broadcast. In past years they used to show video clips of the designers receiving their awards. This year nothing. Why?
Qween Jean became the first openly transgender person to win a Tony Award, earning Best Costume Design of a Musical for Cats: The Jellicle Ball at the 2026 Tony Awards
Mikaal Sulaiman (Death of a Salesman) is the first Black winner of Best Sound Design of a Play since the category was established in 2008.
Jeff Mahshie, won the Tony for Best Costume design of a Play - Fallen Angels, but when his name was called he was in the lobby and missed his moment to be on stage. Timing is everything!
Kai Harada, upon beginning his acceptance speech for Best Sound Design of a Musical, did not realize which show he'd won for. The sound designer was nominated for both Cats: The Jellicle Ball and Ragtime, and won for the latter.
Back to Back - Jack Knowles triumphed in 2025 for Best Lighting Design of a Musical with director Jamie Lloyd's Sunset Boulevard, and he won this year for his work on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Back to Back - Dane Laffrey's won this year for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for The Lost Boys a year after notching his first win for Maybe Happy Ending alongside George Reeve for his Video Design.
Wig, Hair and Makeup Designers were once again excluded from the Tony Awards. The majority of the 34 shows eligible for Tony Awards this year had Wig, Hair and Makeup Designers on the title page, yet they are the only designers excluded from the Tony Awards.
Congratulations to all the Tony winners and nominees!
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
dots, Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show
Soutra Gilmour, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Rachel Hauck, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
WINNER Dane Laffrey, The Lost Boys
Scott Pask, Schmigadoon!
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Hildegard Bechtler, Oedipus
Takeshi Kata, Bug
WINNER Chloe Lamford, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
David Korins, Dog Day Afternoon
David Rockwell, Fallen Angels
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Kevin Adams, Chess
Jane Cox, Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show
Donald Holder, Schmigadoon!
Adam Honoré, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Adam Honoré and Donald Holder (Lighting Design) and 59 Studio (Projection Design), Ragtime
WINNER Jen Schriever and Michael Arden, The Lost Boys
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Isabella Byrd, Dog Day Afternoon
Natasha Chivers, Oedipus
Stacey Derosier, August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Heather Gilbert, Bug
Heather Gilbert, The Fear of 13
WINNER Jack Knowles, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Best Sound Design of a Play
Justin Ellington, August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Tom Gibbons, Oedipus
Lee Kinney, The Fear of 13
Josh Schmidt, Bug
WINNER Mikaal Sulaiman, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Kai Harada, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
WINNER Kai Harada, Ragtime
Adam Fisher, The Lost Boys
Brian Ronan, Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show
Walter Trarbach, Schmigadoon!
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Linda Cho, Ragtime
Linda Cho, Schmigadoon!
WINNER Qween Jean, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Ryan Park, The Lost Boys
David I. Reynoso, Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show
Best Costume Design of a Play
Brenda Abbandandolo, Dog Day Afternoon
Qween Jean, Liberation
WINNER Jeff Mahshie, Fallen Angels
Emilio Sosa, The Balusters
Paul Tazewell, August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
We also just added the Tony Award Design Winners from 1947 - 2025 in an easy to read online format. Give it a click!
Ghost Light
The Rocky Horror Show Has Electrified Broadway With a Glittery Spin on the Cult Classic
Ahead of the 2026 Tony Awards, Allure took a strange journey backstage to see how the out-of-this-world hair and makeup looks come to life for the show’s most recent revival. Read More
Stranger Things Will Close on Broadway and in the West End This Winter
The West End production will shutter at the Phoenix Theatre first, on December 27. The Broadway mounting is scheduled to close at the Marquis on January 3.
A filmed version of the stage production was recorded at the Marquis in February. No release timeline or details have been made available by producers Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions. Read More
Coming to Broadway in the 2026-2027 Season:
Opens September 15, 2026 - Paranormal Activity, August Wilson Theatre.
Opens September 2026 - School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play, Samuel J Friedman Theatre.
Opens October 18, 2026 - Other Desert Cities, Hudson Theatre
Opens October 2026 - The Imaginary Invalid, Todd Haimes Theatre.
Opens November 8, 2026 - Wanted, A New Musical, James Earl Jones Theatre.
Opens November 16, 2026 - The Fantasticks, Helen Hayes Theatre
Opens November 19, 2026 - Much Ado About Nothing, Winter Garden Theatre.
Opens December 1, 2026 - Inter Alia, Music Box
Opens December 6, 2026 - Galileo, Shubert Theatre.
Opens March 2026 - Awake and Sing!, Samuel J Friedman Theatre
Opens March 25, 2027 - Evita, Winter Garden Theatre
Opens April 5, 2027 - Gloria, Helen Hayes Theatre
Fall 2026 - 860 - Bill Crystal One Man Show.
Winter 2027 - Mix and Master, Todd Haimes Theatre.
2026-2027 - Dolly: An Original Musical
2026-2027- Dreamgirls
2026-2027 - Let the Good Times Roll
2026 - 2027 - Private Lives
Spring 2027 - Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Warriors”
Spring 2027 - Purple Rain
Spring 2027 - Montauk, Samuel J Friedman Theatre
Spring 2027 - Damn Yankees
Spring 2027 - The Full Monty, Todd Haimes Theatre
Spring 2027 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
2027 - The Seagull
2027 - Paddington: The Musical
Broadway Preview(s):
No Previews This Week.
Broadway Opening(s):
No Openings This Week.
Broadway Closing(s):
Becky Shaw is closing Sunday, June 14, 2026.
Chess and The Balusters is closing Sunday, June 21, 2026
Death Becomes Her and Giant is closing Sunday, June 28, 2026
Off Broadway:
La Cage aux Folles
New York City Center
June 17 - 28, 2026
Scenic Design - David Zinn
Costume Design - Clint Ramos and Michelle Ridley
Lighting Design - Adam Honoré
Sound Design - Megumi Katayama
Pea Dinneen: Raising Her Voice
Greenwich House Theater
W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre
First Preview 06.16.26 • Opening Night 06.18.26 • Closing Date 06.28.26
Projection Design - Dan Reynolds
Lighting Design - Aaron Space
Stage Manager - Kelsey Harlow
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The Duke on 42nd Street
229 West 42nd Street, New York
First Preview 06.10.26 • Opening Night 06.18.26 • Closing Date 08.29.26
Scenic Design - Ellen Kirk
Costume Design - Ellen Kirk
Lighting Design - John Gunning
Production Stage Manager - Anika Kidd
2025-2026 Broadway Scorecards
We’re excited to launch our new Broadway Scorecards series for the 2025–2026 season. These scorecards track the Designers, Associates, and Assistants working across Broadway productions — highlighting the creative professionals behind this season’s shows and the productions they helped bring to life.
Each week, we’ll spotlight a different design discipline and recognize the artists whose work shaped the Broadway season.
In today’s newsletter, the focus is Hair, Wig and Makeup.
This season, J. Jared Janas led the field with credits on four Broadway productions each — the highest total of any Hair and Wig designer during the 2025–2026 season.
J. Jared Janas and Katie Gell also led the field with credits on four Broadway Productions each - the highest total of any Makeup designer during the 2025-26 season.
The leading Associate Hair and Wig Designer is Mary Lee with two Broadway show credits.
Ellyn Miller, Tony Lauro, Cassie Williams and Veli “Vee” Sadiku each had one Broadway show credit as Associate Makeup Designer.
Next week we are highlighting Prop Designers, Associates and Assistants!
That’s it for this week.
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The Tech Table Team
