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The , honoring the best in plays and musicals on Broadway, took place on Sunday. And the 2025 awards ceremony came after a record-breaking season.
Broadway's biggest night capped the highest-grossing Broadway season in recorded history, , with high ticket prices for plays including "Othello" and "Good Night, and Good Luck" helping drive nearly $2 billion in gross ticket sales.
The 2024-25 season was also the second best attended season in recorded history. Overall, about 14.7 million audience members bought tickets, the agency said. Forty-three productions, including 21 musicals, 21 plays and one special engagement, raised their curtains, according to the Broadway League.
Read on for more information about this year's ceremony and how to watch a replay.
The Tony Awards, at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, were held Sunday, June 8, at 8 p.m. ET.
The Tony Awards can be for Essential subscribers starting on Monday, June 9, the day after the ceremony.
The Tony Awards were broadcast live Sunday night on CBS television stations and streamed live for with SHOWTIME subscribers. Before the main show, and hosted "The Tony Awards: Act One" on the free streaming television service Pluto TV.
Fifteen musicals and 14 plays were across 26 competitive categories at the Tony Awards.
See a list of here.
Several nominees were making history. "Yellow Face" star was the first Asian actor to be nominated for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. Kara Young, a Tony nominee and winner this year for "Purpose," was the first Black actor to be nominated four years in a row in any category. Last year, Young received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
"I love the fact that we are being recognized as Asian Americans on Broadway, and I think it's really important for where we are in our society, especially today, and yet I yearn for the day when it's so commonplace and understood that anyone of any race or religion or gender identification can be nominated for these things," Kim . "I've always wanted to play Henry V, and you know we can always dream. And those dreams are becoming reality now."
"Oh, Mary!" star and creator was the first non-binary nominee and winner for Best Leading Actor in a Play. And "English" performers Tala Ashe and Marjan Neshat have become the first Middle Eastern actors to be nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Ashe recently told TheNews New York.
Meanwhile, has set a new bar: This year, she received her 11th Tony Award nomination for her " — the most ever for a performer. She has been awarded in every acting category at least once. She currently shares the record for a performer with the most Tony Award wins with Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury.
"" star Cynthia Erivo . She teased her plans for the show during an last week on "CBS Mornings," promising multiple costume changes throughout the show.
Erivo said hosting the Tony Awards is "a beautiful full circle moment" in her career. She received a Tony Award for her performance in "" in 2016, which led to more career opportunities, including her starring role in "Wicked."
"Because of Broadway and because of the work that we did in 'The Color Purple,' I get to sit with you now where I am and have done all the things that I've done since then," Erivo said.
Erivo, as is typical of the Tony Awards, led the opening number to begin the show.
The five shows nominated for Best Musical — "," "Dead Outlaw," "," "" and "Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical" — all had performances, along with the four shows nominated for Best Revival of a Musical — "Floyd Collins," "," "." and "."
Members of the original cast of the smash hit "Hamilton" with a medley to celebrate the musical's 10th anniversary on Broadway.
The Tony Awards saw some of Broadway's biggest names give awards and introduce performances. Pop star Adam Lambert, TikTok influencer Charli D'Amelio, and media mogul Oprah Winfrey were among the biggest names presenting at the awards.
Actors Samuel Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Bryan Cranston, Jean Smart, Katie Holmes and Keanu Reeves — all of whom have recently appeared, or are set to appear, in Broadway shows — were also among the presenters. Former Tony hosts and presented awards as well.
