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    Tony Awards 2025: full list of winners and nominees

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    The 78th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo at Radio City Music Hall, celebrated Broadway’s best performances of the year. Below is the complete list of 2025 Tony Award nominees and winners across all categories, including best musical, best play, and special honors. Winners are marked in bold

    'Purpose' makes Tony Awards history for Kara Young and wins best playAP
    Winners of the 2025 Tony Awards were announced at Radio City Music Hall, recognizing excellence across Broadway’s best plays and musicals. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
    2025 Tony Award winners and nominees: complete breakdown
    Best Musical
    Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
    Buena Vista Social Club
    Dead Outlaw
    Death Becomes Her
    Maybe Happy Ending

    Best Play
    Oh, Mary!
    English
    The Hills of California
    John Proctor is the Villain
    Purpose

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    Best Revival of a Play
    Yellow Face
    Eureka Day
    Romeo + Juliet
    Thornton Wilder's Our Town

    Best Revival of a Musical
    Gypsy
    Floyd Collins
    Pirates! The Penzance Musical
    Sunset Blvd.

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
    Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!
    George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
    Jon Michael Hill, Purpose
    Daniel Dae Kim, Yellow Face
    Harry Lennix, Purpose
    Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
    Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California
    Mia Farrow, The Roommate
    LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose
    Sadie Sink, John Proctor is the Villain

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
    Jonathan Groff, Just in Time
    Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending
    Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw
    Tom Francis, Sunset Blvd.
    James Monroe Iglehart, A Wonderful World
    Jeremy Jordan, Floyd Collins

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    Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
    Audra McDonald, Gypsy
    Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her
    Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical
    Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Blvd.
    Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
    Francis Jue, Yellow Face
    Glenn Davis, Purpose
    Gabriel Ebert, John Proctor is the Villain
    Bob Odenkirk, Glengarry Glen Ross
    Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary!

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
    Kara Young, Purpose
    Tala Ashe, English
    Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day
    Marjan Neshat, English
    Fina Strazza, John Proctor is the Villain

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
    Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
    Brooks Ashmanskas, SMASH
    Jeb Brown, Dead Outlaw
    Danny Burstein, Gypsy
    Taylor Trensch, Floyd Collins

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
    Joy Woods, Gypsy
    Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club
    Julia Knitel, Dead Outlaw
    Gracie Lawrence, Just in Time
    Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves

    Special Tony Honors, technical categories, and direction winners
    Best Direction of a Play
    Kip Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Knud Adams, English
    Sam Mendes, The Hills of California
    Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary!
    Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the Villain

    Best Direction of a Musical
    Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd.
    Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club
    Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending
    David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
    Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her

    Best Book of a Musical
    Operation Mincemeat, David Cumming et al.
    Buena Vista Social Club, Marco Ramirez
    Dead Outlaw, Itamar Moses
    Death Becomes Her, Marco Pennette
    Maybe Happy Ending, Will Aronson and Hue Park

    Best Original Score
    Dead Outlaw, Yazbek and Della Penna
    Death Becomes Her, Julia Mattison and Noel Carey
    Maybe Happy Ending, Will Aronson and Hue Park
    Operation Mincemeat, Cumming et al.
    Real Women Have Curves, Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez

    Best Choreography
    Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
    Joshua Bergasse, SMASH
    Camille A. Brown, Gypsy
    Jerry Mitchell, BOOP!
    Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, Buena Vista

    Best Orchestrations
    Will Aronson, Maybe Happy Ending
    Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber, Just in Time
    Bruce Coughlin, Floyd Collins
    Marco Paguia, Buena Vista Social Club
    David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sunset Blvd.

    Best Scenic Design of a Musical
    Derek McLane, Death Becomes Her
    Rachel Hauck, Swept Away
    Dane Laffrey and George Reeve, Maybe Happy Ending
    Arnulfo Maldonado, Buena Vista Social Club
    Derek McLane, Just in Time

    Best Costume Design of a Play
    Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
    Brenda Abbandandolo, Good Night, and Good Luck
    Marg Horwell, Dorian Gray
    Rob Howell, The Hills of California
    Holly Pierson, Oh, Mary!

    Best Costume Design of a Musical
    Paul Tazewell, Death Becomes Her
    Dede Ayite, Buena Vista Social Club
    Gregg Barnes, BOOP!
    Clint Ramos, Maybe Happy Ending
    Catherine Zuber, Just in Time

    Best Lighting Design of a Play
    Nick Schlieper, Dorian Gray
    Natasha Chivers, Hills of California
    Jon Clark, Stranger Things
    Heather Gilbert and David Bengali, Good Night
    Katz and Wasileski, John Proctor

    Best Lighting Design of a Musical
    Jack Knowles, Sunset Blvd.
    Tyler Micoleau, Buena Vista
    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
    Palmer Hefferan, John Proctor
    Daniel Kluger, Good Night
    Nick Powell, Hills of California
    Clemence Williams, Dorian Gray

    Best Sound Design of a Musical
    Peter Hylenski, Maybe Happy Ending
    Jonathan Deans, Buena Vista
    Adam Fisher, Sunset Blvd.
    Peter Hylenski, Just in Time
    Dan Moses Schreier, Floyd Collins

    Best Scenic Design of a Play
    Marg Horwell and David Bergman, Dorian Gray
    Marsha Ginsberg, English
    Rob Howell, Hills of California
    Miriam Buether and 59, Stranger Things
    Scott Pask, Good Night

    Special Tony Awards
    Musicians of Buena Vista Social Club
    Illusions & Effects, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
    Tony Honors for Excellence: Great Performances, Michael Price, New 42, NYPL for the Performing Arts
    Isabelle Stevenson Award: Celia Keenan-Bolger
    Lifetime Achievement: Harvey Fierstein


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