At the 2025 Tony Awards, Eureka Day, Maybe Happy Ending, Purpose, and Sunset Boulevard won the top honors for best musical, best play (surprise), best musical revival, and best play revival, respectively. Sarah Snook from The Picture of Dorian Gray, Cole Escola from Oh, Mary!, Darren Criss from Maybe Happy Ending, and Nicole Scherzinger from Sunset Blvd. were also honored with the lead acting awards for plays (Snook and Escola) and musicals (Criss and Scherzinger) during the Cynthia Erivo-hosted presentation.
Performances Featured
The aforementioned nominated musicals, as well as Dead Outlaw, Floyd Collins, Gypsy, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, and Pirates, were all performed at the Tony Awards! Real Women Have Curves, Just in Time, and The Penzance Musical. Broadway Inspirational Voices, the 2019 Tony Award winner, also made a special appearance.
Prominent Presenters
This year’s presenters included Goldsberry, Aaron Tveit, Adam Lambert, Alex Winter, Allison Janney, Ariana DeBose, Ben Stiller, Bryan Cranston, Carrie Preston, Charli D’Amelio, Danielle Brooks, Jean Smart, Jesse Eisenberg, Katie Holmes, Keanu Reeves, Kelli O’Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Michelle Williams, Oprah, Rachel Bay Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Sara Bareilles, Sarah Paulson, Rachel Bay Jones, Rachel Bay Jones, Rachel Bay Jones, Sarah Paulson, and Rachel Bay Jones.
Special Awards and Honors
During the preshow, Celia Keenan-Bolger accepted the 2025 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for advocacy work via the arts, and Harvey Fierstein was given a lifetime achievement award.
Special Tony Awards
Great Performances, Michael Price, New 42, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts were all awarded the 2025 Tony Awards for Excellence in the Theater.
The band in Buena Vista Social Club and the technical effects and illusions crew at Stranger Things: The First Shadow both received special Tony awards.
Organizers
The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing present the Tony Awards.
Tony Awards 2025 – Complete List
Best Play:
English, The Hills of California, John Proctor is the Villain, Oh, Mary!, Purpose
Best Musical:
Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, Maybe Happy Ending, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Best Revival of a Play:
Eureka Day, Romeo + Juliet, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Yellow Face
Best Revival of a Musical:
Floyd Collins, Gypsy, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Sunset Blvd
Best Book of a Musical:
Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, Maybe Happy Ending, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre:
Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, Maybe Happy Ending, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play:
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck; Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!, Jon Michael Hill, Purpose; Daniel Dae Kim, Yellow Face; Harry Lennix, Purpose; Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play:
Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California; Mia Farrow, The Roommate; LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose; Sadie Sink, John Proctor is the Villain; Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical:
Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending; Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw; Tom Francis, Sunset Blvd.; Jonathan Groff, Just in Time; James Monroe Iglehart, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical; Jeremy Jordan, Floyd Collins
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical:
Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her; Audra McDonald, Gypsy; Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical; Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Blvd.; Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play:
Glenn Davis, Purpose; Gabriel Ebert, John Proctor is the Villain; Francis Jue, Yellow Face; Bob Odenkirk, Glengarry Glen Ross; Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary!
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play:
Tala Ashe, English; Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day; Marjan Neshat, English; Fina Strazza, John Proctor is the Villain; Kara Young, Purpose
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical:
Brooks Ashmanskas, SMASH; Jeb Brown, Dead Outlaw; Danny Burstein, Gypsy; Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical; Taylor Trensch, Floyd Collins
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical:
Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club; Julia Knitel, Dead Outlaw; Gracie Lawrence, Just in Time; Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical; Joy Woods, Gypsy
Best Scenic Design of a Play:
English, The Hills of California, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Good Night, and Good Luck
Best Scenic Design of a Musical:
Swept Away, Maybe Happy Ending, Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, Just in Time
Best Costume Design of a Play:
Brenda Abbandandolo, Good Night, and Good Luck; Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray; Rob Howell, The Hills of California; Holly Pierson, Oh, Mary!; Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Best Costume Design of a Musical:
Dede Ayite, Buena Vista Social Club; Gregg Barnes, BOOP! The Musical; Clint Ramos, Maybe Happy Ending; Paul Tazewell, Death Becomes Her; Catherine Zuber, Just in Time
Best Lighting Design of a Play:
The Hills of California, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Good Night, and Good Luck, John Proctor is the Villain, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Lighting Design of a Musical:
Sunset Blvd., Buena Vista Social Club, Floyd Collins, Maybe Happy Ending, Death Becomes Her
Best Sound Design of a Play:
Stranger Things: The First Shadow, John Proctor is the Villain, Good Night, and Good Luck, The Hills of California, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Sound Design of a Musical:
Buena Vista Social Club, Sunset Blvd., Just in Time, Maybe Happy Ending, Floyd Collins
Best Direction of a Play:
Knud Adams, English; Sam Mendes, The Hills of California; Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary!; Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the Villain; Kip Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Direction of a Musical:
Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club; Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending; David Cromer, Dead Outlaw; Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her; Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd.
Best Choreography:
SMASH, Gypsy, Death Becomes Her, BOOP! The Musical, Buena Vista Social Club
Best Orchestrations:
Just in Time, Maybe Happy Ending, Floyd Collins, Buena Vista Social Club, Sunset Blvd.
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