Tony awards 2025: red carpet looks and best of the show
On the prowl: Hamilton actor Sydney James Harcourt vamps in a slinky animal print number. Photograph: Sarah Yenesel/EPA
Sarah Paulson, who won last year's lead actress Tony for her role in the play Appropriate. Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
Dashing duo: Amal Clooney and George Clooney. The latter was up for his first Tony – for his role in Good Night and Good Luck. Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
Danielle Brooks eared a 2016 Tony nomination for her Broadway debut in The Color Purple. Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
Anna Wintour showed off her signature bob together with her daughter, film producer Bee Shaffer. Photograph: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images
Sarah Snook won the Tony for best actress, performing all 26 roles in The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Sydney theatre company one-woman show that has become a Broadway hit. Photograph: John Nacion/Variety/Getty Images
Tony mainstay Cynthia Erivo wore a pearlescent gown from Schiaparelli. The actor and singer was recently announced as the star in the West End transfer of Sydney theatre company's Dracula production. Photograph: WWD/Getty Images
Multiple Tony nominee David Cumming, who was up for best book and best original score for his writing on Operation Mincemeat. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
Tony nominee Darren Criss and Tony winner Renée Elise Goldsberry hosted the first section – or first act – of this year's awards. Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
Taylor Trensch in a bowtie and shorts. Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
Actor and advocate Celia Keenan-Bolger accepted the Isabelle Stevenson award, given in recognition of volunteering and humanitarian work. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Ready for her close-up: Sunset Boulevard's leading lady Nicole Scherzinger. Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
Australian Marg Horwell accepted the award for best costume design for The Picture of Dorian Gray. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Six-time Tony winner Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose most recent honour was a lifetime achievement award in 2018. Photograph:Spreading her wings: Megan Hilty and the cast of Death Becomes Her performed an extravagant number on stage. Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
Jak Malone won an acting award for their role in Operation Mincemeat. Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
Harvey Fierstein accepted a lifetime achievement award. He won his first Tony in 1982 for writing Torch Song Trilogy. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Paul Tazewell accepted best costume design of a musical for Death Becomes Her. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Jamie Lloyd was up for best direction of a musical for Sunset Boulevard, stepping out on the red carpet with actor Brandon LaVar. Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
Three-time Tony winner Glenn Close and Keanu Reeves. Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
Miriam Buether and Benjamin Pearcy posed with their award for best scenic design of a play for Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
David Oquendo, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Marco Paguia, Renesito Avich and the cast of Buena Vista Social Club, which led nominations with 10 nods at the Tonys. Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
Jonathan Groff performed a number from Just in Time, a jukebox musical honouring Bobby Darin. Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
Sarah Snook accepted her award for Dorian Gray. 'This means so much for a little Australian girl,' she said from the podium, thanking her husband for 'holding down the fort and keeping our family together'. Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
Renesito Avich poses with the Special Tony award for 'Buena Vista Social Club' Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
Leslie Odom Jr and the cast of Hamilton.
Photograph:for Tony Awards Productions
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