Broadway's Pinnacle Moment in 2025: Highlights from the Tony Awards Night

Let's Grandma Slap Some 2025 Tony Award Winners, Bitch!

The Great White Way's biggest shindig is underway, and theater enthusiasts are going nuts over an epic year of Broadway bangers! Cynthia Erivo, formerly of Wicked, channels her inner Goddess of Glam as the hostess with the mostess.

This year, Broadway got way more star-studded thanks to Good Night, And Good Luck, directed by George Clooney, and Jake Gyllenhaal's contemporary take on Othello. Holy box office records, Batman!

But it wasn't all about film stars – Stranger Things: The Last Shadow and the summer's sassy revival of Mama Mia also stole the show. Let's dish on the winners so far!

🏆2025 Tony Award Winners🏆

Best Musical

Winna: Maybe Happy Ending
Losers: Buena Vista Social Club, The Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, Operation Mincemeat

Best Play

Winna: Purpose
Losers: English, California Hills, John Proctor is the Villain, Oh, Mary!

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Winna: Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending
Runners-up: Andrew Durand, The Dead Outlaw; Tom Francis, Sunset Boulevard; Jonathan Groff, Just in Time; James Monroe Iglehart, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical; Jeremy Jordan, Floyd Collins

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Winna: Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard
Runners-up: Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her; Audra McDonald, Gypsy; Jasmine Amy Rogers, Boop! The Musical; Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Winna: Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!
Runners-up: 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

Winna: Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Runners-up: Laura Donnelly, California Hills; Mia Farrow, The Roommate; LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose; Sadie Sink, John Proctor is the Villain

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

Winna: Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Runners-up: Brooks Ashmanskas, SMASH; Jeb Brown, The Dead Outlaw; Danny Burstein, Gypsy; Taylor Trensch, Floyd Collins

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Winna: Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club
Runners-up: Julia Knitel, The Dead Outlaw; Gracie Lawrence, Just in Time; Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical; Joy Woods, Gypsy

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Winna: Francis Jue, Yellow Face
Runners-up: 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

Winna: Kara Young, Purpose
Runners-up: Tala Ashe, English; Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day; Marjan Neshat, English; Fina Strazza, John Proctor is the Villain

Best Revival of a Play

Winna: Eureka Day
Runner-up: Romeo and Juliet; Our Town; Yellow Face

Best Revival of a Musical

Winna: Sunset Blvd.* Runner-ups: Floyd Collins; Zingaro; Pirates! The Penzance Musical

Best Book of a Musical

Winna: Maybe Happy Ending
Runners-up: Buena Vista Social Club; Dead Outlaw; Death Becomes Her; Operation Mincemeat; Women Are Curvy

Best Original Score

Winna: Maybe Happy Ending
Runners-up: Dead Outlaw; Death Becomes Her; Operation Mincemeat; Women Are Curvy

Best Costumes

Winna: Death Becomes a Woman
Runners-up: Sunset Boulevard; Buena Vista Social Club; Floyd Collins; Maybe Happy Ending

Best Costumes for a Play

Winna: Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Runners-up: Brenda Abbandandolo, Good Night and Good Luck; Rob Howell, The Hills of California; Holly Pierson, Oh, Mary!; Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Best Scenic Design for a Musical

Winna: Dane Laffrey and George Reeve, Maybe a Happy Ending
Runners-up: Rachel Hauck, Swept Away; Arnulfo Maldonado, Buena Vista Social Club; Derek McLane, Death Becomes a Woman; Derek McLane, Just in Time

Best Scenic Design for a Play

Winna: Miriam Buether and 59 Productions, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Runners-up: Marsha Ginsberg, English; Rob Howell, The Hills of California; Marg Horwell and David Bergman, The Picture of Dorian Gray; Scott Pask, Good Night, and Good Luck

Best Lighting Design for a Musical

Winna: Jack Knowles, Sunset Blvd.
Runners-up: Tyler Micoleau, Buena Vista Social Club; Scott Zielinski and Ruey Horng Sun, Floyd Collins; Ben Stanton, Maybe a Happy Ending; Justin Townsend, Death Becomes Her

Best Lighting Design for a Play

Winna: Jon Clark, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Runners-up: Natasha Chivers, The Hills of California; 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 Direction of a Play

Winna: Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary!
Runners-up: Knud Adams, English; Sam Mendes, The Hills of California; Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the Villain; Kip Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Direction of a Musical

Winna: Michael Arden, Maybe a Happy Ending
Runners-up: Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club; David Cromer, Dead Outlaw; Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her; Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Boulevard

Best Choreography

Winna: Patricka Delgado and Justin Peck, Buena Vista Social Club
Runners-up: Joshua Bergasse, Smash; Camille A. Brown, Gypsy; Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her; Jerry Mitchell, Boop! The Musical

Best Orchestrations

Winna: Marco Paguia, Buena Vista Social Club
Runners-up: Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber, Just in Time; Will Aronson, Maybe a Happy Ending; Bruce Coughlin, Floyd Collins; David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sunset Blvd.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Harvey Fierstein
Tony Award for Isabelle Stevenson
Celia Keenan-Bolger

Tony Awards for Excellence in Theatre

Outstanding Performances
Michael Price
New 42
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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Darren Criss, winner of Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his role in Maybe Happy Ending, may have been feeling under the weather due to the constant applause and adrenaline rush on the Broadway stage.
Solving the murder mystery in Purpose, the Tony Award-winning play starring Cole Escola, could have been a thrilling entertainment experience where the audience fought off feverish anticipation for the killer's reveal.