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Here are the winners from the 2025 Tony Awards
The best new play trophy at the Tony Awards went to “Purpose,” while “Maybe Happy Ending” took home the award for best new musical.
He hoped his win could be a powerful advocacy for trans rights.“Eureka Day,” Jonathan Spector’s social satire about well-meaning liberals debating a school’s vaccine policy, won the best play revival trophy. “Provided we don’t run out of cast members from ‘Succession,’” a nod to appearances this season by former co-stars Snook and Kieran Culkin and last season by Jeremy Strong.She and Sara Bareilles dueted for a moving in memoriam section, singing “The Sun Will Come Out” from “Annie,” and honoring its composer Charles Strouse as well as George Wendt, Richard Chamberlain, Athol Fugard, Joan Plowright, Quincy Jones, Linda Lavin, James Earl Jones and Gavin Creel.Erivo was an amiable host, at one point appearing in the second mezzanine to comment that everyone likes the view from theater balconies — except perhaps Abraham Lincoln. The musical takes its inspiration from Wim Wenders’ 1999 Oscar-nominated documentary on the making of the Cuban album.Best costumes in a play went to Marg Hornwell for “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” while “Death Becomes Her” won the musical counterpart, a win for Paul Tazewell in a year where he also became the first Black man to win an Oscar for designing costumes, for “Wicked.”“I have dressed so many of you out there,” he said from the podium.Harvey Fierstein, the four-time Tony winner behind “Torch Song Trilogy” and “Kinky Boots,” was honored with a lifetime achievement Tony and became emotional during his speech: “There is nothing quite like bathing in the applause of a curtain call, but when I bow, I bow to the audience, with gratitude, knowing that without them I might as well be lip-syncing showtunes in my bedroom mirror.
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