Plot Synopsis

Each year since 1947, The American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League have jointly presented the TONY AWARDS to honor the best Broadway productions and performances during the previous year. Named for Antoinette Perry, an actress, director, producer, and the dynamic wartime leader of the American Theatre Wing, the Tony Awards made their official debut at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1947. Television coverage began in 1956 when Du Mont's Channel 5 telecast them locally for the first time, and WCBS in New York broadcast The Tonys locally before they were carried nationally in 1967, when a national audience could watch the presentation of Tony Awards for the first time. CBS began carrying the broadcast in 1978, and has aired the Tonys every year since.
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THE 76TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS, with Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose, airs live from the historic United Palace in New York City's Washington Heights, Sunday, June 11, 2023 from 8-11pm ET/5-8pm PT on CBS and streams on demand on Paramount+.

"The Tony Awards: Act One" (6:30-8pm ET/3:30-5pm PT on Pluto TV): Hosts Julianne Hough and Skylar Astin kick off the evening celebrating the 2023 Tony Awards, with a live pre-show of exclusive content that is available to viewers for free on Pluto TV.

"The 76th Annual Tony Awards" (8-11pm ET/5-8pm PT on CBS and Paramount+): Ariana DeBose hosts the show, featuring showstopping performances from the casts of Tony Award nominated best musicals and revivals, including "Camelot"; "Into the Woods"; "& Juliet"; "Kimberly Akimbo"; "New York, New York"; "Parade"; "Shucked"; "Some Like It Hot"; and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." Also, the show will feature performances from Joaquina Kalukango, the winner of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical; the cast of "A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical"; the cast of "Funny Girl"; and a special performance for the 2023 Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre recipients, Joel Grey and John Kander.