The Tony Awards were back at Radio City Music Hall for the first time since June 2019. The awards ceremony, which honors the plays and musicals staged on Broadway and resumed its traditional calendar after a long pandemic disruption, honored work that opened on Broadway between Feb. 20, 2020, and May 4, 2022. (“Girl From the North Country” opened on March 5, 2020, just a week before theaters shut down for the pandemic.)
Ariana DeBose, the former Broadway understudy turned Oscar winner, hosted the three-hour broadcast portion of the Tony Awards on CBS, which was preceded by a one-hour segment hosted by Darren Criss and Julianne Hough on Paramount+. “A Strange Loop” won best musical and “The Lehman Trilogy” was awarded best play at a glittering ceremony celebrating Broadway’s comeback. Myles Frost won his first Tony for best leading actor in a musical for “MJ,” his Broadway (and professional acting) debut. And there were performances from some of the past year’s most prominent musicals: “Company,” “Girl From the North Country” and “Paradise Square,” among others.
A complete list of winners is below.
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Natasha Katz, “MJ”
Best Sound Design of a Play
Mikhail Fiksel, “Dana H.”
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Gareth Owen, “MJ”
Best Choreography
Christopher Wheeldon, “MJ”
Best Orchestrations
Simon Hale, “Girl From the North Country”
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
Angela Lansbury
Isabelle Stevenson Award
Robert E. Wankel
Regional Theater Tony Award
Court Theater (Chicago)
Special Tony Award
James C. Nicola
Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater
Asian American Performers Action Coalition
Broadway for All
Feinstein’s/54 Below
Emily Grishman
United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE
