Everything You Need to Know About the 2025 Tony Awards
In best play: Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary!; Max Wolf Friedlich’s Job; Jen Silverman’s The Roommate, starring Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow; Jez Butterworld’s The Hills of California; Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr.; Delia Ephron’s Left on Tenth; Leslye Headland’s Cult of Love; Simon Rich’s All In: Comedy About Love; Sanaz Toossi’s English; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose; Kip Williams’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Sarah Snook; George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Good Night, and Good Luck; Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor Is the Villain, starring Sadie Sink; and Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
In best new musical: Maybe Happy Ending, starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen; Swept Away; Death Becomes Her; Redwood, starring Idina Menzel; Buena Vista Social Club; Operation Mincemeat; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Smash; Just in Time, starring Jonathan Groff; Dead Outlaw; and Real Women Have Curves.
In best revival of a play: Leigh Silverman’s production of David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face; Kenny Leon’s production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town; Sam Gold’s Romeo + Juliet, starring Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor; Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day; Leon’s Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal; and Patrick Marber’s production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, starring Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr, and Bob Odenkirk.
In best revival of a musical: Once Upon a Mattress starring Sutton Foster; Sunset Blvd starring Nicole Scherzinger; Gypsy starring Audra McDonald; The Last Five Years starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren; Floyd Collins; and Pirates! The Penzance Musical starring David Hyde Pierce.
The one absolute lock for a Tony come June? The great Harvey Fierstein, who will recieve the 2025 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
“Harvey Fierstein’s contributions to the American theatre, both as an artist and activist, represent an extraordinary legacy,” Heather Hitchens, president and CEO of the American Theatre Wing, and Jason Laks, president of the Broadway League, said in a release on April 24. “We are thrilled to honor him with this year’s Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Award, and can’t wait to celebrate one of our icons at the Tony Awards on June 8th.”
