How to Watch 2026 Tony Award Nominees at Home: THE LOST BOYS, SCHMIGADOON! & More
Learn more about the screen versions of these Tony nominated titles.
The nominations are here for the 2026 Tony Awards, with The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! leading with 12 nods each. In addition to the top two nominees, a surprisingly high number of titles this year have an onscreen counterpart.
Several have the distinction of being based on movies or television shows. The Lost Boys is a musical adaptation of the 1987 cult classic film, while Schmigadoon! brings to the stage the Apple TV series, a show that already borrowed heavily from musical theater traditions. Likewise, Dog Day Afternoon is based on the classic 1975 film with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
Others, like the Arthur Miller classic Death of a Salesman, along with newer titles like Bug and Marjorie Prime, began their life as plays, but later came to the screen in film adaptations.
Below is a roundup of the screen versions of these Tony nominees, the majority of which can be streamed from the comfort of your own home.
The Lost Boys (12 Nominations)
The 12-time Tony-nominated show The Lost Boys is among the latest entries in a series of musical adaptations of 1980s movies, which also include Beetlejuice and Back to the Future.
The original 1987 movie is a supernatural horror-comedy directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Richard Donner. The film follows two teenage brothers who move with their divorced mother to the fictional town of Santa Carla, California, only to discover that the town is a haven for vampires.
A pillar of teenage vampiric media, the film spawned a franchise that included two sequels and two comic book series, also paving the way for future vampire titles like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, and Twilight.
The movie is available to rent or purchase on digital platforms and is also available on physical media from Warner Home Video.
Schmigadoon! (12 Nominations)
Of all the titles in the screen-to-stage pipeline, Schmigadoon! was perhaps the most obvious of the bunch. The Apple TV series is a love letter to musicals, with each episode poking fun at tried-and-true conventions of the medium via an array of songs that serve as thinly-veiled pastiches of periods in musical theater history.
Season one of Schmigadoon! parodied Golden Age musicals, with Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key starring as a couple on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship, before discovering a magical town living in a 1940s musical. The season referenced Brigadoon, Carousel, The Music Man, and more.
The second season took a darker turn, now set in the world of musicals from the '60s and '70s, and parodying musicals like Chicago, Cabaret, Annie, Oliver!, Sweeney Todd, Hair, and Godspell, among others.
The stage musical only adapts the first season, but both are streaming on Apple TV. Take a look back at our favorite moments from the Apple series in a retrospective here.
Ragtime (11 Nominations)
Since returning to Broadway this past year, the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Ragtime has been met with near-universal acclaim and accolades, including its 11 Tony nominations. However, this musical version, written by Terrence McNally and songwriters Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, was not the first adaptation of the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow.
It was first dramatized for the screen in the 1981 film directed by Miloš Forman. Like the later musical, the plot is a fictionalized look at the real-life history of New York City in the early 20th century. The original story offers a kaleidoscopic view of the city and is intertwined with historical figures like Booker T. Washington, Evelyn Nesbit, and Harry Houdini.
The cast included stage and screen star Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn, earning her an Academy Award nomination for her performance. Mandy Patinkin, fresh off his Tony Award-winning performance in Evita, took on the role of Tateh.
Upon its release in November 1981, it received largely positive reviews and went on to receive eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Screenplay. With the show once again on the New York stage, it is a great time to revisit the film, which is available to watch digitally.
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (9 Nominations)
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is back on Broadway in a new production helmed by Joe Mantello. The acclaimed director has received praise for his inventive staging of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, with the production itself receiving 9 Tony nominations, including Best Revival for a Play.
For those at home, there is no lack of screen versions to watch of the play. Newcomers could do worse than starting with the 1966 TV version, which also served as Nathan Lane's introduction to the material at ten years old. This CBS presentation features Lee J. Cobb reprising his role of Willy Loman from the original production—a performance that won him praise both onstage and on screen.
Other screen adaptations include the acclaimed 1951 feature film adaptation of the play with Fredrick March as Willy and the 1985 TV version with Dustin Hoffman, who portrayed the leading character in the play's second Broadway revival. A recording of the 1999 Broadway revival with Brian Dennehy is also available.
Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show (9 Nominations)
It's time to do the Time Warp... at home! Though the cult favorite began on the stage, most people were first introduced to the strange journey of Brad and Janet with the 1975 film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Though it was not successful during its initial run, it has since gone on to become a cult classic, with annual screenings taking place all over the world during Halloween.
Based on the stage musical by Richard O’Brien, the beloved movie stars Tim Curry as the devious and fabulous Frank-N-Furter; Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon as everybody's favorite nerdy couple, Brad and Janet; Meatloaf as ex-delivery boy Eddie, who dates a groupie, Columbia, played by Nell Campbell; and Patricia Quinn as Magenta, servant to Riff Raff, played by creator O'Brien.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was remade for television in 2016, now with the subtitle “Let's Do the Time Warp Again.” The cast for this version featured Victoria Justice and Adam Lambert, along with Broadway’s Ryan McCartan, Annaleigh Ashford, Reeve Carney, Ben Vereen, and Laverne Cox as Frank-N-Furter. Original cast member Tim Curry served as the Narrator and the Criminologist. Both filmed versions are available to rent or purchase on various streaming services
Cats: The Jellicle Ball (9 Nominations)
One of the most successful stage musicals of all time, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats is available in two film versions, with widely varying results. The 1998 production, which premiered on PBS Great Performances, aimed to be a fairly faithful (albeit abridged) recreation of the original stage musical. Filmed at London's Adelphi Theatre, the cast featured several past members of various productions, including Elaine Paige, Susan Jane Tanner, and Ken Page.
In what is largely considered to be nothing short of a cinematic disaster (an opinion shared by Webber himself), a proper film version was released in 2019. Even a star-studded cast—including Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba, Ian McKellen, Taylor Swift, and Rebel Wilson—couldn't save Tom Hooper's ill-fated adaptation, which encountered many problems in post-production and featured unsettling visual effects that turned off audiences.
For those who find themselves in need of a Cats fix but are unable to catch the acclaimed ballroom-inspired revival live, the 2019 film is currently available to stream on Netflix, with the 1998 version available to rent.
Chess (5 Nominations)
In May 2008, an ambitious concert production of the musical Chess was staged at London's Royal Albert Hall. The presentation of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' cult musical featured a cast of musical theater stars, including Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, and Josh Groban, years before his Broadway debut.
Kerry Ellis, Clarke Peters, and David Bedella rounded out the cast, with Marti Pellow as the Arbiter. Also featured is the 50-piece City of London Philharmonic, led by David Firman, and the 100-voice West End Chorus. Though the concert took place across only two days, it was fortunately saved for posterity via an official recording that later aired on PBS.
The plot centers on a romantic triangle between two chess players in a World Chess Championship, and the woman who manages one and falls in love with the other. Groban sings the Russian player, Anatoly, with Pascal as the American Freddie, and Menzel as Florence. Directed for telecast by David Horn with staging by Hugh Wooldridge, the concert version is available to purchase on Apple TV.
Bug (4 Nominations)
The 2026 production of Bug marked the Broadway premiere of the play by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts. Having first premiered in London in 1996, the play went on to have a life on the stage, with further productions in Chicago, Off-Broadway, and at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Perhaps surprisingly, it also made its way to the screen in 2006.
The plot of Bug unfolds in a seedy Oklahoma motel room and centers on an unexpected and intense love affair between a lonely waitress and a mysterious drifter. As the connection develops, so does a shared paranoia, which begins to spin out of control as paranoia, delusion, and conspiracy replace the bounds of reality.
The film adaptation was helmed by William Friedkin, best known for 1973's The Exorcist, and adapted for the screen by Letts. Premiering at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, the movie debuted in theaters in 2007 to largely positive reviews. The cast includes Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon (who reprised his off-Broadway role), Lynn Collins, Brían F. O'Byrne, and Harry Connick Jr. The movie is currently available to stream on Prime Video.
Dog Day Afternoon (3 Nominations)
Dog Day Afternoon is the new play adaptation of the 1975 Oscar-winning film of the same name. Directed by two-time Olivier Award winner Rupert Goold, the production stars Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach and has been recognized for its design elements with 3 Tony nominations.
The play, like the original film, is based on the real-life story of two amateur bank robbers. On a summer day in 1972, an attempt to rob a bank in Brooklyn goes wrong, and before long, the failed heist turns into chaos that ignites the city as they follow the actions of a man on the edge.
Directed by Sidney Lumet, the movie stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick, Charles Durning, Carol Kane, Penny Allen and Sully Boyer Dog Day Afternoon was nominated for six Academy Awards, including an acting nod for Pacino. In 2009, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. The movie is available to rent digitally.
Every Brilliant Thing (2 Nominations)
Before coming to Broadway with Daniel Radcliffe, Duncan MacMillan's Every Brilliant Thing had a long life on stages across the world. Early stagings of the solo show were performed at the Ludlow Fringe Festival in Great Britain in 2013 and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014. It went on to run for 16 weeks at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York City, which was filmed for HBO.
Starring British comedian Jonny Donahoe, the show traces the story of a young boy who attempts to cure his mother's depression by creating a list of the best things in the world. The list grows as he progresses from childhood ("Ice Cream") and adolescence ("Star Trek"), to college ("Surprises") and marriage ("Falling in Love").
Donahoe received a Drama Desk Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Solo Performance for his performance, as well as a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Show. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato produce and direct the film version, which is available to stream on HBO Max.
The Fear of 13 (2 Nominations)
Acclaimed actors Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson are currently making their Broadway debuts in The Fear of 13, Lindsey Ferrentino's play based on the true story of Nick Yarris. However, before debuting on the stage at London's Donmar Warehouse in 2024, Nick's story was told in the 2015 documentary of the same name.
Directed by David Sington, The Fear of 13 film, like the play, centers on Nick Yarris, who spent more than two decades on death row for a murder he insists he did not commit. The documentary offers a portrait of Nick, recounting the story of his arrest from his perspective through monologue, as well as footage.
The stage play highlights Nick's relationship with a prison volunteer named Jackie (Thompson), with their conversations shining a light on his singular experience. The West End production was nominated for two Olivier Awards, including Best New Play and Best Actor for Brody. It is nominated for Best Lighting and Sound Designs at the 2026 Tonys.
Marjorie Prime (2 Nominations)
Before coming to Broadway this season, Marjorie Prime already had respected runs on several prestigious stages, including Los Angeles's Mark Taper Forum and New York's Playwrights Horizons. Both of those productions featured stage and screen star Lois Smith as the title character, a role which she reprised in the 2017 film adaptation.
The story follows the elderly Marjorie, who spends her final, ailing days with a computerized version of her deceased husband. With the intent to recount their life together, Marjorie's "Prime" relies on the information from her and her kin to develop a more complex understanding of his history.
Written by Jordan Harrison, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for the play, Marjoire Prime, examines memory, aging, and artificial intelligence, and how they intersect as one looks back on their life. For the film, director and screenwriter Michael Almereyda selected an all-star cast, including Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, and Tim Robbins. It is available to stream for free on Tubi.
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