Tony Awards 2025 winners: Succession’s Sarah Snook kicks off the night time as she ratings Best Actress award for her Broadway debut

The star-studded 78th Annual Tony Awards have been held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday.

The display, hosted through Cynthia Erivo, celebrated Broadway’s brightest abilities in making a song, performing, dancing and extra.

Sarah Snook, 37, was once the primary winner of the night time for Best Leading Actress in a Play. Snook delivered an out of this world efficiency in The Picture of Dorian Gray, enjoying all 26 characters, together with Dorian and Lord Henry.

The Succession celebrity made her Broadway debut within the formidable level adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel, directed and written through Kipp Williams. 

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter offered her with the award.

Sarah beat out a robust lineup of nominees together with Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California, Mia Farrow for The Roommate, LaTanya Richardson Jackson for Purpose, and Sadie Sink for John Proctor Is the Villain. 

Snook famous that the Tony Awards target market is an ‘intimidating room of extremely gifted other folks.’ 

She went on: ‘Thank you such a lot for this. This approach such a lot for a bit of Australian girl to be right here on Broadway.’

‘Thank you to my fantastic group… and simply everyone on level. [The Picture of Dorian Gray] is billed as a one particular person display, and I do not really feel on my own any night time that I do that display.’

‘There are such a lot of other folks at the level making it paintings and such a lot of other folks in the back of the level making it paintings.’

She additionally thanked her husband Dave Lawson: ‘And an outstanding thanks, the most important thanks I will ever give to my husband, my soulmate, you might be so good retaining circle of relatives in combination and having a look after the telephones.’

The Picture of Dorian Gray follows a good-looking younger guy whose painted portrait grotesquely ages with every of his sins, whilst he stays endlessly younger. 

Francis Jue, 61, gained the most efficient featured actor in a play for his efficiency in Yellow Face. 

Katie Holmes and Danielle Brooks offered him with the award. 

He beat out Glenn Davis for Purpose, Gabriel Ebert for John Proctor Is the Villain, Bob Odenkirk for Glengarry Glen Ross, and Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary! 

He gave a passionate speech, telling the group: ‘For those that do not really feel noticed, for the ones being focused in those authoritarian instances, I see you. At its very best, this neighborhood sees you. And I’m hoping that encourages you to be courageous and to dream and to dream large.’

He started his speech pronouncing: ’20 years in the past, glorious actor, singer Alvin Ing gave me this tux. He had it made for himself for the hole of “Pacific overtures” on Broadway in 1976.’

‘When he gave it to me he instructed me he sought after me to put on it after I approved my Tony award. I’m best right here on account of the encouragement and inspiration of generations of excellent Asian artists who got here ahead of me, and not were given the alternatives that I’ve had.’

‘It will also be tricky in difficult instances to be courageous, so I wish to thank Scott Ellis and roundabout theater for bold to do a play known as “Yellow face” in an election season. Thank you to David Henry Hwang for giving me and such a lot of others a voice.’

Hwang’s Yellow Face is a semi-autobiographical satirical comedy that explores the complexities of race and id.

English actor Jak Malone, 30, nabbed the win for very best featured actor in a musical, for his Broadway debut in Operation Mincemeat.

He beat out Brooks Ashmanskas for Smash, Jeb Brown for Dead Outlaw, Danny Burstein for Gypsy, and Taylor Trensch for Floyd Collins.

In an impassioned speech, Malone instructed the target market about his portrayal of a girl within the play: ‘Eight instances per week I stroll out on that level and inform the target market I’m a girl. I’m now not one. I best put across it via easy adjustment to posture, voice, and effort, however night time after night time the target market is imagine in Hester.’

‘If you think our display and located your self believing in Hester, I’m so satisfied to inform you that deliberately or in a different way you will have simply bid farewell to cynicism, out of date concepts of that rotten previous binary and open your self as much as an international that is already available in the market in superb technicolor and is not going away anytime quickly.’

He won the award from Adam Lambert and Charli D’Amelio. 

Operation Mincemeat is a fast moving musical comedy dramatizing the actual 1943 Allied deception: tricking the Nazis into believing they would invade Greece as a substitute of Sicily. 

Kara Young gained very best featured actress in a play for her efficiency in Purpose.

She triumphed over Tala Ashe for English, Jessica Hecht for Eureka Day, Marjan Neshat for English, and Fina Strazza for John Proctor Is the Villain.

Purpose is a darkly comedic circle of relatives drama that delves into the advanced legacy of a distinguished African-American circle of relatives. 

Kara sweetly thanked her mom ahead of creating a remark on how theater brings other folks in combination, even in an international that steadily feels fractured.

‘Thank you to my mom and my father. My mom, who’s my date, Vanessa Jenkins Young. My Belizean queen of the bay who cooked and stewed and brewed me for 9 months. Thank you. My father, Klay Young, and my brother, Klay Jr. I like you guys.’

She then said: ‘In this international that we’re so divided, theater is a sacred area! It’s a sacred area that we need to honor and treasure. And it makes us united. Thank you such a lot.’

She was once offered the award through Carrie Preston and Harry Potter celebrity Tom Felton. 

The Best Featured Actress in a Musical award went to Natalie Venetia Belcon, 56, for her efficiency in Buena Vista Social Club.

It was once her first Tony nomination and win, and the celebrity were given emotional whilst accepting her award.

At one level Belcon additionally joked about having an ‘obsession’ with actor Jason Momoa, quipping, ‘Hey, Jason. How you doing?’

The Buena Vista Social Club musical is encouraged through the actual occasions surrounding the introduction of the Grammy-winning album of the similar title and the lives of the long-lasting Cuban musicians who created it. 

Belcon then thanked the ‘actual Buena Vista Social Club, who after all shall we now not do that with out. I’m hoping you’ll see this. I’m hoping you might be happy with us. It is such an honor to painting you.’

‘My fellow nominees, your performances are all extremely inspiring. My family and friends, thanks for paying attention to me cry and cackle and whinge at 3:00 within the morning.’

She gained out in opposition to Julia Knitel for Dead Outlaw, Gracie Lawrence for Just in Time, and Justina Machado for Real Women Have Curves, and Joy Woods for Gypsy.

She won the award from Rachel Bay Jones and Kristin Chenoweth. 

The very best new play award went to creator Branden Jacobs Jenkins and manufacturer Glenn Davis for Purpose.

They have been up in opposition to Oh, Mary!, John Proctor Is the Villain, English, and The Hills of California.

Author Jonathan Spector and manufacturer Lynne Meadow approved the award for Best Revival of a Play for Eureka Day.

They have been up in opposition to Our Town, Romeo + Juliet, and Yellow Face.

Samuel L. Jackson and his spouse LaTanya Richardson Jackson offered them with the award. 

The maximum prestigious rite honoring theatre is hosted through three-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, who kicked off the display with an exhilarating efficiency that includes Oprah.

This 12 months options primary celebrity energy within the lead actor and actress classes. 

George Clooney is competing for his vastly a success play Good Night, And Good Luck — an adaptation of the movie of the similar title that he directed, co-wrote and costarred in — for the lead actor in a play class, whilst performing legend Mia Farrow is competing in opposition to Succession celebrity Sarah Snook and Stranger Things celebrity Sadie Sink within the lead actress in a play class. 

Darren Criss and Jonathan Groff are including some celebrity energy to the lead actor in a musical class, whilst Megan Hilty, Nicole Scherzinger and Broadway legend Audra McDonald are one of the most greatest names within the lead actress in a musical class. 

Bob Odenkirk is very best recognized for his movie and tv paintings, together with his acclaimed run on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, however he is now nominated within the Best Performance through an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play class for his flip within the revival of David Mamet’s iconic drama of desperation, Glengarry Glen Ross. 

Presenters this 12 months come with Charli D’Amelio, Michelle Williams, Hacks’ Jean Smart, LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Lea Salonga, all of whom are these days showing on Broadway. 

The level icon Kristin Chenoweth can also be presenting, whilst Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter could have a Bill and Ted reunion on level forward in their upcoming manufacturing of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot. Glee celebrity Lea Michele can also be joined on level through Aaron Tveit. 

Several former Tony winners will likely be serving to to announce awards, together with Oprah Winfrey, Bryan Cranston, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sarah Paulson, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kelli O’Hara and Rachel Bay Jones. 

And the opposite presenters don’t seem to be precisely slouches, as a number of of them have Oscars and Grammy Awards to their names. They come with Ben Stiller, Samuel L. Jackson, Katie Holmes, Jesse Eisenberg, Allison Janney, Ariana DeBose, Adam Lambert, Carrie Preston, Danielle Brooks and Sara Bareilles.

Going into the 2025 rite, 3 musicals are main the pack with 10 nominations every: Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy.

Buena Vista Social Club is encouraged through the cherished Cuban ensemble of the similar title, which recorded a success eponymous album in 1997 and was once documented in Wim Wenders’ acclaimed documentary (additionally of the similar title) in 1999.

Death Becomes Her is in keeping with the Robert Zemeckis fantastical black comedy from 1992, which starred Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis.

Unlike the ones musicals, that are tailored from present track and flicks, Maybe Happy is a science fiction–romance that originated in South Korea. It follows two android helper-bots who increase emotions for every different, even though their quick existence spans threaten any long term plans. 

Dead Outlaw, John Proctor Is The Villain, Sunset Blvd. and The Hills Of California are all tied for seven Tony nominations, whilst Floyd Collins, Justin In Time, Purpose and The Picture Of Dorian Gray are tied for 6. 

Dead Outlaw and Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical also are competing within the Best Musical class, whilst English, The Hills Of California, John Proctor Is The Villain, Oh, Mary! and Purpose are vying for Best Play.

Purpose and English have already been venerated with Pulitzer Prizes. 

This 12 months’s nominated revivals come with Eureka Day, Romeo + Juliet, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face within the play class, whilst Floyd Collins, Gypsy, Pirates! The Penzanze Musical and Sunset Blvd. fill out the Best Revival of a Musical class. 

The performances this 12 months will spotlight the entire new and revived musical nominees, in addition to Just In Time and Real Women Have Curves, which were not nominated in very best musical or revival however did obtain different primary nominations. 

The 2025 Tonys will glance to the previous as neatly with a tribute to Hamilton for its 10th anniversary as the unique forged reunites for a efficiency. 

Miranda will likely be accompanied through Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Daveed Diggs, Ariana DeBose, Jonathan Groff and Christopher Jackson, all of whom have been a part of the unique manufacturing.

Erivo, 38, was once higher recognized for her paintings within the theatre ahead of increasing right into a a success movie and tv occupation.

The Wicked Star — who just lately stirred up controversy when she was once introduced because the celebrity of a manufacturing of Jesus Christ Superstar being held on the Hollywood Bowl in August — is already three-quarters of the best way towards finishing the uncommon and coveted EGOT after successful an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony.

Along the best way, she additionally won nominations for 4 Golden Globe Awards, two British Academy Film Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

She up to now starred on Broadway in the preferred adaptation of The Color Purple, which ended in her appearing its tune I’m Here on the 2016 Tonys. 

The three-hour display, which begins at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT, will also be watched continue to exist CBS or streamed on Paramount+ with Showtime. Users with the Paramount+ Essential subscription will give you the option to start out observing the display on the next day to come.