78th Tony Awards

The 78th Tony Awards were held on June8, 2025, to recognize excellence in Broadway productions during the 2024–25 season. The ceremony took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and was broadcast on CBS, with streaming available on Paramount+ and Pluto TV. The show was hosted by Cynthia Erivo.
The musicals Death Becomes Her, Buena Vista Social Club, and Maybe Happy Ending led the field with ten nominations each. Maybe Happy Ending emerged as the night's most-awarded production, winning six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for Darren Criss. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play Purpose won Best Play.
Other top acting honors went to Nicole Scherzinger, Cole Escola, and Sarah Snook.

Ceremony information

streamed the pre-ceremony broadcast The Tony Awards: Act One, hosted by Darren Criss and Renée Elise Goldsberry. Brian Stokes Mitchell served as the announcer.
Cynthia Erivo served as host. Following the ceremony, NPR praised her comedy, the Associated Press described her as an "amiable host", and Deadline called her "absolutely flawless". Vulture praised her opening number, noting she had "a really smart strategy...: joking to a minimum, vocals on max ".
The ceremony opened with a brief sketch of Erivo walking from her dressing room to the stage, while various people advise her on what she should do for the opening number, before Oprah Winfrey advises her to be herself. Upon reaching the stage, Erivo sang "Sometimes All You Need Is a Song", an original piece written by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul which referenced various nominees. She was joined by the Broadway Inspirational Voices choir partway through the number.
Erivo and Sara Bareilles performed a duet of "Tomorrow" for the In Memoriam section of the ceremony. The original cast of Hamilton also performed a medley of eight songs from the show in honor of the musical's 10th anniversary, choosing to wear all-black rather than their original costumes. The closing number was an adapted version of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," with lyrics changed to reference events of the night.

Eligibility

The Tony Awards eligibility dates for the 2024–2025 Broadway season were April 29, 2024, through April 27, 2025. Productions were also required to meet all other eligibility criteria as set forth by the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League. There are 41 legitimate Broadway-eligible theaters in which a production must be performed in to attain eligibility for award consideration. Nominations for the 2025 Tony Awards were announced on May 1, 2025.
;Original plays

All In: Comedy About Love
Cult of Love
English
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Hills of California
Job
John Proctor Is the Villain
Left on Tenth
McNeal
Oh, Mary!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Purpose
The Roommate
Stranger Things: The First Shadow

;Original musicals

A Wonderful World
Boop! The Musical
Buena Vista Social Club
Dead Outlaw
Death Becomes Her
Just in Time
Maybe Happy Ending
Operation Mincemeat
Real Women Have Curves
Redwood
Smash
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Swept Away
Tammy Faye

;Play revivals

Eureka Day
Glengarry Glen Ross
Home
Othello
Thornton Wilder's Our Town
Romeo + Juliet
Yellow Face

;Musical revivals

Elf
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
The Last Five Years
Once Upon a Mattress
Pirates! The Penzance Musical
''Sunset Boulevard''
Winners and nominees

The nominees for the 78th Tony Awards were announced on May 1, 2025, at 8:30am EDT by Wendell Pierce and Sarah Paulson. The winners were announced on June 8, 2025. The ceremony was hosted by Cynthia Erivo. The awards were largely spread out across various shows, with no one show "sweeping" the awards. Vulture criticized the choice to exclude some awards from the main ceremony, including Best Book, Best Score and Harvey Fierstein's acceptance of the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Purpose, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, won Best Play. Jacobs-Jenkins had received Best Revival of a Play for his play Appropriate at the 77th Tony Awards. Maybe Happy Ending received six awards including Best Musical, while its director Michael Arden won Best Direction of a Musical and Darren Criss won Best Actor in a Musical for his role as Oliver, the first Asian-American man to do so. Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard won Best Revival of a Musical with Nicole Scherzinger winning Leading Actress in a Musical, the second Asian-American woman to do so. Paul Tazewell won Best Costume Design in a Musical for his work in Death Becomes Her. Actors who won on their Broadway debut included Sarah Snook who won Best Actress in a Play for her 26 roles in The Picture of Dorian Gray, most notably Dorian Gray, and Jak Malone, who won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role in Operation Mincemeat as Hester Leggatt.
Other winners included Cole Escola who won Best Actor in a Play for their role in Oh, Mary! as Mary Todd Lincoln and Kara Young who won Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Purpose as Aziza Houston. Escola was the first non-binary actor to win the category, while Young became the first Black actor to win a Tony Award in two consecutive years. Francis Jue won Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his role in Yellow Face, and said in his acceptance speech that 20 years prior, "he was gifted his tuxedo from another Asian actor who wanted him to wear it to the Tonys". Jue was the second Asian-American man to win the category, the first being B.D. Wong for M. Butterfly in 1988.
In an upset to some critics, the revival of Gypsy, headed by Audra McDonald, who is the most awarded performer in Tony history, did not win a single award. Additionally, Death Becomes Her, which tied for most nominated with ten nominations, won only a single award for costuming.

Awards

Source:
‡ The award is presented to the producer of the musical or play.

Non-competitive awards

Those being recognized with non-competitive awards are below.

Accolade	Names
Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre	Harvey Fierstein
Isabelle Stevenson Award	Celia Keenan-Bolger
Special Tony Award	"The musicians who make up the band of Buena Vista Social Club
Special Tony Award	"The illusions and technical effects of Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre	Great Performances
Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre	New 42
Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre	New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre	Michael P. Price
Regional Theatre Tony Award	The Muny
Excellence in Theatre Education Award	Gary Edwin Robinson from Boys and Girls High School

Multiple nominations and awards

Productions with multiple nominations and awards

Individuals with multiple nominations and awards

Presenters and performers

Presenters

Names	Notes
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter	presented Best Actress in a Play
Michelle Williams	introduced Death Becomes Her
Danielle Brooks and Katie Holmes	presented Best Featured Actor in a Play
Julianne Hough	introduced Buena Vista Social Club
Charli D'Amelio and Adam Lambert	presented Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Cynthia Erivo	introduced Just in Time
Carrie Preston and Tom Felton	presented Best Featured Actress in a Play
Glenn Close	introduced Sunset Boulevard
Kristin Chenoweth and Rachel Bay Jones	presented Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Kelli O'Hara	introduced Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Ben Stiller	introduced nominees and presented Best Play
Lea Salonga	introduced Maybe Happy Ending
Jesse Eisenberg	introduced Floyd Collins
Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson Jackson	presented Best Revival of a Play
Cynthia Erivo	introduced the original cast of Hamilton
Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney	presented Best Director of a Play and Best Director of a Musical
Jean Smart and Sarah Paulson	presented Best Actor in a Play
Renée Elise Goldsberry	introduced Dead Outlaw
Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit	presented Best Revival of a Musical
Cecily Strong	introduced Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Auliʻi Cravalho	introduced Real Women Have Curves
Ariana DeBose	presented Best Actor in a Musical
Oprah Winfrey	presented Best Actress in a Musical
Lin-Manuel Miranda	presented Best Musical

Performances
The ceremony featured performances from 11 nominated musicals, along with four additional performances.

Names	Song
Cynthia Erivo and Broadway Inspirational Voices	"Sometimes All You Need Is a Song"
Megan Hilty from Death Becomes Her	"For the Gaze"
The ensemble of Buena Vista Social Club	"Candela"
Jonathan Groff from Just in Time	"Mack the Knife" / "That's All" / "Once in a Lifetime"
Nicole Scherzinger from Sunset Boulevard	"As If We Never Said Goodbye"
The ensemble of Pirates! The Penzance Musical	"The Sail the Ocean Blues"
Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen from Maybe Happy Ending	"Chasing Fireflies" / "Never Fly Away"
The ensemble of Floyd Collins	"The Ballad of Floyd Collins" / "The Call"
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo Renée Elise Goldsberry, Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Anthony Ramos, Jonathan Groff, Ariana DeBose, and the original ensemble of Hamilton	"Non-Stop" / "My Shot" / "The Schuyler Sisters" / "Guns and Ships" / "You'll Be Back" / "Yorktown " / "The Room Where It Happens" / "History Has Its Eyes on You"
Sara Bareilles and Cynthia Erivo	"Tomorrow"
The ensemble of Dead Outlaw	"Ballad" / "Dead"
Audra McDonald from Gypsy	"Rose's Turn"
The ensemble of Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical	"Born to Lead"
The ensemble of Real Women Have Curves	"Jugglin'"
Cynthia Erivo	"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"