The Tony Awards nominations for this year were announced on May 5, with the ceremony set for June 7 at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. The annual celebration of Broadway and live theatre includes categories for musicals, plays, revivals, acting, directing, design, choreography, orchestration, and more. This year’s slate highlights a mix of original productions and high-profile revivals, with several titles earning multiple nominations across major categories.
In the musical race, the nominees for Best Musical are The Lost Boys, Schmigadoon!, Titanique, and Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York). The Best Play category includes The Balusters by David Lindsay-Abaire, Giant by Mark Rosenblatt, Liberation by Bess Wohl, and Little Bear Ridge Road by Samuel D. Hunter. For revival honors, the Best Revival of a Musical nominees are Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Ragtime, and The Rocky Horror Show, while the Best Revival of a Play contenders are Becky Shaw, Death of a Salesman, Every Brilliant Thing, Fallen Angels, and Oedipus.
The acting categories feature a wide range of stage stars. In leading play performances, nominees include Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara for Fallen Angels, Carrie Coon for Bug, Susannah Flood for Liberation, and Lesley Manville for Oedipus. On the actor side, Will Harrison, Nathan Lane, John Lithgow, Daniel Radcliffe, and Mark Strong are among the leading role nominees. Musical acting categories include Sara Chase, Stephanie Hsu, Caissie Levy, Marla Mindelle, and Christiani Pitts for actresses, and Nicholas Christopher, Luke Evans, Joshua Henry, Sam Tutty, and Brandon Uranowitz for actors.
Supporting performance nominations also span major productions. Featured play actress nominees include Betsy Aidem, Marylouise Burke, Aya Cash, Laurie Metcalf, and June Squibb. Featured play actor nominees include Christopher Abbott, Danny Burstein, Brandon J. Dirden, Alden Ehrenreich, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Richard Thomas. In musical supporting roles, nominees include Shoshana Bean, Hannah Cruz, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Nichelle Lewis, Ali Louis Bourzgui, André De Shields, Bryce Pinkham, Ben Levi Ross, and Layton Williams.
Behind the scenes, the nominations recognize directing, choreography, design, and technical excellence. Best Direction of a Play nominees include Nicholas Hytner, Robert Icke, Kenny Leon, Joe Mantello, and Whitney White. Best Direction of a Musical includes Michael Arden, Lear deBessonet, Christopher Gatelli, Tim Jackson, and Zhailon Levingston with Bill Rauch. Choreography nominees include Christopher Gattelli, Ellenore Scott, Ani Taj, Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles, and Lauren Yalango-Grant with Christopher Cree Grant.
Technical categories honor scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers, as well as orchestrators, with repeated nominations for productions such as Ragtime, Schmigadoon!, The Lost Boys, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, The Rocky Horror Show, Oedipus, Death of a Salesman, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. The full list shows a particularly competitive year for stage productions, with both classic works and newer titles drawing strong recognition across the board.
