The nominees for the 2026 Tony Awards were announced this afternoon and they feature a number of productions that will be familiar to West End audiences, with many having already been nominated and winners of Olivier Awards.
Can I see 2026 Tony Award nominees in the West End?
One of this year’s Best Musical nominees is Titaníque. This camp musical fantasia rewrites the hit film Titanic, with Céline Dion insisting she was on board the famous voyage – and it only gets crazier from there.
The show started out in LA, before heading Off-Broadway and then coming into the West End, where it won the Noël Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play at the Olivier Awards 2025. The show is now performing in both London and New York. Layton Williams, who won the Olivier for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his role as the Iceberg, is currently reprising the role on Broadway and has been nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical.
Titaníque is currently booking until August in the West End.
Cats: The Jellicle Ball is the a radical reimagination of the Andrew Lloyd Webber hit musical that was first staged in 1981. While The Jellicle Ball doesn’t have current plans to come to London, the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is staging their own reimagined version of Cats from July, directed and choreographed by artistic director Drew McOnie.
What other transfers from the West End have been nominated for Tony Awards?
Just like at the Olivier Awards 2025, two of the hottest plays at this year’s Tony Awards are Mark Rosenblatt‘s original play Giant and Robert Icke‘s adaptation of the Greek tragedy Oedipus.
In Giant, John Lithgow plays the children’s author Roald Dahl during a period that shook his legacy. Lithgow and the play itself won Olivier Awards, with both now being nominated for Tony Awards. The show has further nominations for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Aya Cash (Romola Garai was nominated for the same role at the Oliviers, losing out to herself in The Years) and Best Direction of a Play for Nicholas Hytner.
Oedipus, meanwhile, has seven nominations, including Best Revival which it won at the Olivier Awards 2025. Lesley Manville, who won Best Actress, has been nominated alongside Mark Strong in the lead role, Best Scenic Design, Lighting Design, Sound Design and Direction of a Play.
From this year’s cohort of Olivier Award winners and nominees, James Graham‘s Punch has been had a nomination for Will Harrison in the lead role. In a unique move, the play was staged simultaneously in the West End and on Broadway, meaning none of the cast could transfer their roles. David Shields, who played the same role as Harrison, was also nominated for Best Actor, while Julie Hesmondhalgh won Best Actress in a Supporting Role winner and Graham won Best New Play.
Every Brilliant Thing, which was which was nominated for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play in this year’s Oliviers, transferred to Broadway and has been nominated for Best Revival of a Play. Danielle Radcliffe has also been nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role of a Play.
What previous Tony Award winners are still on in London?
There are a number of long-running shows on in London that won a Tony Award before crossing the pond to join us in the West End.
These include a number of shows that did the double by winning both of theatre’s most prestigious awards. Long-runner Phantom Of The Opera won the Best New Musical Olivier Award in 1986 before sweeping seven Tonys, including Best Musical, in 1988. Phantom is joined by The Book Of Mormon and Hamilton as winners of both Best New Musical awards.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, meanwhile, won the Best New Play Olivier Award in 2017 and the Best Play Tony Award the following year. It is in New York that the play was revised during the 2020 lockdown and staged as a one-part version. The play is still in two parts in London, until 6 October, after which it will evolve into the one-part version.
Other Tony Award Best Musical winners you can see in the West End include Les Misérables, Disney’s The Lion King, The Producers, Avenue Q, Kinky Boots, Hadestown and Moulin Rouge, while Six won the Best Original Score.
Nominees in full
Best play
The Balusters
Giant
Liberation
Little Bear Ridge Road
Best musical
The Lost Boys
Schmigadoon!
Titanique
Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Best revival of a play
Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman
Becky Shaw
Every Brilliant Thing
Fallen Angels
Oedipus
Best revival of a musical
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Ragtime
Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Best book of a musical
David Hornsby and Chris Hoch, The Lost Boys
Cinco Paul, Schmigadoon!
Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousoulí and Tye Blue, Titanique
Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Best original score (music and/or lyrics) written for the theatre
Caroline Shaw, Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman
Steve Bargonetti, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come And Gone
The Rescues, The Lost Boys
Cinco Paul, Schmigadoon!
Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play
Will Harrison, Punch
Nathan Lane, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
John Lithgow, Giant
Daniel Radcliffe, Every Brilliant Thing
Mark Strong, Oedipus
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play
Rose Byrne, Fallen Angels
Carrie Coon, Bug
Susannah Flood, Liberation
Lesley Manville, Oedipus
Kelli O’Hara, Fallen Angels
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical
Nicholas Christopher, Chess
Luke Evans, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Joshua Henry, Ragtime
Sam Tutty, Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Brandon Uranowitz, Ragtime
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical
Sara Chase, Schmigadoon!
Stephanie Hsu, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Caissie Levy, Ragtime
Marla Mindelle, Titanique
Christiani Pitts, Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play
Christopher Abbott, Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman
Danny Burstein, Marjorie Prime
Brandon J Dirden, Waiting For Godot
Alden Ehrenreich, Becky Shaw
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come And Gone
Richard Thomas, The Balusters
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play
Betsy Aidem, Liberation
Marylouise Burke, The Balusters
Aya Cash, Giant
Laurie Metcalf, Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman
June Squibb, Marjorie Prime
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical
Ali Louis Bourzgui, The Lost Boys
André De Shields, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Bryce Pinkham, Chess
Ben Levi Ross, Ragtime
Layton Williams, Titanique
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical
Shoshanna Bean, The Lost Boys
Hannah Cruz, Chess
Rachel Dratch, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Ana Gasteyer, Schmigadoon!
Nichelle Lewis, Ragtime
Best scenic design of a play
Hildegard Becthler, Oedipus
Takeshi Kata, Bug
David Korins, Dog Day Afternoon
Chloe Lamford, Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman
David Rockwell, Fallen Angel
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
Dane Laffrey, The Lost Boys
Scott Pask, Schmigadoon!
Best costume design of a play
Brenda Abbandandolo, Dog Day Afternoon
Qween Jean, Liberation
Jeff Mahshie, Fallen Angels
Emilio Sosa, The Balusters
Paul Tazewell, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come And Gone
Best costume design of a musical
Linda Cho, Ragtime
Linda Cho, Schmigadoon!
Qween Jean, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Ryan Park, The Lost Boys
David I Reynoso, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
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
Jack Knowles, Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman
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
Jen Schriever and Michael Arden, The Lost Boys
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
Mikaal Sulaiman, Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman
Best sound design of a musical
Kai Harada, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Kai Harada, Ragtime
Adam Fisher, The Lost Boys
Brian Ronan, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Walter Trarbach, Schmigadoon!
Best direction of a play
Nicholas Hytner, Giant
Robert Icke, Oedipus
Kenny Leon, The Balusters
Joe Montello, Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman
Whitney White, Liberation
Best direction of a musical
Michael Arden, The Lost Boys
Lear deBessonet, Ragtime
Christopher Gatelli, Schmigadoon!
Tim Jackson, Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Best choreography
Christopher Gatelli, Schmigadoon!
Ellenore Scott, Ragtime
Ani Taj, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show
Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant, The Lost Boys
Best orchestrations
Doug Besterman and Mike Morris, Schmigadoon!
Ethan Popp, Kyler England, Adrianne ’AG’ Gonzalez and Gabriel Mann, The Lost Boys
Lux Pyramid, Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Brian Usifer, Chess
Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Wilson, Trevor Holder and Doug Schadt, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
