Plot Synopsis

Each year since 1947, The American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League have jointly presented the TONY AWARDS to honor the best Broadway productions and performances during the previous year. Named for Antoinette Perry, an actress, director, producer, and the dynamic wartime leader of the American Theatre Wing, the Tony Awards made their official debut at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1947. Television coverage began in 1956 when Du Mont's Channel 5 telecast them locally for the first time, and WCBS in New York broadcast The Tonys locally before they were carried nationally in 1967, when a national audience could watch the presentation of Tony Awards for the first time. CBS began carrying the broadcast in 1978, and has aired the Tonys every year since.
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THE 77TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS, with Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose, airs live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, Sunday, June 16, 2024 from 8-11pm ET/5-8pm PT on CBS and streams on demand on Paramount+.

"The Tony Awards: Act One" (6:30-8pm ET/3:30-5pm PT on Pluto TV): Hosts Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar kick off the evening celebrating the 2024 Tony Awards, with a live pre-show of exclusive content that is available to viewers for free on Pluto TV.

"The 77th Annual Tony Awards" (8-11pm ET/5-8pm PT on CBS and Paramount+): Ariana DeBose hosts the show, featuring showstopping performances from the casts of Tony Award nominated best musicals and revivals, including "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club," "Hell's Kitchen," "Illinoise," "Merrily We Roll Along," "Stereophonic," "Suffs," "The Outsiders," "The Who's Tommy" and "Water for Elephants." The show also includes a special tribute to Chita Rivera featuring Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Bebe Neuwirth. This year's In Memoriam is presented by Brooke Shields and performed by Nicole Scherzinger, who will be making her Broadway debut in "Sunset Boulevard" this Fall. Presenters include Utkarsh Ambudkar, Nate Burleson, Cynthia Erivo, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Josh Gad, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Sean Hayes, Taraji P. Henson, Julianne Hough, Jennifer Hudson, Angelina Jolie, Nick Jonas, Idina Menzel, Ashley Park, Jim Parsons, Wendell Pierce, Ben Platt, Anthony Ramos, Andrew Rannells, Solomon Thomas, Taylor Tomlinson, Pete Townshend, Tamara Tunie, Adrienne Warren, Patrick Wilson and Jeffrey Wright.