US EditionTony Awards laud android rom-com ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ and history-making ‘Purpose’
- The 78th annual Tony Awards were held on June 8, 2025, at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, celebrating outstanding achievements in Broadway theater.
- The Broadway debut of the musical featuring two androids developed from a South Korean production dominated the awards with 10 nominations and took home six Tony Awards.
- The musical won six Tonys, including Best Musical, Best Book, Best Original Score, and Darren Criss received Best Leading Actor in a Musical.
- Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won Best Play for Purpose, becoming the first Black playwright since 1987 to receive this award, with Kara Young awarded Best Featured Actress.
- The event featured a Hamilton cast reunion for its 10th anniversary and was hosted by Cynthia Erivo, underscoring a landmark Broadway season with record grosses of $1.89 billion.
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Maybe Happy Ending' wins big at Tony Awards
Maybe Happy Ending, a sweet and futuristic story that follows two obsolete helper robots as they navigate isolation, affection, and what it means to be human, was the big musical winner at the Tony Awards on Sunday, capping a record-grossing post-pandemic Broadway theatre season. The show won three big awards, including best musical. Darren Criss won his first Tony for best leading actor in a musical for his role as the innocent Oliver, and its …
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So, in the end, it wasn’t so much Oh, Mary! as it was Not Tonight, Mary! Cole Escola’s out-there, queer-as-they-come farce, revolving around the strained relationship between the “foul and hateful” Mary Lincoln, a dipsomaniac with ambitions to be a cabaret singer, and honest Abe, here presented as a pitiful figure so deep in the closet he may as well be in Narnia, was widely regarded as the play to beat at this year’s Tonys. There hasn’t been an…
‘Maybe Happy Ending’ tops Broadway’s Tony Awards
Maybe Happy Ending, a South Korean musical adapted for Broadway about two robots who find connection, won big at Sunday’s Tony Awards, scooping up six prizes at the gala celebrating the best in American theater.Stars of the season Cole Escola and Nicole Scherzinger also won their first Tonys, on a night that celebrated Broadway’s revival...
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