How to Watch the 2025 Tony Awards Online Without Cable for Free
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The 78th annual Tony Awards takes place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday (June 8), and airs live from coast-to-coast on CBS and livestream on Paramount+ with Showtime.
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For 2025, Tony Award-winning actress Cynthia Erivo host the ceremony, which starts at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
watch the 78th Tony Awards on Paramount+ With Showtime
The 2025 Tony Awards airs live on CBS and livestreams Paramount+ with Showtime. If you don't already have a Paramount+ subscription, join today and enjoy a seven-day free trial.
Paramount+ with Showtime does for $12.99 per month (or $119.99 per year), while it grants you access to Paramount+ streaming service and Showtime originals and events — as well as live and local CBS stations. With Paramount+ with Showtime, you'll get access to a vast selection of TV shows and movies, NFL on CBS, soccer, local CBS stations, and 24-hour news with CBSN.
Please note: You have to subscribe to Paramount+ with Showtime to watch the 78th Tony Awards live. Paramount+ Essential subscribers can watch the awards ceremony the following day on Monday (June 9).
watch the 78th Tony Awards on Paramount+ With Showtime
Paramount+ is also available as an add-on channel on Prime Video.
From movies and acclaimed originals to live sports, stream exclusives from BET, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, The Smithsonian Channel and more on Paramount+. Some of the programs on the platform are Knuckles, Seal Team, The Family Stone, 1883, Ru-Paul's Drag Race All Stars, Mayor of Kingstown, Criminal Minds: Evolution, Evil and The Challenge: All Stars. Subscribers can stream CBS shows such as Ghosts, Survivor and NCIS.
Paramount+ has a bunch of music programs, documentaries and specials, including How Music Got Free, From the Cradle to the Stage, Family Legacy, Queens of the Universe and Behind the Music.
Aside from original series, musicals and reality TV, Paramount+ subscribers can stream Bob Marley: One Love, Good Burger 2, Scream VI, Top Gun: Maverick and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning.
Need more ways to watch the 2025 Tony Awards? Local CBS stations can be accessed through streaming platforms such as DirecTV and Fubo, which offer free trials; Hulu + Live TV, and ExpressVPN if you're streaming outside of the U.S.
watch the 78th Tony Awards on Paramount+ With Showtime
The show features performances from the casts of Tony-nominated best musicals, such as Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, Maybe Happy Ending and Operation Mincemeat.
Additional performers include a 10-year reunion with the casts of Hamilton, as well as honoring the recipients of the 2025 Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, actor and writer Harvey Fierstein.
Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending are all tied in earning the year's most Tony nominations, at 10 nods each. Read on for ways to watch and stream the show from anywhere.
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