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 78TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS, with Tony, Emmy, GRAMMY Award winner and three-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, airs live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, June 8, 2025 from 8-11pm ET/5-8pm PT on CBS and streams on demand on Paramount+. Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell serves as the show announcer.

"The Tony Awards: Act One" (6:40-8pm ET/3:40-5pm PT on Pluto TV): Hosts Darren Criss and Renee Elise Goldsberry kick off the evening celebrating the 2025 Tony Awards, with a live pre-show of exclusive content that is available to viewers for free on Pluto TV.

"The 78th Annual Tony Awards" (8-11pm ET/5-8pm PT on CBS and Paramount+): Cynthia Erivo hosts the show, featuring showstopping performances from the casts of Tony Award nominated best musicals and revivals, including "Buena Vista Social Club," "Dead Outlaw," "Death Becomes Her," "Floyd Collins," "Gypsy," "Maybe Happy Ending," "Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical," "Pirates! The Penzance Musical," "Sunset Blvd.," "Just in Time" and "Real Women Have Curves," along with a special appearance by the 2019 Tony Honor Recipient, Broadway Inspirational Voices. Plus, the original cast of "Hamilton" will reunite in an unprecedented moment for Broadway and fans worldwide, to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary. Participating in this landmark performance are Carleigh Bettiol, Andrew Chappelle, Ariana DeBose, Alysha Deslorieux, Daveed Diggs, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Sydney James Harcourt, Neil Haskell, Sasha Hutchings, Christopher Jackson, Thayne Jasperson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Stephanie Klemons, Morgan Marcell, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Javier Munoz, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Jon Rua, Austin Smith, Phillipa Soo, Seth Stewart, Betsy Struxness, Ephraim Sykes and Voltaire Wade-Greene. Presenters include Aaron Tveit, Adam Lambert, Alex Winter, Allison Janney, Ariana DeBose, Ben Stiller, Bryan Cranston, Carrie Preston, Charli D'Amelio, Danielle Brooks, Jean Smart, Jesse Eisenberg, Katie Holmes, Keanu Reeves, Kelli O'Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Lea Michele, Lea Salonga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Michelle Williams, Oprah, Rachel Bay Jones, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Samuel L. Jackson, Sara Bareilles and Sarah Paulson.