Tony Awards 2022

The Tony Awards celebrate the best in theater and this year's celebration is returning to Radio City Music Hall for the first time since the pandemic.

"Company" *WINNER "SIX: The Musical" "MJ"

Paris and Prince Jackson -- the children of the late Michael Jackson -- honored their father Sunday during the 2022 Tony Awards.

That’s why we are so incredibly honored to introduce the night’s first nominee for best musical, ‘MJ,’ which, using many of his iconic hits, looks at the complexities and brilliance of our father’s process.” It’s an accomplishment.” “And who are we to disagree?”

While the Pulitzer Prize-winning Strange Loop, which went into the night with a leading 11 nominations, only took home two awards, those two prizes were for ...

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play And while we have not solved all of our problems, I feel like the phrase ‘Great White Way’ is becoming more of a nickname as opposed to a how-to guide.” The gender-swapped revival of Company also took home five Tonys on a night when late composer Stephen Sondheim was also celebrated. Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical “I’m really passionate about this because I was an understudy.” The awards kicked off with Darren Criss and Julianne Hough hosting Tony Awards: Act One on Paramount+, where trophies were presented to creative and design team members. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play With the Tony, Jennifer Hudson has achieved EGOT status.

Broadway transfers of West End shows were out in front at this year's celebration of the best of New York theatre.

The show also won for sound design in a play. Attendees this year who were sitting in the orchestra section were not required to wear masks but PCR testing was mandatory. Joaquina Kalukango was also named best lead actress in a musical for Paradise Square. She thanked her parents for “sacrificing everything” and “all of the nameless ancestors who have suffered”. Angela Lansbury was given the lifetime achievement award for her long and storied career on stage. The Broadway transfer of Company, which originated in London’s West End, was named best revival of a musical. “This play was written as a hymn to the city of New York but, like the Lehman brothers themselves, our show started thousands of miles away,” said playwright Ben Power, who adapted the show from Italian novelist and playwright Stefano Massini. His version made its debut at London’s National Theatre in 2018.

Broadway's biggest night returned with starry tributes, teary speeches and one EGOT winner. Here are the 5 biggest moments you missed at the Tonys.

In her speech, a visibly emotional LuPone, 73, paid tribute to "all of the understudies across all of the stage in New York," as well as "all of the COVID safety people." ... I think that was an isolated event, and I love and trust all of my theatergoing fans just as much as I did before this." "Well, thank you and welcome to the Tony Awards," Fishburne replied, doing a pitch-perfect voice of the Looney Tunes character as his horrified daughter looked on. “Ma, I made it,” said the 22-year-old newcomer, who danced up to the stage and broke out singing Jackson 5’s “Blame It On the Boogie” midway through his speech. Michael has been one of the pioneers for that, if not the biggest pioneer.” He was also asked what he’d say to Jackson if he had the chance. Ferguson, who plays the gay business manager of a newly out baseball player in the show, recalled his early days working in a theater gift shop in Times Square while accepting the award. "The great thing about Patti is that you never know what's gonna happen. You taught and showed me what a strong Black woman is and what it means to raise a strong Black man. "I'll just say, you don't see that coming, do you?" A number of musicals delivered standout performances that are guaranteed to sell tickets: Joaquina Kalukango, a newly crowned Tony winner for best actress in a musical, blew the roof off Radio City with her ferociously emotional "Let It Burn" from "Paradise Square," which got an immediate standing ovation from the audience. "I need someone to do a post-show interview with (her)," @jessemermell added. Meanwhile, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Strange Loop,” about a young Black gay playwright, picked up awards for best musical and best book.

Paris Jackson hugged actor Myles Frost, who stars as her dad Michael Jackson in Broadway's MJ.

Michael went from child star to chart-topping King of Pop, with hits like "Beat It" and "Billie Jean." He was arrested on charges of child molestation back in 2003, though he was acquitted of those charges in 2005. But the primary focus of our show has always been focusing on Michael's creative process." In an April 2019 interview with The New York Times, Wheeldon said about writing the musical at the time, "We're sensitive to what's going on and we'll see whether it works into the show or not. Prince said, "A lot of people seem to think our dad changed popular music forever — and who are we to disagree? He kept saying, 'Wow,' and talking about how much he loved the show, loved the energy — even loved the logo," the source shared at the time. Paris also posed for photos with Prince, 25, on the red carpet ahead of the ceremony.

Company – WINNER! The Music Man. Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play. Simon Russell Beale, The Lehman Trilogy – WINNER! Adam Godley, The ...

The evening will feature performances by Tony Award-nominated musicals, including A Strange Loop, Company, Girl From the North Country, MJ, Mr. Saturday Night, ...

Directly before the show, Darren Criss and Julianne Hough will co-host The Tony Awards: Act One at 7 p.m. eastern exclusively on Paramount+. DeBose's mom Gina, her partner Sue Makkoo and her best friend Jonathan Cobrda will all be in attendance to cheer her on. The Tony Awards are back!

We saw the likes of Vanessa Hudgens, Cynthia Erivo and Ruth Negga dip into the most recent couture collections, while Ariana DeBose worked on a custom look with ...

Taking on the task of hosting the show, DeBose wore various other outfits throughout the evening, including a purple tuxedo dress and a white gown. The actress looked beautiful in a black Pamella Roland gown, which featured off-the-shoulder detail and metallic embellishment. And, as with any award show, there was plenty of fashion to be enjoyed on the red carpet.

Tonight, the 75th annual Tony Awards will honor Broadway's finest in New York City. This year's awards ceremony is being hosted by West Side Story star ...

Tonight, the 75th annual Tony Awards will honor Broadway’s finest in New York City. This year’s awards ceremony is being hosted by West Side Story star Ariana DeBose, a Tony nominee and Broadway veteran herself. Be sure to check back on this post for real-time updates from the red carpet. Don’t want to miss out on all the spellbinding style?

Darren Criss and Julianne Hough are hosting the first hour of the Tony Awards on Paramount+. Follow our coverage.

And if you’re an obsessive fan of “Hamilton,” perhaps you saw her without even realizing it: she was the dancer who incarnated the bullet in the original Broadway cast. We spoke with Jackman, and a handful of other actors, after the Tony nominations were announced on May 9. Tonight, Antwayn Hopper (of “A Strange Loop”) is bringing that energy to the Tonys in a fab all-white look, with a gold-embroidered, high-collar, va-va-voom shirt. The award, which was co-founded by the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University in 2014 to recognize top K-12 drama teachers, comes with $10,000 for her high school’s theater program. An average of 6,503 cases per day were reported in New York in the last week, a decrease of 26 percent from the average two weeks ago. Angela Lansbury, a beloved star of stage, film and television, will be honored on Sunday night with a special Tony Award for lifetime achievement. (The third was an Off Broadway production of the opera “Intimate Apparel,” which was adapted from her play of the same name and ran at Lincoln Center Theater.) It even includes a shout out to the “low wages” of stage performers compared to film and TV. “This is the dream,” Nottage said. Or “Trouble in Mind,” which is up for best revival of a play. “MJ” is a drastically different kind of show. Indirect: Some of the content being honored got to Broadway because the closures cleared the ground for authors, work and styles rarely seen there before.

Lucy Moss, left, and Toby Marlow accept the award for best original score for "Six: The Musical." Charles Sykes/Invision/AP. The best photos from ...

Following closely behind with 10 nominations is the pop-musical "MJ," which takes place during a Michael Jackson tour. The show, which follows an aspiring playwright and his dizzying, personified thoughts, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Shows began to reopen in September 2021, though subsequent outbreaks forced several shows to cancel performances.

The 75th Tony Awards are live and the winners are rolling, see which nominees win big from "A Strange Loop" to "MJ."

“Company” A big night filled with multiple wins could help shows like “A Strange Loop” or “Paradise Square,” both of which are vying for best musical, at the box office. “MJ” After the Black Lives Matter movement, Broadway has faced pressure to elevate more stories of underrepresented communities. This comeback season hasn’t always been a smooth one. Theaters began to reopen in August, but the 2021 to 2022 box office is down more 50% from the last pre-pandemic full season, a sign that audiences remain skittish about returning to in-person events.

Host Ariana DeBose kicked off the first regularly scheduled Tony Awards since 2019 with an opening number that mashed up musical theater classics and a ...

“MJ” led the early awards with three wins — for choreography, sound design and lighting design of a musical — while “The Lehman Trilogy” claimed scenic design and lighting design of a play and “Six” won a second prize for costume design of a musical. The nominated performers include Hugh Jackman ( “The Music Man”), Billy Crystal ( “Mr. Saturday Night”) and Mare Winningham (“Girl From the North Country”) in the musical categories. Entering the evening, “A Strange Loop,” the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama that had a pre-Broadway engagement at Washington’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre this past fall, led the pack with 11 nominations. It has shown us stories that have broadened our world and opened our hearts and our minds, and while we have not solved all of our problems, I feel like the phrase ‘Great White Way’ is becoming more of a nickname as opposed to a how-to guide.” The musicals “ A Strange Loop,” “Six” and “Girl From the North Country” and such plays as “The Minutes,” “The Lehman Trilogy” and “Clyde’s” are contending for the coveted top prizes. Six shows, for example, are vying for best new musical, and seven actors are competing to be named best actor in a play.

When the Tony Award nominations were handed out earlier this year, three Broadway productions garnered double-digit honors: “A Strange Loop” (11), “MJ” (10) and ...

“SIX: The Musical” “MJ” “The Minutes” “Hangmen” “Clyde’s” “Company”

See all of the 2022 Tony Award winners.

Best Sound Design of a Musical Best Lighting Design of a Musical Best Costume Design of a Musical Best Scenic Design of a Musical Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical It's also the first time in history that the Tony Awards are airing live coast-to-coast.

Patti LuPone's win marks her third Tony Award after she previously won best actress in a musical for her roles in Evita (1980) and Gypsy (2008)

Company is up for nine Tonys, including one for best musical revival. The 2022 Tony Awards are currently airing live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on CBS and Paramount+. The actress and singer, 73, nabbed the trophy for best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical at the 75th Tony Awards on Sunday, for her role as Joanne in Company.

Broadway's special night is finally here! Keep scrolling to see what your favorite stars wore to the 2022 Tony Awards.

I am, in the words of Stephen Sondheim, 'excited and scared.'" Keep scrolling to see what all your favorite stars wore to the 2022 Tony Awards. Broadway's biggest night is going down at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and all of the most musical stars are starting to hit the red carpet in style.

9:45 p.m.. A revival of Stephen Sondheim's “Company” that gender-switches the lead character has won the Tony Award for best musical revival. The show is an ...

Criss will not only be watching the Tonys on Sunday, he’ll also be working. Darren Criss’ favorite night of the year has arrived. “Watching every night feels really exciting because I’m watching a piece of art that I started from like a really formative time, sort of really become something bigger than any sort of personal experience that I was having.” Jackson said there’s a little Usher in him. I’ve worked on this musical for almost 20 years, and so to be here after having stuck to my guns feels like such a validation,” Jackson said on the Tony red carpet. “A Strange Loop,” a theater meta-journey about a playwright writing a musical, goes into the telecast with a leading 11 Tony nominations. “Six: The Musical” picked up awards for best score and costumes for a musical. The main event with host Ariana DeBose will start live at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS. This time, it had a bachelorette and the sexes of several couples swapped around. Ferguson plays the superstar’s unathletic gay accountant. This time, it had a bachelorette and the sexes of several couples swapped around. Marianne Elliott has made Tony history by becoming the only woman to have won three Tonys for directing.