Tony Awards 2022

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.

Jennifer Hudson attends the 75th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 12, 2022 in New York City. Paris Jackson and Prince Jackson.

Ariana DeBose attends the 75th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 12, 2022 in New York City. Ariana DeBose attends the 75th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 12, 2022 in New York City. Vanessa Hudgens attends the 75th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 12, 2022 in New York City. Vanessa Hudgens attends the 75th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 12, 2022 in New York City. Vanessa Hudgens attends the 75th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 12, 2022 in New York City. She is the 17th person to ever hit this milestone.

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.

HIGH: A meta/sweet opening number, because it's Broadway, baby. Darren Criss and Julianne Hough began the streaming-only stage-setting first hour by setting the ...

HIGH: The performance of “Ex-Wives” from Six. If you want to go out on a high note, why not six high notes? “Please let me be standing here as a little sign from the universe to make the weird art,” O’Connell said, urging everyone to chase their passion and not the prize. LOW: A cut to the audience revealing that Ruthie Ann Miles was one of the very few people wearing a face mask. HIGH: The original cast of Spring Awakening reunited to perform “Touch Me.” It was nice! Finally, as Company won for Best Revival of a Musical, Harper threw in the last line: “Patti, it’s an honor to be the man who pays your salary.” It doesn’t seem too much to ask, surely, that she have photos from the evening that don’t have a shadow on her face. It is very uncomfortable to watch the show treat Jackson’s legacy as though it is an uncomplicated pop-star arc as it glosses over the dark, tragic, somehow-still-a-significant-controversy elements of Jackson’s life. A generous helping of love for the Michael Jackson musical MJ in these Tony awards, including awards for lead actor, lighting, sound design and choreography, as well as a big showcase for the “Smooth Criminal” number. With a couple of warm nods to COVID safety professionals and a scant few masks visible in the audience, the 75th annual Tony awards were anxious to communicate that Broadway has exited the pandemic and survived. It’s not quite as rough as last year, but hosting the first hour of the awards ceremony solely on a streaming platform, apparently ending 7 minutes early, and then directing the audience — Paramount+ premium only please — to switch to a different tab within the service … the seams showed, much more than they should have. DeBose and Chita Rivera embraced (in matching purple), and even the unflappable Natasha Katz took the stage to accept her lighting design award and said, “Nathan Lane!” in a tone of astonishment and delight. As always, the slurring of these awards, given second-class status, is infuriating to people who love and care about stagecraft.

The Michael Jackson musical, A Strange Loop and The Lehman Trilogy led the nominations this year. The show at Radio City Music Hall in New York has also ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

The event, now in its 75th year, saw "MJ," a bio musical about Michael Jackson, win four awards — including Myles Frost's for Best Lead Actor. Frost paid ...

The award went to Patti LuPone for "Company." For the record: Other big wins went to "The Lehman Trilogy" for best play, "Company" for best musical revival and "Take Me Out" for best revival of a play. - Marianne Elliott achieved the feat of being the only woman to have won three Tonys for directing, after winning for "Company" on Sunday, according to AP.

New York's Radio City Music Hall is currently awash with the best in Broadway, to celebrate the biggest and brightest in this season's plays and musicals.

Showcasing a range of simple, classic and eternally stylish looks, below, we pull the curtain on the best red carpet looks so far. New York's Radio City Music Hall is currently awash with the best in Broadway, to celebrate the biggest and brightest in this season's plays and musicals. The Most Stunning Red Carpet Looks From The 2022 Tony Awards

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.

CMU alumni have earned 58 Tonys to date — onstage, behind the scenes and more.

CMU has a long tradition of producing top talent onstage and behind the scenes. We applaud the artists — and the teachers — who are leading the way." The four-hour celebration of Broadway's finest kicked off with an exclusive Paramount+ stream and transitioned to a national/international telecast on CBS.

Stars turned out for the 2022 Tony Awards and celebrated the return of Broadway from host Ariana DeBose to stars like Marcia Gay Harden, Lin-Manuel Miranda, ...

They shared some stories with me and that meant a lot to me,” he said. “I had this moment of doing rehearsals today, and I just looked up at the lights, looked up at the stage, people performing, and the audience fillers, and it made my heart so full. But mainly we’re going to enjoy watching Ariana DeBose just slay…every single joke, every moment,” the Girls5eva star said. But luckily, Jackson’s kids and family members supported the budding star with some insight. To celebrate each other, and theater is back, and live performances, it’s back,” Broadway legend Bernadette Peters told Vanity Fair. It’s overwhelming in a great way.”

Stars including Billy Porter, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jennifer Hudson and Darren Criss partied all over New York following the 75th Tony Awards on Sunday.

Braff was spotted “without a date and dancing up a storm,” another spy says. “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star Michael Zagen got cozy during his first public outing with new girlfriend, Jennifer Damiano. They were spotted chatting to her former “Next to Normal” co-star Tveit at the Plaza. Meanwhile, Tony host DeBose let loose at Pebble, where guests took over two floors.