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A look at all the Broadway shows eligible for 2025 Tony Awards

Each year, the Tonys honor the best of new Broadway theatre, including plays, musicals, and revivals. Find out all the shows up for top awards this season.

Gillian Russo
Gillian Russo

Tony Awards season is coming once again. The 2025 Tony Awards ceremony will take place Sunday, June 8, once again returning to Radio City Music Hall.

Any show that opened between April 26, 2024 and April 27, 2025, with some exceptions, will be eligible for this year’s awards. This date range accommodates all shows that opened since last year's Tony Awards.

Nominees will be announced on May 1. The Tony Awards administration committee has multiple meetings to rule on which shows are eligible before nominations are announced. As such, the eligible shows listed below are subject to change, and this article will be updated as new rulings are made. Here’s a look at what we know so far about the contenders for this year’s Tony Awards.

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What Broadway shows are eligible for 2025 Tony Awards?

There are 43 shows that opened in the 2024-25 season, 42 of which are currently eligible for 2024 Tony Awards. All opened between April 26, 2024 and April 27, 2025.

Here are all of the Broadway shows that opened in the 2024-25 season. The below sections break down which are eligible for the major Tony Award categories in 2025.

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What shows are eligible for Best Musical at the 2025 Tony Awards?

Sixteen new musicals opened during the 2024-2025 Broadway season. Five of the productions featured a score of existing music, but the remaining shows have fully original scores, making them eligible for the Best Score category as well. Here are the new musicals eligible for 2025 Tony Awards.

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

The songs of Louis Armstrong power the story of the jazz legend's life, told through the perspectives of his four wives.

BOOP! The Musical

Cartoon icon Betty Boop escapes her black-and-white world for a day of flesh-and-blood adventure in New York City — in color.

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Buena Vista Social Club

This musical tells the story of the titular music group that ushered in a new golden age of Cuban music, bringing back classic sounds after the Cuban Revolution upended the music scene decades before.

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Dead Outlaw

This wild, Western true story follows Elmer McCurdy, an outlaw whose corpse was turned into a sideshow attraction and made him more famous in death than in life.

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Death Becomes Her

The musical adaptation of the Meryl Streep/Goldie Hawn horror comedy film turns the spectacle, glamour, and outrageous special effects up to the max. It follows two frenemies who take an eternal-youth potion to outdo each other.

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Just in Time

Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff stars as Bobby Darin in this bio-musical, featuring hit songs like “Beyond the Sea,” “Mack the Knife,” “Splish Splash,” and “Dream Lover.”

Check back for information on Just in Time tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

Maybe Happy Ending

This critically acclaimed robotic rom-com stars Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen as humanoid androids who spark an unexpected connection after the world has deemed them obsolete.

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Operation Mincemeat

Fresh from London, this new musical dramatizes the true story of how a covert mission involving a stolen corpse turned the tides in favor of the Allies in World War II.

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Real Women Have Curves

This musical adaptation of the acclaimed play and HBO film follows a young woman who must choose between pursuing her dreams in New York or staying with the family business and fulfilling her parents' dreams in L.A. instead.

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Redwood

Idina Menzel stars as a woman who reaches a turning point in her seemingly perfect life and escapes to the redwood forests, leaving her family and job behind for a fresh start.

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Smash

The NBC TV show that took audiences into the behind-the-scenes drama of a fictional Marilyn Monroe Broadway musical is now a Broadway musical itself, featuring many of the beloved songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, and more headline this musical revue celebrating the iconic songs of the late theatre composer Stephen Sondheim.

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Swept Away

The folk-rock music of The Avett Brothers buoyed this show about four crewmen shipwrecked in the middle of nowhere, forced to take drastic measures — and make some unexpected sacrifices — to make it out of the open seas alive.

Tammy Faye

Elton John composed this musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker and the empire she built with her husband, Jim Bakker, that soon came crumbling down, forcing Tammy to make a fresh start.

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What shows are eligible for Best Play at the 2025 Tony Awards?

A total of 14 plays are up for a nomination, including multiple critical and awards darlings from off Broadway and from London whose success propelled them to Broadway. Here are all the contenders for Best Play in 2025.

All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich

A starry, rotating cast performs short stories about all kinds of love, romance, and heartbreak, all written by Emmy nominee Simon Rich and interspersed with live music.

Cult of Love

Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Barbie Ferreira, and more play members of a dysfunctional extended family whose Christmas Eve dinner goes awry as old tensions from their religious upbringing resurface.

English

This Pulitzer Prize-winning play is set in an Iranian classroom, where adult students learning English grapple with the parts of themselves a new language unlocks for them — and causes them to lose.

Good Night, and Good Luck

George Clooney co-writes and stars in the stage adaptation of his 2005 film about journalist Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy's showdown over truth and ethics.

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Job

A therapy session turns into a standoff in this psychological thriller about a tech worker desperate to return to her taxing, dangerous job at any cost. Sydney Lemmon and Peter Friedman starred.

John Proctor Is the Villain

Stranger Things's Sadie Sink stars in this play about Georgia high school students reading The Crucible in class and questioning what they've been taught about power, gender, and authority, finding their own voices in the process.

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Left on Tenth

Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher star in the new stage adaptation of Delia Ephron's memoir, Left on Tenth. The You've Got Mail screenwriter lived a real-life rom-com as she ignited a spark with a man from her past as her health took a turn.

McNeal

Robert Downey Jr. made his Broadway debut in this play about a novelist whose familial troubles, tendency to "borrow" others' work, and obsession with A.I. casts a shadow over his celebrated career.

Oh, Mary!

Writer and star Cole Escola's breakout comedy play follows an alcoholic, yearning, acidic version of Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to her husband's assassination.

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Purpose

The latest family drama from Tony Award-winning Appropriate writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Purpose follows a powerful family of Black revolutionaries reckoning with their faith and legacy when an uninvited visitor joins one of their gatherings.

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Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Set 30 years before the events of Netflix's Stranger Things, this play provides an origin story for fan-favorite characters and the mysterious, sinister happenings in Hawkins, Indiana.

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The Hills of California

Tony and Olivier Award winner Jez Butterworth's play follows the lives of the Webb sisters, jumping back and forth from their 1950s childhood, when they were offered a chance at fame, and the 1970s, when they return to visit their dying mother and assess what became of their lives.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Emmy and Olivier Award winner Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in Kip Williams's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic novel about a man who wishes for eternal youth — a pursuit that goes wrong.

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The Roommate

Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone played unlikely roommates and even unlikelier friends who become partners in crime in their second act of life.

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What shows are eligible for Best Revival of a Musical at the 2025 Tony Awards?

Three major reinventions of classic material join two beloved musical comedies. Here are all five shows eligible for Best Revival of a Musical at the 2025 Tony Awards.

Elf The Musical

In 2004, Will Ferrell delighted audiences as Buddy the Elf, who travels from the North Pole to New York in search of his family. In 2024, the stage musical adaptation returned to New York, starring Tony Award nominee Grey Henson (Mean Girls, Shucked) as Buddy.

Floyd Collins

Jeremy Jordan stars in the title role of this musical about the first major American media circus as we know it, resulting when a cave explorer got trapped underground in 1925, making the public invested in his survival.

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Gypsy

Audra McDonald takes on the mother of all Broadway roles, Momma Rose, who pushes her daughters into fame at any cost. George C. Wolfe directs the critically acclaimed revival.

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Once Upon a Mattress

Sutton Foster starred as Princess Winnifred in this musical comedy adaptation of The Princess and the Pea, which transferred to Broadway after a limited run at New York City Center.

Pirates! The Penzance Musical

The classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance — about madcap misunderstandings involving a band of pirates, their young apprentice, and his sweetheart — has been reimagined with New Orleans-style jazz and blues stylings.

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Sunset Boulevard

Nicole Scherzinger makes her Broadway debut as obsessive, fading Hollywood star Norma Desmond in this bold, stripped-back revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical.

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The Last Five Years

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren lead the Broadway premiere of Jason Robert Brown's musical about the troubled five-year romance between a writer and an actress.

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What shows are eligible for Best Revival of a Play at the 2025 Tony Awards?

Seven play revivals, all star-studded, opened during the season. Here’s a look at the 2025 Best Revival of a Play contenders.

Eureka Day

A mumps outbreak sends a private school's board into a tizzy when it forces them to reevaluate their lax vaccine policy and make tough decisions. Jessica Hecht, Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch, and more star.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, Bill Burr, and more star in this cutthroat play about scheming real estate agents in a contest to sell the most real estate, with their jobs on the line.

Check back for information on Glengarry Glen Ross tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

Home

After his high school sweetheart marries another man, a young man takes a cross-country journey of self-discovery to find a new place, or person, to call home.

Othello

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Shakespeare's classic tragedy about a successful military commander's undoing at the hands of his jealous, conniving ensign, Iago.

Check back for information on Othello tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

Our Town

Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Richard Thomas, and more star in this revival of Our Town on Broadway, a classic play about small-town New Hampshire villagers weathering life and death.

Romeo + Juliet

Heartstopper star Kit Connor and West Side Story Golden Globe winner Rachel Zegler star in a new revival of Shakespeare's tragic star-crossed love story, featuring original songs by Jack Antonoff.

Yellow Face

Daniel Dae Kim played a version of playwright David Henry Hwang in this farce about a man who protests yellowface casting in theatre only to mistakenly cast a white man in an Asian role in his own play.

What Broadway shows are not eligible for 2025 Tony Awards?

Only one Broadway show from the 2024-25 season is not eligible for Tony Awards. This list is updated each year with the Broadway shows that will not be eligible for the Tony Awards as the eligibility committee makes these determinations.

Ben Platt: Live at the Palace

Tony Award winner Ben Platt reopened the newly renovated Palace Theatre, which had been closed for nearly six years, with a three-week concert residency. He played both original music and covers that paid tribute to iconic Palace headliners from past decades.

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