2026 Tony Awards VIP Tickets
It’s fantastic that there are so many Broadway shows being produced lately because it makes the Tony Awards even better! This glamorous event might just be our personal favorite award show. Every year, more than 30 diverse productions vie for more than two dozen awards ranging from Best New Musical to Best Choreography. Although the Tonys are celebrating 80 years, they haven’t lost their glamour with age. Like any great Broadway star, they know how to celebrate in style. We can’t wait to tell you more about our VIP Tony Awards tickets and after-party passes for 2026.
When Are the 2026 Tony Awards?
The 79th Annual Tony Awards are going down on Sunday, June 7, 2026, in never bored or sleepy New York City. This legendary award show is returning to its traditional home at the Radio City Music Hall for the second consecutive year. Naturally, VIP Concierge is standing by with VIP Tony tickets for yourself and whoever you decide to bring along for the ride and all the fun of not just the award show, but the parties! And these aren’t just neighborhood get-togethers.
The parties going down during the Tony Awards are legendary for being the coolest of the cool. They’re typically only for those with industry connections and sway. That’s just one more reason to work with VIP Concierge. You get sway by the bunch, like bananas, when you work with us. Who else can set you up with tickets to the biggest and best award show dedicated to live theater? [Cue the crickets, or maybe it should be honking taxi horns.] New York also serves up at hearty dose of nightlife whether you plan on clubbing your way through Midtown or seeing world-class jazz in Lower Manhattan.
What Are the Tony Awards?
The Tony awards are one of the big four award shows. They’re comparable to the Emmys® for achievements in television, the Grammys® for songwriting and musical performances and the Oscars®, which recognize the year’s greatest films. Just a handful of stars have been able to win one of each! EGOT winners include all-time greats like Rita Moreno, Mel Brooks, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice and Elton John, plus current champions like John Legend, Jennifer Hudson and Viola Davis.
Why are they called the Tony awards anyway? Did you know the award is officially known as the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, but they almost always go by their nickname. Tonys are handed out jointly by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, two theater associations that advocate for the industry and its members. The award was first conceived in 1947, and it’s been an annual tradition in New York City ever (*evah*) since.
Nominations, Revivals, Award-Winning Plays and More
Broadway’s cool because it welcomes the old, the new, the newly old and the oldly new. In other words, revivals! Plays that were hot in the past like Ragtime and Rocky Horror are dug out of the storage locker, dusted off, recast and reborn — usually to the kind of accolades that new films or songs get. New plays are treated like treasure maps. And stage versions of books and films invariably find the path to the great white way.
Theater stays the same by changing. Every show is different, and every night brings something new. This is true on Broadway and during the industry’s biggest award show. Like any Broadway fan, we get excited about the long list of nominees. And we love to speculate about who will be chosen for their work over the 2025-2026 season. If you really want to nerd out, check out Broadway Best Friend’s “Way Too Early Tony Predictions” on YouTube! Or view the official list of nominees on Variety or The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition to honoring hard-working Broadway stars, the Tonys have recognized Hollywood stalwarts like Jessica Lange, Billy Crystal, Hugh Jackman and Sam Rockwell. Innovators like Joel Gray and John Kander have been honored for their career achievements. Don’t you wish you could have been there to see these iconic moments?
2026 Tony Award Nominees
The Tony Awards honor the year’s best plays, musicals and revivals, but fans are treated to a whole lot more. Awards are presented by A-list stars that represent a who’s who of the stage and screen. If you attend the Tony Awards or one of the banging after-parties, you’re sure to see some of the biggest multi-talented actors, singers and dancers as well as the writers, directors and producers who make these spectacular productions possible. Let’s take a quick look at this year’s crop of nominees, who were announced in early May.
- The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! lead the pack with 12 nominations each. Yes, The Lost Boys is a musical stage adaptation of the 1987 cult classic. Meanwhile Schmigadoon! is a Golden Age musical parody based on an Apple TV series about a couple trapped in a magical town.
- Controversial writer Scott Rudin scored not one but two nominations for best play and best revival play for Little Bear Ridge Road and Death of a Salesman, starring Nathan Lane.
- Things didn’t go so well for superstars Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit. Despite sizzling hot ticket sales for Chess, the ABBA/Tim Rice rock opera, both actors failed to score nominations. However, the show did score several nominations for Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading or Featured Role in a Musical and even nods for Best Lighting and Best Orchestration.
- Alden Ehrenreich surprised the crowd with a Tony nomination for his debut Broadway role in Becky Shaw, proving that even an actor best known for playing a young Hans Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story has the chops needed to win off the screen.
- Other productions that were snubbed include Beaches, The Musical and Proof. The Obama-backed revival of David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play failed to score a single nomination despite an all-star cast that included Don Cheadle, Ayo Edebiri and Kara Young, plus Hamilton director Thomas Kail.
- Laurie Metcalf is having a mixed year, earning her seventh Tony nomination for her portrayal of Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman. However, she was snubbed for her role as the cantankerous aunt in Little Bear Ridge Road. We would be happy with just one Tony nomination, just sayin’.
- In other news, the 64-member Nominating Committee proved that Broadway still loves a revival. Rocky Horror Show reeled in nine nominations, including nods for Best Musical Revival, Best Actor and Best Actress, plus Best Featured Actress for SNL alum Rachel Dratch. The committee also loved the show’s lighting, choreography, sound and costumes! Go figure.
- Best play nominees include Giant, Liberation, The Balusters and Little Bear Ridge Road, while Best Musical contenders include Titaníque, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), Schmigadoon! and The Lost Boys.
This list of nominees proves just how exciting and unpredictable the Tony Awards are, as a seasoned stage actor or a newcomer making your Broadway debut. There is no tellin’ what’s going to happen, but you could be among the first to find out when you score your 2026 Tony Awards tickets from VIP Concierge.
What Happened at the 2025 Tony Awards
- In 2025, Tonys were handed out acting greats like Bryan Cranston, Keanu Reeves, Lea Michele, Jean Smart, Sara Paulson, and Adam Lambert.
- Host Cynthia Erivo and singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles wowed the crowd with a duet of “Tomorrow.” Plus, fans enjoyed over a dozen other stupendous live performances.
- The award show featured the ensemble from Pirates! The Penzance Musical and the Buena Vista Social Club as well as selections from Death Becomes Her, Just in Time and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard. Audra McDonald even sang “Rose’s Turn” from Gypsy, despite being snubbed at trophy time.
- Highlights of the most recent ceremony include Branden Jacob-Jenkins’ Purpose winning Best Play after he scored Best Revival just two years earlier. Maybe Happy Ending won six Tonys, including Best Musical, while Death Becomes Her won just one of it’s 10 nominations, showing just how capricious this award show can be.
Award Categories
If you attend the Tony Awards with VIP tickets, you’ll have a chance to see trophies handed out in over 20 categories, including:
- Best Play
- Best Musical
- Best Revival
- Best Performance
- Best Direction
- Best Score
- Best Design, Lighting and Decor
- Best Choreography
After-Party Passes for the Tonys
After the award show, the fun heats up with celebrity-hosted bashes that go strong until the wee, small hours of the morning. In New York, you know they’re going to have amazing people and incredible eats. From smash burgers and Frosted Flakes to paella and ethnic specialties, the food at these parties is as diverse as the attendees.
At past parties, our VIPs have enjoyed champagne and fresh fruit while rocking out to the Spice Girls and hanging out with celebrities like Josh Groban, Michelle Williams, Ben Platt and Alex Newell. We can get you and your crew into some of the hottest (and coolest) Tony after-parties. Make sure to sign up for our email list to receive updates when tickets drop!
Book Your VIP Tickets to the 79th Annual Tony Awards
Since the full lineup of nominees and celebrity guests is too numerous to list, we’ll conclude by bringing you the good news that we have VIP tickets to the 2026 Tony Awards. Typically, we have a selection of mid-section mezzanine tickets that will put you front and center at one of New York City’s most storied venues. This year, we also have floor/orchestra seats, and most packages include access to an extra-special pre-show party. We also have passes to the star-studded after-parties that you really, really want. Check out our selection of tickets online, or give us a call to learn more about our VIP ticket options. Make sure to check out our seating chart to select the best option for your budget!
Don’t delay. Pick up a pair or two before they sell out! Someone else is probably watching the calendar too. Get your tickets to the Tony Awards and any other plays that you’d like to see on or off Broadway before that other person buys them all. We’d hate to see that happen to you. That would be a tragedy worthy of Aeschylus or Arthur Miller. Get in touch with VIP Concierge, and be there for the Tony Awards’ 79th edition!
