Celebrate the best of Broadway with the titles and playwrights nominated for the 78th Tony Awards®! From groundbreaking new works to powerful revivals, explore the stories and voices recognized by theatre’s biggest award.
7 Nominations
John Proctor Is the Villain by
Best Play
Sadie Sink, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Fina Strazza, Best Performace by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Gabriel Ebert, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Natasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski, Best Lighting Design of a Play
Palmer Hefferan, Best Sound Design of a Play
Danya Taymor, Best Direction of a Play
Julieta Cervantes, 2025 Broadway production
At a high school in a one-stoplight town in Georgia, an English class is studying The Crucible but the students are more preoccupied with navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. As the students delve into the American classic, they begin to question the play’s perspective and the validity of naming John Proctor the show’s hero. With deep wells of passion and biting humor, this comedy captures a generation mid-transformation, running on pop music, optimism, and fury, discovering that their future is not bound by the past and that they have the power to change it all.
5 Nominations
Oh, Mary! by
Best Play
Cole Escola, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Conrad Ricamora, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Holly Pierson, Best Costume Design of a Play
Sam Pinkleton, Best Direction of a Play
Emilio Madrid, 2024 Broadway production
Mary Todd Lincoln is tired of Washington, DC. The nation’s capital is so boring; she would much rather be onstage, where she belongs, starring in a cabaret. And if she can’t do that, she might as well drink. Or push her chaperone down the stairs. Or drink. The entire White House is fed up with Mary’s antics, most of all her bore of a husband, who can’t focus on anything except his silly Civil War. To get her out of his hair, Abe hires a handsome, up-and-coming actor to give Mary acting lessons, hoping to keep her busy and out of trouble, but the distraction ends up working a little too well. A riotous, campy, outrageous comedy that dares to ask: What won’t Mary Todd Lincoln do to be a star?
3 Nominations
Yellow Face by
Best Revival of a Play
Daniel Dae Kim, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Francis Jue, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Sara Krulwich, 2024 Broadway production
The lines between truth and fiction blur with hilarious and moving results in David Henry Hwang’s unreliable memoir. Asian American playwright DHH, fresh off his Tony Award® win for M. Butterfly, leads a protest against the casting of Jonathan Pryce as the Eurasian pimp in the original Broadway production of Miss Saigon, condemning the practice as “yellowface.” His position soon comes back to haunt him when he mistakes a Caucasian actor, Marcus G. Dahlman, for mixed race, and casts him in the lead Asian role of his own Broadway-bound comedy, Face Value. When DHH discovers the truth of Marcus’ ethnicity, he tries to conceal his blunder to protect his reputation as an Asian American role model, by passing the actor off as a “Siberian Jew.” Meanwhile, DHH’s father, Henry Y. Hwang, an immigrant who loves the American Dream and Frank Sinatra, finds himself ensnared in the same web of late-1990’s anti-Chinese paranoia that also leads to the “Donorgate” scandal and the arrest of Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee. As he clings to his old multicultural rhetoric, this new racist witch hunt forces DHH to confront the complex and ever-changing role that “face” plays in American life today.
2 Nominations
Eureka Day by
Best Revival of a Play
Jessica Hecht, Best Performace by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Jeremy Daniel, 2024 Broadway production
The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. In weekly meetings Eureka Day’s five board members develop and update policy to preserve this culture of inclusivity, reaching decisions only by consensus. But when a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka community, facts become subjective and every solution divisive, leaving the school’s leadership to confront the central question of our time: How do you build consensus when no one can agree on truth?
Nominated Authors
John Proctor Is the Villain
Best Play
Sadie Sink, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Gabriel Ebert, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Fina Strazza, Best Performace by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Natasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski, Best Lighting Design of a Play
Palmer Hefferan, Best Sound Design of a Play
Danya Taymor, Best Direction of a Play
Jez Butterworth
The Hills of California
Best Play
Laura Donnelly, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Rob Howell, Best Costume Design of a Play
Natasha Chivers, Best Lighting Design of a Play
Nick Powell, Best Sound Design of a Play
Rob Howell, Best Scenic Design of a Play
Sam Mendes, Best Direction of a Play
Ted Chapin & Warren Leight
Just in Time
Jonathan Groff, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Gracie Lawrence, Best Performace by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Catherine Zuber, Best Costume Design of a Musical
Derek McLane, Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Peter Hylenski, Best Sound Design of a Musical
Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber, Best Orchestrations
Cole Escola
Oh, Mary!
Best Play
Cole Escola, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Conrad Ricamora, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Holly Pierson, Best Costume Design of a Play
Sam Pinkleton, Best Direction of a Play
David Henry Hwang
Yellow Face
Best Revival of a Play
Daniel Dae Kim, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Francis Jue, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Purpose
Best Play
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Jon Michael Hill, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Harry Lennix, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Kara Young, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Glenn Davis, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Arthur Laurents & Stephen Sondheim
Gypsy
Best Revival of a Musical
Audra McDonald, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Joy Woods, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Danny Burstein, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Camille A. Brown, Best Choreography
John Logan
Swept Away
Rachel Hauck, Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Lisa Loomer & Nell Benjamin
Real Women Have Curves
Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Justina Machado, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
David Mamet
Glengarry Glen Ross
Bob Odenkirk, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Itamar Moses
Dead Outlaw
Best Musical
Itamar Moses, Best Book of a Musical
Andrew Durand, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Julia Knitel, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Jeb Brown, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
David Cromer, Best Direction of a Musical
Marco Pennette
Death Becomes Her
Best Musical
Marco Pennette, Best Book of a Musical
Megan Hilty, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Jennifer Simard, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Derek McLane, Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Paul Tazewell, Best Costume Design of a Musical
Justin Townsend, Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Christopher Gattelli, Best Direction of a Musical
Christopher Gattelli, Best Choreography
Jen Silverman
The Roommate
Mia Farrow, Best Performace by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Eureka Day
Best Revival of a Play
Jessica Hecht, Best Performace by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Jack Thorne
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Louis McCartney, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Miriam Buether and 59, Best Scenic Design of a Play
Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Best Costume Design of a Play
Jon Clark, Best Lighting Design of a Play
Paul Arditti, Best Sound Design of a Play
