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The road to the 2025 Tony Awards begins Thursday with the announcement of the nominations for Broadway’s biggest celebration.
Stage and screen stars Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce will announce this year’s nominations. American Horror Story and American Crime Story star Paulson won a Tony Award in 2024 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her work in Appropriate in 2023.
Pierce — who plays a supporting role in Marvel’s new movie Thunderbolts* and will star as Daily Planet Editor-in-Chief Perry White in James Gunn’s upcoming version of Superman — won a Tony Award in 2012 for producing the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park.
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Paulson and Pierce will announce nominations for the 78th annual event in select categories on CBS Mornings on CBS-TV on Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Additional nominations will be announced on the Tony Awards’ YouTube channel Thursday at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m. PT.
This year’s Tony Awards will be held on Sunday, June 8, at Radio City Musical Hall in New York City, with The Color Purple Tony Award winner and Wicked Best Actress Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo set to host.
The awards show will air live on CBS-TV starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and will also stream live on Paramount+
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Who Are The Frontrunners For the 2025 Tony Awards?
Several major industry publications are predicting the nominees for the 2025 Tony Awards in the major categories.
One of them is Variety, which is predicting Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, Maybe Happy Ending and Real Women Have Curves as the nominees for Best Musical, with Operation Mincemeat possibly sneaking in as one of the five nominees.
For Best Play, Variety is predicting English, The Hills of California, John Proctor is the Villain, Oh, Mary! and Purpose will land the nominations, with a possible nod for Cult of Love for one of the five spots.
In the Musical Revival Category, Variety is giving the nod to Floyd Collins, Gypsy, Pirates! The Penzance Musical and Sunset Boulevard with Once Upon a Mattress as a potential nominee; while the publication favors Eureka Day, Glengarry Glen Ross, Othello and Yellow Face for Best Play, with Romeo + Juliet potentially landing a nod.
Among the notable stage and screen actors hoping to land Tony nominations in the play categories are George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck, Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal for Othello, Sarah Snook in The Picture Of Dorian Gray and Mia Farrow in The Roommate.
Some of the familiar faces who could land acting nominations in the musical categories include Nicole Scherzinger for Sunset Blvd., Audra McDonald for Gypsy, Idina Menzel for Redwood, Jonathan Groff for Just in Time and Darren Criss for Maybe Happy Ending.
Additionally, the Featured Actor in a Play category could land more than one nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross, with A Real Pain recent Oscar winner Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, Michael McKean and Bill Burr all possible nominees.
The winners at the 78th annual Tony Awards will be announced on June 8 in New York City. The 2025 Tony Awards will also celebrate Broadway legend Harvey Fierstein, who is being honored with a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre for his contributions to the stage industry.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/04/30/what-time-are-the-2025-tony-awards-nominations-how-to-watch/