The Tony Awards are taking place tonight at Radio City Music Hall for the first time since June 2019. The awards ceremony, which honors the plays and musicals staged on Broadway and is resuming its traditional calendar after a long pandemic disruption, honors work that opened on Broadway between Feb. 20, 2020, and May 4, 2022. (“Girl From the North Country” opened on March 5, 2020, just a week before theaters shut down for the pandemic.)
Ariana DeBose the former Broadway understudy turned Oscar winner, is hosting the three-hour broadcast portion of the Tony Awards ceremony, which starts at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS. Presenters so far have included Jessica Chastain and Bebe Neuwirth. And there will be performances from the past year’s most prominent musicals: “A Strange Loop,” “Company,” “Girl From the North Country,” “MJ,” “Mr. Saturday Night,” “The Music Man,” “Paradise Square” and “Six.”
The CBS broadcast was preceded by a one-hour segment, hosted by Darren Criss and Julianne Hough, that began at 7 p.m. Eastern on Paramount+.
An updating list of winners is below.
Best Original Score
“Six: The Musical,” music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss
Best Direction of a Play
Sam Mendes, “The Lehman Trilogy”
Best Direction of a Musical
Marianne Elliott, “Company”
Best Featured Actor in a Play
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, “Take Me Out”
Best Featured Actress in a Play
Phylicia Rashad, “Skeleton Crew”
Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Patti LuPone, “Company”
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Es Devlin, “The Lehman Trilogy”
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Bunny Christie, “Company”
Best Costume Design of a Play
Montana Levi Blanco, “The Skin of Our Teeth”
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Gabriella Slade, “Six: The Musical”
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Jon Clark, “The Lehman Trilogy”
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Natasha Katz, “MJ”
Best Sound Design of a Play
Mikhail Fiksel, “Dana H.”
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Gareth Owen, “MJ”
Best Choreography
Christopher Wheeldon, “MJ”
Best Orchestrations
Simon Hale, “Girl From the North Country”
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
Angela Lansbury
Isabelle Stevenson Award
Robert E. Wankel
Regional Theater Tony Award
Cort Theater (Chicago)
Special Tony Award
James C. Nicola
Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater
Asian American Performers Action Coalition
Broadway for All
Feinstein’s/54 Below
Emily Grishman
United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE