It's almost time for the curtain to fall. Smash will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, June 22, 2025 at the Imperial Theatre. At the time of closing, Smash will have played 32 previews and 84 regular performances. 

New York City Center's annual gala presentation will feature a production of Bat Boy: The Musical directed by two-time Tony Award winner Alex Timbers. It will run from Oct. 29 to Nov. 9, 2025. The 2026 Encores! Series will include High Spirits, The Wild Party, and La Cage Aux Folles starring Billy Porter. 

Well, we’d sure call that a happy ending. Maybe Happy Ending has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Musical. Maybe Happy Ending beat out fellow nominees Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, and Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical. It was among the most-nominated shows of the season, raking in 10 Tony Award nominations.

She’s the greatest star of all! Nicole Scherzinger has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her role as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. Scherzinger beat out fellow nominees Audra McDonald for Gypsy, Megan Hilty for Death Becomes Her, Jasmine Amy Rogers for BOOP!. and Jennifer Simard for Death Becomes Her.

Definitely a happy ending! Darren Criss has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his role in Maybe Happy Ending. Criss beat out fellow nominees Andrew Durand for Dead Outlaw, Tom Francis for Sunset Blvd., Jonathan Groff for Just in Time, James Monroe Iglehart for A Wonderful World, and Jeremy Jordan for Floyd Collins. 

She’s come home at last to win a Tony! Sunset Blvd. has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Reivial of a musical. It beats out fellow nominees Gypsy, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, and Floyd Collins. Starring Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical has been wowing audiences here in New York since opening last fall. 

They’ve made Mary Todd Lincoln proud! Cole Escola has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for their role in Oh, Mary! Escola beat out fellow nominees George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck, Jon Michael Hill for Purpose, Daniel Dae Kim for Yellow Face, Harry Lennix for Purpose, and Louis McCartney for Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

Why [not] love? Michael Arden has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for his work on Maybe Happy Ending. Arden beat out fellow nominees Saheem Ali for Buena Vista Social Club, David Cromer for Dead Outlaw, Christopher Gatelli for Death Becomes Her, and Jamie Lloyd for Sunset Boulevard.

This is one for the history books! Sam Pinkleton has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Pinkleton beat out fellow nominees Knud Adams for English, Sam Mendes for The Hills of California, Danya Taymor for John Proctor is the Villain, and Kip Williams for The Picture of Dorian Gray.

‍Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. It beat out fellow nominees Romeo + Juliet, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is on a roll! Purpose has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play! Jacobs-Jenkins' play beat out fellow nominees English, Oh, Mary!, The Hills of California, and John Proctor is the Villain. 

Natalie Venetia Belcon has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Buena Vista Social Club. Belcon beat out fellow nominees Julia Knitel for Dead Outlaw, Gracie Lawrence for Just in Time, Justina Machado for Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, and Joy Woods for Gypsy.

Kara Young has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Purpose. Young beat out fellow nominees Tala Ashe for English, Jessica Hecht for Eureka Day, Marjan Neshat for English, and Fina Strazza for John Proctor is the Villain.

Jak Malone has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical. Malone beat out fellow nominees Brooks Ashmanskas for Smash, Jeb Brown for Dead Outlaw, Taylor Trensch for Floyd Collins, and Danny Burstein for Gypsy.

Francis Jue has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role in Yellow Face. Jue beat out fellow nominees Glenn Davis for Purpose, Gabriel Ebert for John Proctor is the Villain, Bob Odenkirk for Glengarry Glen Ross, and Conrad Ricamora for Oh, Mary!. 

Sarah Snook has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Snook beat out fellow nominees Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California, Mia Farrow for The Roommate, LaTanya Richardson Jackson for Purpose, and Sadie Sink for John Proctor is the Villain.

It’s a happy Tony beginning for Will Aroson and Hue Park, who have won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for their work on Maybe Happy Ending. The pair beat out fellow nominees Marco Ramirez for Buena Vista Social Club; Marco Pennette for Death Becomes Her; Itamar Moses for Dead Outlaw; and David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts for Operation Mincemeat.

They’ve made Hwaboon proud! Will Aronson and Hue Park have won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Original Score for their work on Maybe Happy Ending. The pair beat out fellow nominees Julia Mattison and Noel Carey for Death Becomes Her, David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna for Dead Outlaw, David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts for Operation Mincemeat, and Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez for Real Women Have Curves: The Musical.

Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck have won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Choreography for their work on Buena Vista Social Club. The pair beat out fellow nominees Joshua Bergasse for Smash, Jerry Mitchell for BOOP! The Musical, Camille A. Brown for Gypsy, and Christopher Gatteli for Death Becomes Her.

The winners have been announced for the 2025 Tony Awards here at the 78th Annual Celebration of the Best of Broadway at Radio City hosted by Cynthia Erivo. See the full list of winners here.

A limited number of mezzanine tickets are available for purchase for the 78th Annual Tony Awards via digital lottery. Winners will be able to purchase the seats for $495 each. 

You gotta catch a potential audience’s attention in any way possible these days. From massive social campaigns to wild in-person activations, folks are trying everything. But one performance is trying a different route. Not telling you anything about it! For the past few weeks, some mysterious Instagram account has popped up with the username @_____comingsoon______ and has been posting mysterious photos including balloons and an upside down wheelbarrow. The account follows only two individuals: actor and playwright Bubba Weiler and Theatrely31 alum Jack Serio. Serio recently helmed Ken Urban’s intimate Danger and Opportunity at the East Village Basement which won two special Drama Desk Awards in the past few weeks. 

The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal will star in the new Broadway play Dog Day Afternoon in Spring 2026.

Second Stage Theater's 2025 season will include two Pulitzer Prize finalist plays on Broadway at the Hayes Theater.

Beetlejuice will make its return to the Broadway stage at the Palace Theatre for a limited 13-week engagement from Oct. 8, 2025 to Jan. 3, 2026. The First National Tour of the popular musical will reach its final resting place on the great white way. Tickets go on sale Tuesday June 3 at 10 a.m.

Kara Young and Kerry Washington will take the stage in a series of monologues written by Whoopi Goldberg as part of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2025-2026 season. The season marks the first full for new artistic director Lear deBessonet, who directed this season’s Once Upon a Mattress and the hit Into the Woods revival at New York City Center.

It was an incredible night celebrating the best of the New York theatre season at NYU Skirball at the 2025 Drama Desk Awards. Maybe Happy Ending won big with six awards including Outstanding Musical. Boop!, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, and The Picture of Dorian Gray each went home with three awards. Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess hosted the ceremony which celebrates the best of the 2024/2025 theatre season here in New York.