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Everything You Need to Know About the 2025 Tony Award Winners

Last updated June 30, 2025 by Broadway.com Staff
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The 2025 Tony Awards took place on June 8th, celebrating the best of what Broadway has to offer. Here’s your guide to which shows, performers and creators won big on Broadway’s biggest night!

Tony-Winning Shows

Maybe Happy Ending

6 TONY AWARD WINS:

Best Musical
Best Leading Actor in a Musical - Darren Criss
Best Book of a Musical - Will Aronson and Hue Park
Best Score of a Musical - Will Aronson and Hue Park
Best Director of a Musical - Michael Arden
Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Dane Laffrey and George Reeve

Darren Criss and Helen J Shen star in this romantic musical comedy that follows two Helper-Bot robots living in Seoul as they form a unique friendship and go on a surprising adventure. Buy tickets to Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway!

Helperbot Oliver stands smiling and holding a plant
Darren Criss in Maybe Happy Ending
(Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)

Buena Vista Social Club

4 TONY AWARD WINS:

Best Featured Actress in a Musical - Natalie Venetia Belcon
Best Choreography - Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck
Best Orchestrations - Marco Paguia
Best Sound Design of a Musical - Jonathan Deans

Inspired by true events and featuring a world class Afro-Cuban band, this new musical transports audiences to Cuba as it brings the GRAMMY® Award-winning album of the same name to thrilling life—and tells the story of the legends who lived it. Buy tickets to Buena Vista Social Club on Broadway!

 
a circus act performs
Renesito Avich and Natalie Venetia Belcon in Buena Vista Social Club.
(Photo: Matthew Murphy

Stranger Things: The First Shadow

3 TONY AWARD WINS:

Best Scenic Design of a Play - Miriam Buether and 59
Best Lighting Design of a Play - Jon Clark
Best Sound Design of a Play - Paul Arditti

The Olivier Award-winning prequel to the hit Netflix series arrives on Broadway featuring stunning special effects, extraordinary performances, and a storyline that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Buy tickets to Stranger Things: The First Shadow on Broadway!

Louis McCartney in Stranger Things: The First Shadow
(Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)

Sunset Boulevard

3 TONY AWARD WINS:

Best Revival of a Musical
Best Leading Actress in a Musical - Nicole Scherzinger
Best Lighting Design of a Musical - Daniel Aukin

Nicole Scherzinger makes her Broadway debut as Norma Desmond in director Jamie Lloyd's thrilling and acclaimed revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, navigating the intoxicating need for fame and adoration. Buy tickets to Sunset Boulevard on Broadway!

Nicole Scherzinger faces forward and looks out dramatically
Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard
(Photo: Marc Brenner)

Oh, Mary!

2 TONY AWARD WINS:

Best Play
Best Leading Actor in a Play - Cole Escola
Best Director of a Play - Sam Pinkleton

Cole Escola’s hit comedy following the miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination has taken Broadway by storm! Buy tickets to Oh, Mary! on Broadway!

Conrad Ricamora and Cole Escola in Oh, Mary!
(Photo: Emilio Madrid)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

2 TONY AWARD WINS:

Best Leading Actress in a Play - Sarah Snook
Best Costume Design of a Play - Marg Horwell

Succession star Sarah Snook makes her Broadway debut reprising her Olivier Award-winning performance as all 26 characters in Oscar Wilde's classic about a man who yearns for eternal youth. Kip Williams directs the contemporary production, which features a combination of live performance and video. 

Sarah Snook sits on a bench surrounded by flowers
Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Photo: Marc Brenner)

Purpose

2 TONY AWARD WINS:

Best Play
Best Featured Actress in a Play - Kara Young

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins introduces audiences to the influential Jasper family, long a pillar in Black American politics, in the Broadway transfer of his spirited, hilarious and intriguing family drama. Buy tickets to Purpose on Broadway!

the Jasper family takes a selfie
Jon Michael Hill, Kara Young and Harry Lennix in Purpose
(Photo: Marc J. Franklin)

Death Becomes Her

1 TONY AWARD WIN:

Best Costume Design of a Musical - Paul Tazewell

The musical adaptation of the 1992 film of the same name comes to Broadway! Madeline Ashton and helen Sharp take the stage in Death Becomes Her, which follows the pair as they begin a new era of life thanks to a mysterious woman with a secret that's to die for. Buy tickets to Death Becomes Her on Broadway!

Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard look glamorous in purple gowns
Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in Death Becomes Her
(Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)

Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical

1 TONY AWARD WIN:

Best Featured Actor in a Musical - Jak Malone

A combination of farce, thriller, and spy caper, the Olivier Award-winning Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical arrives on Broadway to tell both the wildly improbably and hilariously true story of a WWII era covert operation. Buy tickets to Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical on Broadway!

the five cast members of Operation Mincemeat
The cast of Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
(Photo: Julieta Cervantes)

Eureka Day

1 TONY AWARD WIN:

Best Revival of a Play

Jonathan Spector’s wildly relevant and bitingly funny play set at a private California elementary school as the Board of Directors struggle with the making a choice that won’t please absolutely everybody.

Jessica Hecht and Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz in Eureka Day
(Photo: Jeremy Daniel)

Yellow Face

1 TONY AWARD WIN:

Best Leading Actor in a Play - Francis Jue

Screen favorite Daniel Dae Kim stars in David Henry Hwang's Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist farce about a playwright who protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. 

Daniel Dae Kim in Yellow Face
(Photo: Joan Marcus)

Coming to New York City to catch a Tony-winning show? Be sure to check out our Introductory Guide to Broadway, The Best Shows Coming to Broadway in 2025 and more helpful Broadway Guides for the best Broadway experience.

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