The 10th Annual Tony Awards

The 13th Annual Tony Awards

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 14th Annual Tony Awards

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 15th Annual Tony Awards

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 21st Annual Tony Awards

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 22nd Annual Tony Awards

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 23rd Annual Tony Awards

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 24th Annual Tony Awards

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 25th Annual Tony Awards

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 26th Annual Tony Awards

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 27th Annual Tony Awards

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 28th Annual Tony Awards

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 29th Annual Tony Awards

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 30th Annual Tony Awards

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 31st Annual Tony Awards

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 32nd Annual Tony Awards

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 33rd Annual Tony Awards

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 34th Annual Tony Awards

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 35th Annual Tony Awards

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 36th Annual Tony Awards

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 37th Annual Tony Awards

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 38th Annual Tony Awards

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 39th Annual Tony Awards

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 40th Annual Tony Awards

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 41th Annual Tony Awards

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 42th Annual Tony Awards

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 43rd Annual Tony Awards

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 44th Annual Tony Awards

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 45th Annual Tony Awards

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 46th Annual Tony Awards

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 47th Annual Tony Awards

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 48th Annual Tony Awards

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 49th Annual Tony Awards

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 50th Annual Tony Awards

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 51st Annual Tony Awards

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 52nd Annual Tony Awards

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 53rd Annual Tony Awards

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 54th Annual Tony Awards

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 55th Annual Tony Awards

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 56th Annual Tony Awards

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 57th Annual Tony Awards

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 58th Annual Tony Awards

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 59th Annual Tony Awards

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 60th Annual Tony Awards

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 61st Annual Tony Awards

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 62nd Annual Tony Awards

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 63rd Annual Tony Awards

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 64th Annual Tony Awards

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 65th Annual Tony Awards

Celebrating the 2011-2012 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Other Desert Cities, Clybourne Park, Venus In Fur, and Peter And The Starcatcher. Best musical nominees: Once, Newsies, Leap Of Faith, and Nice Work If You Can Get It.

The 66th Annual Tony Awards

Celebrating the 2012-2013 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Assembled Parties, Lucky Guy, The Testament Of Mary, and Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike. Best musical nominees: Kinky Boots, Bring It On: The Musical, A Christmas Story: The Musical, and Matilda: The Musical.

The 67th Annual Tony Awards

Celebrating the 2013-2014 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Act One, All The Way, Casa Valentina, Mothers And Sons, and Outside Mullingar. Best musical nominees: A Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder, Aladdin, After Midnight, and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

The 68th Annual Tony Awards

Celebrating the 2014-2015 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Disgraced, Hand To God, and Wolf Hall (Part One: Wolf Hall • Part Two: Bring Up The Bodies). Best musical nominees: An American In Paris, Fun Home, The Visit, and Something Rotten!.

The 69th Annual Tony Awards

Celebrating the 2015-2016 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Eclipsed, The Father, The Humans, and King Charles III. Best musical nominees: Bright Star, Hamilton, Waitress, School Of Rock: The Musical, and Shuffle Along  Or The Making Of The Musical Sensation Of 1921 And All That Followed.

The 70th Annual Tony Awards

Celebrating the 2016-2017 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Indecent, Oslo, Sweat, and A Doll's House Part 2. Best musical nominees: Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Groundhog Day: The Musical, and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812.

The 71st Annual Tony Awards

Celebrating the 2017-2018 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Children, Farinelli And The King, Junk, Latin History For Morons, and Harry Potter And The Cursed Child (Part I and Part II). Best musical nominees: The Band's Visit, Frozen, Mean Girls, and SpongeBob SquarePants.

The 72nd Annual Tony Awards

Celebrating the 2018-2019 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Ferryman, Choir Boy, What The Constitution Means To Me, Ink, and Gary: A Sequel To Titus Andronicus. Best musical nominees: Beetlejuice, Hadestown, The Prom, Tootsie, and Ain't Too Proud: The Life And Times Of The Temptations.

The 73rd Annual Tony Awards

Celebrating the 2019-2020 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Inheritance, The Sound Inside, Slave Play, Grand Horizons, and the double bill Sea Wall/A Life. Best musical nominees: Moulin Rouge!, Jagged Little Pill, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.

The 74th Annual Tony Awards

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

Broadway's Back!

Season 75th of Tony Awards premiered on June 12, 2022.

The 75th Tony Awards

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.

The Tony Awards: Act One

The 76th celebration honors the incredible artistry of the 2022-2023 season.  For the first time, the Tony Awards is presented at the historic United Palace.

The 76th Annual Tony Awards

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.

Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose hosts "The 77th Annual Tony Awards" from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York.

The 77th Annual 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.

All Episodes of Tony Awards

All Episodes of Tony Awards

Season 1

The 10th Annual Tony Awards

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/1956