The 76th Tony Awards took place Sunday night at the United Palace in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood with Academy Award-winning actress Ariana DeBose as a presenter. The awards ceremony, which honors plays and musicals that opened on Broadway between April 29, 2022 and April 27, 2023, was broadcast on CBS and on the Paramount+ streaming service. A special segment aired, hosted by Julianne Hough and Skyler Astin Pluto TV ahead of the main ceremony, during which a number of awards were announced, including Lifetime Achievement honors and Best Original Score.
This year’s award ceremony, which was nearly canceled amid the Writers Guild of America strike, was presented without a script in an agreement reached with the union. (When last month’s screenwriters’ strike threatened the broadcast, the playwrights banded together to save the telecast.) The ceremony also went without an assigned opening number and writers were encouraged to pre-record their acceptance speeches.
“Kimberly Akimbo” won Best Play, and “Leopoldstadt” took home Best Play. J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell became the first non-binary actors to win in their respective categories, Best Lead Actor in a Musical and Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Jodie Comer, best known for playing a murderer on the TV show “Killing Eve,” took Tony home for her performance on the one-woman show “Prima Facie,” her first professional role.
Best Actor in a Play
Brandon Uranowitz, “Leopoldstadt”
Best Actress in a Play
Miriam Silverman, “The Mark in Sidney Brustein’s Window”
Best music design
Beowulf Burritt, “New York, New York”
Best Costume Design for a Play
Brigitte Riefenstweil, “Leopoldstadt”
Best Musical Costume Design
Greg Barnes, “Some Like It Hot”
Best Sound Design for a Play
Caroline Downing, “Life of Pi”
Best sound design for music
Nevin Steinberg, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
Best stage lighting design
Tim Lutkin, “Life of Pi”
Best lighting design for music
Natasha Katz, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
Joel Gray and John Kander
Isabel Stephenson Award
Jerry Mitchell
Tony Award for Regional Theatre
Pasadena Theatre
Tony Award for Excellence in Theater Education
Jason Zimbuch Young
Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre
Lisa Dunn Cave, Victoria Bailey, and Robert Fried
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