Nominations for the 78th annual Tony Awards were announced this morning, Thursday, May 1, at 9:00 am, by past recipients Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce, live from Sofitel New York. The eligibility cut-off date for the 2024-25 season was Sunday, April 27, 2025, for the 42 Broadway productions that met all eligibility requirements. They are: All In; A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical; BOOP! The Musical; Buena Vista Social Club; Cult of Love; Dead Outlaw; Death Becomes Her; Elf; English; Eureka Day; Floyd Collins; Glengarry Glen Ross; Good Night, and Good Luck; Gypsy; The Hills of California; Home; Job; John Proctor Is the Villain; Just in Time; The Last Five Years; Left on Tenth; Maybe Happy Ending; McNeal; Oh, Mary!; Once upon a Mattress; Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical; Othello; Thornton Wilder’s Our Town; The Picture of Dorian Grey; Pirates! The Penzance Musical; Purpose; Real Women Have Curves: The Musical; Redwood; Romeo + Juliet; The Roommate; SMASH: Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Sunset Blvd.; Swept Away; Tammy Faye; and Yellow Face.
Named for actress, director, and producer Antoinette Perry, the Tony Awards got their start in 1947, when the American Theatre Wing, of which Perry served as the wartime leader, established an awards program to celebrate excellence in the theater, making its official debut at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Easter Sunday of that year. This year, the awards ceremony, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, returns to its long-time home at Radio City Music Hall, where the winners will be announced on June 8; the event will be broadcast live on CBS TV, as it has been since 1978, and streamed on Paramount+.
Leading the awards are the musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, and Maybe Happy Ending, with ten nominations each. And the Tony nominees for the 2024-25 Broadway season are:
Best Musical
Buena Vista Social Club
Dead Outlaw
Death Becomes Her
Maybe Happy Ending
Operation Mincemeat
Best Play
English
The Hills of California
John Proctor Is the Villain
Oh, Mary!
Purpose
Best Revival of a Play
Eureka Day
Romeo and Juliet
Our Town
Yellow Face
Best Revival of a Musical
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
Pirates! The Penzance Musical
Sunset Blvd.
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending
Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw
Tom Francis, Sunset Boulevard
Jonathan Groff, Just in Time
James Monroe Iglehart, A Wonderful World
Jeremy Jordan, Floyd Collins
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her
Audra McDonald, Gypsy
Jasmine Amy Rogers, Boop! The Musical
Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard
Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!
Jon Michael Hill, Purpose
Daniel Dae Kim, Yellow Face
Harry Lennix, Purpose
Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California
Mia Farrow, The Roommate
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose
Sadie Sink, John Proctor Is the Villian
Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
Brooks Ashmanskas, SMASH
Jeb Brown, Dead Outlaw
Danny Burstein, Gypsy
Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Taylor Trensch, Floyd Collins
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club
Julia Knitel, Dead Outlaw
Gracie Lawrence, Just in Time
Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical
Joy Woods, Gypsy
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Glenn Davis, Purpose
Gabriel Ebert, John Proctor is the Villain
Francis Jue, Yellow Face
Bob Odenkirk, Glengarry Glen Ross
Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary!
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Tala Ashe, English
Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day
Marjan Neshat, English
Fina Strazza, John Proctor is the Villain
Kara Young, Purpose
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Marsha Ginsberg, English
Rob Howell, The Hills of California
Marg Horwell and David Bergman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Miriam Buether and 59, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Scott Pask, Good Night, and Good Luck
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Rachel Hauck, Swept Away
Dane Laffrey and George Reeve, Maybe Happy Ending
Arnulfo Maldonado, Buena Vista Social Club
Derek McLane, Death Becomes Her
Derek McLane, Just in Time
Best Costume Design of a Play
Brenda Abbandandolo, Good Night, and Good Luck
Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Rob Howell, The Hills of California
Holly Pierson, Oh, Mary!
Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Dede Ayite, Buena Vista Social Club
Gregg Barnes, BOOP! The Musical
Clint Ramos, Maybe Happy Ending
Paul Tazewell, Death Becomes Her
Catherine Zuber, Just in Time
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Natasha Chivers, The Hills of California
Jon Clark, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Heather Gilbert and David Bengali, Good Night, and Good Luck
Natasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski, John Proctor is the Villain
Nick Schlieper, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Jack Knowles, Sunset Blvd.
Tyler Micoleau, Buena Vista Social Club
Scott Zielinski and Ruey Horng Sun, Floyd Collins
Ben Stanton, Maybe Happy Ending
Justin Townsend, Death Becomes Her
Best Sound Design of a Play
Paul Arditti, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Palmer Hefferan, John Proctor is the Villain
Daniel Kluger, Good Night, and Good Luck
Nick Powell, The Hills of California
Clemence Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Jonathan Deans, Buena Vista Social Club
Adam Fisher, Sunset Blvd.
Peter Hylenski, Just in Time
Peter Hylenski, Maybe Happy Ending
Dan Moses Schreier, Floyd Collins
Best Direction of a Play
Knud Adams, English
Sam Mendes, The Hills of California
Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary!
Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the Villain
Kip Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Direction of a Musical
Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club
Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending
David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd.
Best Choreography
Joshua Bergasse, SMASH
Camille A. Brown, Gypsy
Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
Jerry Mitchell, BOOP! The Musical
Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, Buena Vista Social Club
Best Orchestrations
Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber, Just in Time
Will Aronson, Maybe Happy Ending
Bruce Coughlin, Floyd Collins
Marco Paguia, Buena Vista Social Club
David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sunset Blvd.
Best Book of a Musical
Buena Vista Social Club, Marco Ramirez
Dead Outlaw, Itamar Moses
Death Becomes Her, Marco Pennette
Maybe Happy Ending, Will Aronson and Hue Park
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Dead Outlaw, music and lyrics by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna
Death Becomes Her, music and lyrics by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey
Maybe Happy Ending, music by Will Aronson, lyrics by Will Aronson and Hue Park
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, music and lyrics by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts
Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, music and lyrics by Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez.
In addition to the nominees in the competitive categories, special honorees have already been announced. Recipients of Special Awards are the band of Buena Vista Social Club
and the technical team of Stranger Things: The First Shadow. The Isabelle Stevenson Award will be presented to Celia Keenan-Bolger for her dedication to advocacy work through the arts; Harvey Fierstein will receive the Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Award; and the Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre will go to Great Performances, Michael Price, New 42, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Congratulations to all the nominees and honorees for this prestigious recognition.
The Tony Awards will take place on June 8, 2025, from 8-11 pm, at Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas, NYC. For tickets (priced at $719.80-924.60, including fees), go online. The event will be broadcast live on the CBS television network and will also stream on Paramount+.
