Tony Awards

Tony Awards

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.

Seasons

1. The 10th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1956-04-01

1. The 13th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1959-04-12

1. The 14th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1960-04-24

Celebrating the 1959-1960 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Best Man, The Miracle Worker, A Raisin In The Sun, The Tenth Man, and Toys In The Attic. Best musical nominees: Fiorello!, Gypsy, Once Upon A Mattress, The Sound Of Music, and Take Me Along.

The 15th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 15th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1961-04-16

Celebrating the 1960-1961 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: All The Way Home, Becket, The Devil's Advocate, The Hostage, and (according to the telecast) A Taste Of Honey. Best musical nominees: Bye Bye Birdie, Do Re Mi, and Irma La Douce.

The 21st Annual Tony Awards

1. The 21st Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1967-03-26

Celebrating the 1966-1967 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Black Comedy, A Delicate Balance, The Homecoming, and The Killing Of Sister George. Best musical nominees: The Apple Tree, Cabaret, I Do! I Do!, and Walking Happy.

The 22nd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 22nd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1968-04-21

Celebrating the 1967-1968 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, Plaza Suite, The Price, and Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. Best musical nominees: Hallelujah, Baby!, The Happy Time, Illya Darling, and How Now, Dow Jones.

The 23rd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 23rd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1969-04-20

Celebrating the 1968-1969 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Great White Hope, Hadrian VII, Lovers, and The Man In The Glass Booth. Best musical nominees: 1776, Hair, Zorba, and Promises, Promises.

The 24th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 24th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1970-04-19

Celebrating the 1969-1970 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Borstal Boy, Child's Play, Indians, and Last Of The Red Hot Lovers. Best musical nominees: Applause, Coco, and Purlie.

The 25th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 25th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1971-03-28

Celebrating the 1970-1971 Broadway theatre season and a look back at the first 25 years of Tony history. Best play nominees: Home, The Philanthropist, Sleuth, and Story Theatre. Best musical nominees: Company, The Me Nobody Knows, and The Rothschilds.

The 26th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 26th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1972-04-23

Celebrating the 1971-1972 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Old Times, The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, Sticks And Bones, and Vivat! Vivat Regina!. Best musical nominees: Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death, Follies, Grease, and Two Gentlemen Of Verona.

The 27th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 27th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1973-03-25

Celebrating the 1972-1973 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Butley, The Changing Room, The Sunshine Boys, and That Championship Season. Best musical nominees: A Little Night Music, Pippin, Sugar, and Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope.

The 28th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 28th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1974-04-21

Celebrating the 1973-1974 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Au Pair Man, Boom Boom Room, The River Niger, and Ulysses In Nighttown. Best musical nominees: Raisin, Seesaw, and Over Here!.

The 29th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 29th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1975-04-20

Celebrating the 1974-1975 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Equus, The National Health, Seascape, Short Eyes, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead/The Island, and Same Time, Next Year. Best musical nominees: The Lieutenant, Mack And Mabel, Shenandoah, and The Wiz.

The 30th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 30th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1976-04-18

Celebrating the 1975-1976 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The First Breeze of Summer, Knock Knock, Lamppost Reunion, and Travesties. Best musical nominees: Bubbling Brown Sugar, Chicago, A Chorus Line, and Pacific Overtures.

The 31st Annual Tony Awards

1. The 31st Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1977-06-05

Celebrating the 1976-1977 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Otherwise Engaged, The Shadow Box, Streamers, and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf. Best musical nominees: Annie, Happy End, I Love My Wife, and Side By Side By Sondheim.

The 32nd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 32nd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1978-06-04

Celebrating the 1977-1978 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Da, Chapter Two, Deathtrap, and The Gin Game. Best musical nominees: Ain't Misbehavin', Dancin', On The Twentieth Century, and Runaways.

The 33rd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 33rd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1979-06-03

Celebrating the 1978-1979 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Bedroom Farce, The Elephant Man, Wings, and Whose Life Is It Anyway?. Best musical nominees: Ballroom, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, They're Playing Our Song, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street.

The 34th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 34th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1980-06-08

Celebrating the 1979-1980 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Bent, Children Of A Lesser God, Home, and Talley's Folly. Best musical nominees: Barnum, Evita, Sugar Babies, and A Day In Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine.

The 35th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 35th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1981-06-07

Celebrating the 1980-1981 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Amadeus, Fifth Of July, A Lesson From Aloes, and A Life. Best musical nominees: 42nd Street, Sophisticated Ladies, Tintypes, and Woman Of The Year.

The 36th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 36th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1982-06-06

Celebrating the 1981-1982 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Crimes Of The Heart, The Dresser, The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby, and "Master Harold" …And The Boys. Best musical nominees: Dreamgirls, Nine, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Pump Boys And Dinettes.

The 37th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 37th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1983-06-05

Celebrating the 1982-1983 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Angels Fall, Plenty, Torch Song Trilogy, and 'Night, Mother. Best musical nominees: Blues In The Night, Cats, Merlin, and My One And Only.

The 38th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 38th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1984-06-03

Celebrating the 1983-1984 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Glengarry Glen Ross, Noises Off, Play Memory, and The Real Thing. Best musical nominees: Baby, La Cage Aux Folles, Sunday In The Park With George, and The Tap Dance Kid.

The 39th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 39th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1985-06-02

Celebrating the 1984-1985 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: As Is, Biloxi Blues, Hurlyburly, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Best musical nominees: Grind, Leader Of The Pack, Quilters, and Big River: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn.

The 40th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 40th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1986-06-01

Celebrating the 1985-1986 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Benefactors, Blood Knot, The House Of Blue Leaves, and I'm Not Rappaport. Best musical nominees: Big Deal, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, Tango Argentino, and Song And Dance.

The 41th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 41th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1987-06-07

Celebrating the 1986-1987 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Broadway Bound, Coastal Disturbances, Fences, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Best musical nominees: Les Misérables, Rags, Starlight Express, and Me And My Girl.

The 42th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 42th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1988-06-05

Celebrating the 1987-1988 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Speed-the-Plow, A Walk In The Woods, Joe Turner's Come And Gone, and M. Butterfly. Best musical nominees: Into The Woods, The Phantom Of The Opera, Sarafina!, and Romance/Romance.

The 43rd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 43rd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1989-06-04

Celebrating the 1988-1989 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Heidi Chronicles, Largely New York, Lend Me A Tenor, and Shirley Valentine. Best musical nominees: Starmites, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, and Black And Blue.

The 44th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 44th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1990-06-03

Celebrating the 1989-1990 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Grapes Of Wrath, Prelude To A Kiss, The Piano Lesson, and Lettice And Lovage. Best musical nominees: Aspects Of Love, City Of Angels, Grand Hotel, and Meet Me In St. Louis.

The 45th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 45th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1991-06-02

Celebrating the 1990-1991 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Lost In Yonkers, Our Country's Good, Shadowlands, and Six Degrees Of Separation. Best musical nominees: Miss Saigon, Once On This Island, The Secret Garden, and The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue.

The 46th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 46th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1992-05-31

Celebrating the 1991-1992 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Dancing At Lughnasa, Four Baboons Adoring The Sun, Two Shakespearean Actors, and Two Trains Running. Best musical nominees: Crazy For You, Falsettos, Five Guys Named Moe, and Jelly's Last Jam.

The 47th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 47th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1993-06-06

Celebrating the 1992-1993 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Sisters Rosensweig, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, The Song Of Jacob Zulu, and Angels In America: Millennium Approaches. Best musical nominees: Blood Brothers, The Goodbye Girl, Kiss Of The Spider Woman, and The Who's Tommy.

The 48th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 48th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1994-06-12

Celebrating the 1993-1994 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Angels In America: Perestroika, Broken Glass, The Kentucky Cycle, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Best musical nominees: Beauty And The Beast, Passion, A Grand Night For Singing, and Cyrano: The Musical.

The 49th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 49th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1995-06-04

Celebrating the 1994-1995 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Arcadia, Having Our Say, Indiscretions, and Love! Valour! Compassion!. Best musical nominees: Sunset Boulevard and Smokey Joe's Cafe.

The 50th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 50th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1996-06-02

Celebrating the 1995-1996 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Buried Child, Master Class, Racing Demon, and Seven Guitars. Best musical nominees: Chronicle Of A Death Foretold, Rent, Swinging On A Star, and Bring In 'Da Noise/Bring In 'Da Funk.

The 51st Annual Tony Awards

1. The 51st Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1997-06-01

Celebrating the 1996-1997 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Last Night Of Ballyhoo, Skylight, Stanley, and The Young Man From Atlanta. Best musical nominees: The Life, Titanic, Steel Pier, and Juan Darién — A Carnival Mass.

The 52nd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 52nd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1998-06-07

Celebrating the 1997-1998 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Art, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, Freak, and Golden Child. Best musical nominees: The Lion King, Ragtime, Side Show, and The Scarlet Pimpernel.

The 53rd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 53rd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1999-06-06

Celebrating the 1998-1999 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Closer, The Lonesome West, Not About Nightingales, and Side Man. Best musical nominees: The Civil War, Fosse, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues, and Parade.

The 54th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 54th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2000-06-04

Celebrating the 1999-2000 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Copenhagen, Dirty Blonde, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, and True West. Best musical nominees: Contact, James Joyce's The Dead, The Wild Party, and Swing!.

The 55th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 55th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2001-06-03

Celebrating the 2000-2001 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: King Hedley II, The Invention Of Love, Proof, and The Tale Of The Allergist's Wife. Best musical nominees: A Class Act, The Full Monty, The Producers, and Jane Eyre: The Musical.

The 56th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 56th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2002-06-02

Celebrating the 2001-2002 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Fortune's Fool, Metamorphoses, Topdog/Underdog, and The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?. Best musical nominees: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sweet Smell of Success, Mamma Mia!, and Urinetown — The Musical.

The 57th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 57th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2003-06-08

Celebrating the 2002-2003 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Enchanted April, Take Me Out, Vincent In Brixton, and Say Goodnight, Gracie. Best musical nominees: Amour, Hairspray, Movin' Out, and A Year With Frog And Toad.

The 58th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 58th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2004-06-06

Celebrating the 2003-2004 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Anna In The Tropics, Frozen, I Am My Own Wife, and The Retreat From Moscow. Best musical nominees: Avenue Q, Wicked, The Boy From Oz, and Caroline, Or Change.

The 59th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 59th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2005-06-05

Celebrating the 2004-2005 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Doubt, Democracy, Gem Of The Ocean, and The Pillowman. Best musical nominees: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Light In The Piazza, and Monty Python's Spamalot.

The 60th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 60th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2006-06-11

Celebrating the 2005-2006 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The History Boys, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, Rabbit Hole, and Shining City. Best musical nominees: The Color Purple, The Drowsy Chaperone, Jersey Boys, and The Wedding Singer.

The 61st Annual Tony Awards

1. The 61st Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2007-06-10

Celebrating the 2006-2007 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Frost/Nixon, Radio Golf, The Little Dog Laughed, and The Coast Of Utopia (Part I: Voyage/Part II: Shipwreck/Part III: Salvage). Best musical nominees: Curtains, Grey Gardens, Mary Poppins, and Spring Awakening.

The 62nd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 62nd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2008-06-15

Celebrating the 2007-2008 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The 39 Steps, The Seafarer, Rock 'N' Roll, and August: Osage County. Best musical nominees: Cry-Baby, In The Heights, Passing Strange, and Xanadu.

The 63rd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 63rd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2009-06-07

Celebrating the 2008-2009 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Dividing The Estate, God Of Carnage, Reasons To Be Pretty, and 33 Variations. Best musical nominees: Next To Normal, Rock Of Ages, Shrek — The Musical, and Billy Elliot: The Musical.

The 64th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 64th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2010-06-13

Celebrating the 2009-2010 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Next Fall, Red, Time Stands Still, and In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play). Best musical nominees: American Idiot, Fela!, Memphis, and Million Dollar Quartet.

The 65th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 65th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2011-06-12

Celebrating the 2010-2011 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Good People, Jerusalem, The Motherfucker With The Hat, and War Horse. Best musical nominees: The Book Of Mormon, Catch Me If You Can, The Scottsboro Boys, and Sister Act.

The 50th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 50th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1996-06-02

The 50th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Majestic Theatre on June 2, 1996, hosted by Nathan Lane. The show was historic for being the 50th annual Tony Award ceremony since its inception in 1947.

The 51st Annual Tony Awards

1. The 51st Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1997-06-01

The 51st Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from Radio City Music Hall on June 1, 1997; "Launching the Tonys" was telecast on PBS television . The event was hosted by Rosie O'Donnell. The awards ceremony moved away from Broadway for the first time in 30 years, to Radio City Music Hall, which allowed members of the general public to attend the ceremony. Jonathan Tunick's win made him the seventh person to become an EGOT, after his win for Titanic. However it was the long-running revival of the musical Chicago that won the most awards on the night, receiving 6 awards including Best Revival of a Musical.

The 52nd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 52nd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1998-06-07

The 52nd Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 7, 1998, at Radio City Music Hall and was broadcast by CBS television. A documentaries segment was telecast on PBS television. The ceremony was hosted by Rosie O'Donnell, who hosted a total of three times (1997, 1998, and 2000). This ceremony is notable for its Best Direction of a Play and Best Direction of a Musical winners both being female, the first time a female has won either award.[citation needed] The writer of the Best Play winner was also female, the second female winner of the award.[citation needed] The Lion King's win made it the first franchise to complete EGOT status, having won six awards including Best Musical. Its closest rivals were the very successful revival of Cabaret, and the top-nominated (having earned 13 nominations) show Ragtime.

The 53rd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 53rd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 1999-06-06

The 53rd Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Gershwin Theatre on June 6, 1999. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television. The show did not have a formal host.

The 54th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 54th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2000-06-04

The 54th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 4, 2000 and broadcast by CBS. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television. The event was hosted, for the 3rd time since 1997, by Rosie O'Donnell, with special guest Nathan Lane.

The 55th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 55th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2001-06-03

The 55th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 3, 2001 and broadcast by CBS. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television . The event was co-hosted by Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. The Producers won 12 awards (every award it was eligible to win), breaking the 37 year old record set by Hello, Dolly! to become the most awarded show in Tony Awards history. Mel Brooks's win made him the eighth person to become an EGOT.

The 56th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 56th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2002-06-02

The 56th Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 2, 2002 and broadcast by CBS. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television. The event was co-hosted by Bernadette Peters and Gregory Hines.

The 57th Annual Tony Awards

1. The 57th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2003-06-09

The 57th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2003, and broadcast by CBS television. The event was hosted for the first time by Hugh Jackman.

1. The 58th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2004-06-06

The 58th Annual Tony Awards were held June 6, 2004 at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast on CBS television. Hugh Jackman was the host. The Awards telecast won the Creative Arts Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special, and Jackman won the Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. Wicked was easily the biggest show to open out of all of the nominees (it has not officially closed at all, making it one of the longest-running shows in Broadway history), however it didn't mean success. The revival of Assassins went and won a season-best 5 awards, including Best Revival of a Musical. Wicked was even snubbed of the coveted Best Musical prize; that award went to Avenue Q.

2. Broadway's Back!

Air Date: 2021-09-26

Celebrating the 2019-2020 Broadway theatre season. Presenting the final three awards of the evening: Best Play, Best Musical, and Best Revival.

1. The 59th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2005-06-05

The 59th Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 5, 2005 at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast by CBS television. Hugh Jackman hosted for the third time in a row. This was the first year the craft category awards (costume, scenic, lighting) were divided into plays and musicals.

2. The Tony Awards: Act One

Air Date: 2022-06-12

Emmy Award winners Darren Criss and Julianne Hough have been named co-hosts of “The Tony Awards: Act One,” one hour of exclusive content streaming live, only on Paramount+, which will commence Sunday, June 12 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/4:00-5:00 PM, PT), prior to the live broadcast of the Tony Awards on CBS. Criss and Hough will kick off the evening celebrating the 2022 Tony Awards, bestowing multiple awards and introducing special performances throughout the exciting hour of programming.

1. The 60th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2006-06-11

The 60th Annual Tony Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall on June 11, 2006. The award ceremony was broadcast live on the CBS television network in the United States. The 2006 Tony Awards did not feature a host, but instead over 60 stars presented awards at the ceremony. The biggest winner of the night was the Royal National Theatre production The History Boys by British playwright Alan Bennett winning six Tonys out of seven nominations, including Best Play, Best Direction, Best Leading Actor and Best Featured Actress.

2. The Tony Awards: Act One

Air Date: 2023-06-11

Julianne Hough and Skylar Astin host "The Tony Awards: Act One', a 90-minute telecast, streaming live exclusively on PlutoTV, during which the trophies for some categories — including score, design, and orchestration — will be awarded. Snippets of those acceptance speeches will be shown during the official 76th annual Tony Awards, which begins at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Paramount+ and CBS.

1. The 61st Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2007-06-07

The 61st Annual Tony Award ceremony was held on June 10, 2007 at Radio City Music Hall, with CBS television broadcasting live. The cut-off date for eligibility was May 9, meaning that to be qualified for the 2006-2007 season, shows must have opened before or on this date.

2. The Tony Awards: Act One

Air Date: 2024-06-16

The 62nd Annual Tony Awards

1. The 62nd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2008-06-15

The 62nd Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 15, 2008. The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American theatre. CBS television broadcast the event from Radio City Music Hall in New York City as it has since the 51st Awards ceremony in 1997. The event recognized Broadway productions playing during the 2007 – 2008 season and was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.

2. The Tony Awards: Act One

Air Date: 2025-06-08

1. The 63rd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2009-06-07

The 63rd Annual Tony Awards, which recognized Broadway productions of the 2008-2009 season, were presented on June 7, 2009 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The ceremony was broadcast by CBS, with Neil Patrick Harris as host.

1. The 64th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2010-06-13

The 64th Annual Tony Awards took place on Sunday, June 13, 2010, held again at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The host was Sean Hayes. Opening number includes songs from: Promises Promises, Come Fly Away, Everyday Rapture, Fela, La Cage Aux Folles. Special performance by Green Day Live numbers from: American Idiot, Million Dollar Quartet, La Cage Aux Folles, Memphis, A Little Night Music, Fela, Come Fly Away, Promises Promises.

1. The 65th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2011-06-12

Neil Patrick Harris hosts the 65th annual celebration of Broadway's finest from New York's Beacon Theatre. Musicals "The Book of Mormon" and "The Scottsboro Boys" lead all shows with 14 and 12 nominations, respectively, followed by the revival of "Anything Goes" with nine nods. Live performances from: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Catch Me If You Can, The Scottsboro Boys, The Book Of Mormon, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, Sister Act, Memphis, Anything Goes, Company, Weather Girl,

1. The 66th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2012-06-10

Neil Patrick Harris hosts the 66th annual celebration of Broadway's finest from New York's Beacon Theatre. Musical "Once" leads all shows with 11 nominations, followed by "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" each with 10 nods. Live performances from: The Book Of Mormon, Newsies, Follies, Ghost, Jesus Christ Superstar, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Porgy And Bess, Once, Evita, Godspell, Hairspray

1. The 67th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2013-06-09

Neil Patrick Harris hosts the 67th annual celebration of Broadway's finest from Radio City Music Hall. Musicals "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda the Musical" lead all shows with 13 and 12 nominations, respectively. In the play category, the revival of "Golden Boy" leads the way with 8 nods.

1. The 68th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2014-06-08

The 68th Annual Tony Awards were held June 8, 2014, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2013–14 season. The ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and was televised live on CBS. Hugh Jackman was the host, his fourth time hosting. The 15 musical Tony Awards went to seven different musicals, and six plays shared the 11 play Tony Awards

1. The 69th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2015-06-07

At Radio City Music Hall in New York, the annual ceremony honors excellence on Broadway; scheduled performers include Christian Borle, Tyne Daly, Kelsey Grammer, Vanessa Hudgens and Brian d'Arcy James; Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming host.

1. The 70th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2016-06-12

1. The 71st Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2017-06-11

1. The 72nd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2018-06-10

1. The 73rd Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2019-06-09

1. The 74th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2021-09-26

1. The 75th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2022-06-12

1. The 76th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2023-06-11

1. The 77th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2024-06-16

1. The 78th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2025-06-08

The 78th Tony Awards will be held on June 8, 2025, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2024–25 season. The ceremony will be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. The ceremony will be hosted by Cynthia Erivo.

1. The 79th Annual Tony Awards

Air Date: 2026-06-07

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5.9/10

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1956-04-01

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68 (79 seasons)

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