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    The Tonys host is Cynthia Erivo.

    Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” scheduled to run through June 29.Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesFor her madcap, one-woman take on a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Sarah Snook is this year’s best actress in a play winner. Though she plays 26 roles, she’ll get just one Tony statuette.Over the course of the show’s two frenetic hours, the actress, 37, best known for her Emmy-winning turn as Logan Roy’s girlboss daughter, Shiv, on HBO’s dark comedy-drama “Succession,” plays all the characters, among them a handsome rake, a martini-sipping libertine and a hapless artist.The audience gets a close-up view of Snook on a large, rectangular screen that hangs from the top of the stage as cameras follow her rushing around the stage, de-wigging and re-wigging, and interacting with prerecorded versions of herself.“It’s about concealing and revealing, putting on masks, taking off masks,” Snook, who made her Broadway debut in the show, told The New York Times this spring. “It’s about having your soul be seen.”Snook originally performed the show last year in London’s West End, where she won the Olivier Award and where critics praised the production’s clever camerawork and Snook’s chameleonic, playful embodiment of the various characters.Critics in the United States were more measured: Writing in The Times, Jesse Green praised her “convincing and compelling” characterizations, yet noted that the copious use of technology left the production feeling “brittle,” “often denying the human contact, and contract, that are at the heart of theater’s effectiveness.” (Though the production, he noted, was “technologically spectacular.”) More

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    Four former Seymours scored Tony nominations.

    Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” scheduled to run through June 29.Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesFor her madcap, one-woman take on a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Sarah Snook is this year’s best actress in a play winner. Though she plays 26 roles, she’ll get just one Tony statuette.Over the course of the show’s two frenetic hours, the actress, 37, best known for her Emmy-winning turn as Logan Roy’s girlboss daughter, Shiv, on HBO’s dark comedy-drama “Succession,” plays all the characters, among them a handsome rake, a martini-sipping libertine and a hapless artist.The audience gets a close-up view of Snook on a large, rectangular screen that hangs from the top of the stage as cameras follow her rushing around the stage, de-wigging and re-wigging, and interacting with prerecorded versions of herself.“It’s about concealing and revealing, putting on masks, taking off masks,” Snook, who made her Broadway debut in the show, told The New York Times this spring. “It’s about having your soul be seen.”Snook originally performed the show last year in London’s West End, where she won the Olivier Award and where critics praised the production’s clever camerawork and Snook’s chameleonic, playful embodiment of the various characters.Critics in the United States were more measured: Writing in The Times, Jesse Green praised her “convincing and compelling” characterizations, yet noted that the copious use of technology left the production feeling “brittle,” “often denying the human contact, and contract, that are at the heart of theater’s effectiveness.” (Though the production, he noted, was “technologically spectacular.”) More

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    41 Tony nominees on the obstacles that shaped them.

    Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” scheduled to run through June 29.Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesFor her madcap, one-woman take on a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Sarah Snook is this year’s best actress in a play winner. Though she plays 26 roles, she’ll get just one Tony statuette.Over the course of the show’s two frenetic hours, the actress, 37, best known for her Emmy-winning turn as Logan Roy’s girlboss daughter, Shiv, on HBO’s dark comedy-drama “Succession,” plays all the characters, among them a handsome rake, a martini-sipping libertine and a hapless artist.The audience gets a close-up view of Snook on a large, rectangular screen that hangs from the top of the stage as cameras follow her rushing around the stage, de-wigging and re-wigging, and interacting with prerecorded versions of herself.“It’s about concealing and revealing, putting on masks, taking off masks,” Snook, who made her Broadway debut in the show, told The New York Times this spring. “It’s about having your soul be seen.”Snook originally performed the show last year in London’s West End, where she won the Olivier Award and where critics praised the production’s clever camerawork and Snook’s chameleonic, playful embodiment of the various characters.Critics in the United States were more measured: Writing in The Times, Jesse Green praised her “convincing and compelling” characterizations, yet noted that the copious use of technology left the production feeling “brittle,” “often denying the human contact, and contract, that are at the heart of theater’s effectiveness.” (Though the production, he noted, was “technologically spectacular.”) More

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    The Muny in St. Louis is receiving the regional theater award.

    Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” scheduled to run through June 29.Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesFor her madcap, one-woman take on a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Sarah Snook is this year’s best actress in a play winner. Though she plays 26 roles, she’ll get just one Tony statuette.Over the course of the show’s two frenetic hours, the actress, 37, best known for her Emmy-winning turn as Logan Roy’s girlboss daughter, Shiv, on HBO’s dark comedy-drama “Succession,” plays all the characters, among them a handsome rake, a martini-sipping libertine and a hapless artist.The audience gets a close-up view of Snook on a large, rectangular screen that hangs from the top of the stage as cameras follow her rushing around the stage, de-wigging and re-wigging, and interacting with prerecorded versions of herself.“It’s about concealing and revealing, putting on masks, taking off masks,” Snook, who made her Broadway debut in the show, told The New York Times this spring. “It’s about having your soul be seen.”Snook originally performed the show last year in London’s West End, where she won the Olivier Award and where critics praised the production’s clever camerawork and Snook’s chameleonic, playful embodiment of the various characters.Critics in the United States were more measured: Writing in The Times, Jesse Green praised her “convincing and compelling” characterizations, yet noted that the copious use of technology left the production feeling “brittle,” “often denying the human contact, and contract, that are at the heart of theater’s effectiveness.” (Though the production, he noted, was “technologically spectacular.”) More

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    Who is going to win tonight?

    Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” scheduled to run through June 29.Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesFor her madcap, one-woman take on a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Sarah Snook is this year’s best actress in a play winner. Though she plays 26 roles, she’ll get just one Tony statuette.Over the course of the show’s two frenetic hours, the actress, 37, best known for her Emmy-winning turn as Logan Roy’s girlboss daughter, Shiv, on HBO’s dark comedy-drama “Succession,” plays all the characters, among them a handsome rake, a martini-sipping libertine and a hapless artist.The audience gets a close-up view of Snook on a large, rectangular screen that hangs from the top of the stage as cameras follow her rushing around the stage, de-wigging and re-wigging, and interacting with prerecorded versions of herself.“It’s about concealing and revealing, putting on masks, taking off masks,” Snook, who made her Broadway debut in the show, told The New York Times this spring. “It’s about having your soul be seen.”Snook originally performed the show last year in London’s West End, where she won the Olivier Award and where critics praised the production’s clever camerawork and Snook’s chameleonic, playful embodiment of the various characters.Critics in the United States were more measured: Writing in The Times, Jesse Green praised her “convincing and compelling” characterizations, yet noted that the copious use of technology left the production feeling “brittle,” “often denying the human contact, and contract, that are at the heart of theater’s effectiveness.” (Though the production, he noted, was “technologically spectacular.”) More

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    Here’s what to see on Broadway (and beyond) this summer.

    Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” scheduled to run through June 29.Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesFor her madcap, one-woman take on a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Sarah Snook is this year’s best actress in a play winner. Though she plays 26 roles, she’ll get just one Tony statuette.Over the course of the show’s two frenetic hours, the actress, 37, best known for her Emmy-winning turn as Logan Roy’s girlboss daughter, Shiv, on HBO’s dark comedy-drama “Succession,” plays all the characters, among them a handsome rake, a martini-sipping libertine and a hapless artist.The audience gets a close-up view of Snook on a large, rectangular screen that hangs from the top of the stage as cameras follow her rushing around the stage, de-wigging and re-wigging, and interacting with prerecorded versions of herself.“It’s about concealing and revealing, putting on masks, taking off masks,” Snook, who made her Broadway debut in the show, told The New York Times this spring. “It’s about having your soul be seen.”Snook originally performed the show last year in London’s West End, where she won the Olivier Award and where critics praised the production’s clever camerawork and Snook’s chameleonic, playful embodiment of the various characters.Critics in the United States were more measured: Writing in The Times, Jesse Green praised her “convincing and compelling” characterizations, yet noted that the copious use of technology left the production feeling “brittle,” “often denying the human contact, and contract, that are at the heart of theater’s effectiveness.” (Though the production, he noted, was “technologically spectacular.”) More

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    How to watch the Tony Awards.

    The televised portion of this year’s Tony Awards starts at 8 p.m. Eastern (5 p.m. Pacific) on CBS. Cynthia Erivo will host the ceremony at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan.Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesThe Tony Awards, the annual event honoring the best work on Broadway, take place tonight (Sunday, June 8). This is the 78th Tony Awards ceremony.Here’s how to watch:What time does the show start?The televised portion of the ceremony starts at 8 p.m. Eastern (5 p.m. Pacific) at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. The broadcast is scheduled to last three hours.Where can I watch?The main event, with prizes for plays, musicals and performers, will be televised on CBS. For those without network television, it’s a bit more complicated: In the United States, it will stream on Paramount+, but only Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers can stream it live, via their local CBS affiliate; otherwise it can be streamed on demand starting the next day.Who is hosting?The broadcast ceremony will be hosted by Cynthia Erivo, a powerhouse singer best known for starring as Elphaba in the “Wicked” films. She is a Tony winner herself, for a 2015 revival of “The Color Purple.” The broadcast will feature performances by 11 of this past season’s Broadway musicals, as well as by the original cast of “Hamilton” in honor of that show’s 10th anniversary. The presenters will include Oprah Winfrey, Charli D’Amelio, Bryan Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson, Adam Lambert and Keanu Reeves.Is there a non-broadcast portion of the ceremony?Yes. There is a preshow ceremony, starting at 6:40 p.m. Eastern, at which many of the awards for creative teams will be handed out. That event will be hosted by Darren Criss and Renée Elise Goldsberry, and can be streamed free on Pluto TV (click on the “Live Music” channel in the “Entertainment” category).What’s eligible?The 21 plays and 21 musicals that opened on Broadway between April 26, 2024, and April 27, 2025, are eligible for awards this year. Prizes will be granted in 26 competitive categories. The most-nominated shows are the musicals “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending,” with 10 nominations each. More

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    Here’s what to expect at tonight’s ceremony.

    The Tony Awards are Broadway’s biggest night, when the latest plays and musicals are introduced to a television audience of several million, any of whom might turn into a theater lover, a ticket buyer, or even an artist (so many Broadway performers and producers have stories about watching the Tony Awards as children). Here’s what to expect:The ceremony is being hosted by Cynthia Erivo, who won a Tony Award in 2016 for her breakout performance in a revival of “The Color Purple” and was nominated this year for an Oscar for playing Elphaba in the “Wicked” film adaptation. In the years since winning the Tony, Erivo, a 38-year-old British actress, has focused on movies, television and music — she has just released her second studio album and the second “Wicked” film comes out Nov. 21.After the Tony Awards, she’ll be returning to the stage. In August she’s playing Jesus in a one-weekend run of “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and then early next year she’ll star in a one-woman version of “Dracula” in London’s West End.Who will be performing?Much of the excitement is likely to focus on a 10th anniversary performance by the entire original cast of “Hamilton,” which is Broadway’s last huge hit. The number is expected to be a medley of the show’s best-known songs.All five shows nominated for best new musical will perform songs from their shows: “Buena Vista Social Club,” about a group of Cuban musicians; “Dead Outlaw,” about a bandit and his outlandish afterlife; “Death Becomes Her,” about two women whose quest for eternal youth has comical consequences; “Maybe Happy Ending,” about a relationship between two involuntarily retired robots; and “Operation Mincemeat,” about a bizarre British counterintelligence operation.The four shows nominated for best musical revival are also performing, including “Floyd Collins,” about a trapped cave explorer; “Gypsy,” about a stripper’s stage mother; “Pirates!” about a lovelorn buccaneer; and “Sunset Boulevard,” about a faded film star.There will also be performances by two other new musicals: “Just in Time,” about the singer Bobby Darin, and “Real Women Have Curves,” which explores immigrant experiences through the eyes of a young woman.Sara Bareilles will join Erivo to perform during the In Memoriam segment, and the choir Broadway Inspirational Voices will join Erivo for the opening number.Who is presenting?There will be lots of household names introducing shows and presenting awards. Among them: Oprah Winfrey, Samuel L. Jackson, Keanu Reeves, Adam Lambert, Michelle Williams, Bryan Cranston, Ben Stiller, Jean Smart, Lea Michele, Danielle Brooks, Lea Salonga and Sarah Paulson. Lin-Manuel Miranda is expected to present the award for best musical.Who will win?The most-nominated shows are the musicals “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending,” each with 10 nods. The prizes are likely to be quite spread out, but “Maybe Happy Ending,” “Sunset Boulevard” and the play “Oh, Mary!” seem certain to get some love from voters.Many celebrities performed on Broadway this season, but several of them were not nominated for Tony Awards, and others are not likely to win. One star favored to go home with a statuette: Sarah Snook, best known for HBO’s “Succession,” is expected to win a Tony Award for playing every character in a stage adaptation of “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” More