2025 Tony Awards set date as telecast returns to Radio City Music Hall

The 2025 Tony Awards have announced a date and venue. After moving its annual ceremony uptown for the past two years, the kudos are set to return to Radio City Music Hall this spring. The 78th Annual Tony Awards will take place on Sunday, June 8 2025.

Theater aficionados will surely be happy to see this celebration of Broadway return to the glitzy midtown venue. In 2023, producers moved the production to the United Palace in Washington Heights. Host Ariana DeBose led a thrilling dance piece through the gilded lobbies to open the ceremony (performed wordlessly due to an active writer’s strike), but this move uptown provided logistical challenges for shows performing on the telecast. In 2024, the Tonys were hosted at the intimate David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, but the house’s limited 2,500 person capacity meant tickets were scarce and some producers could only waive from the lobby as their shows won top categories.

By contrast, Radio City Music Hall boasts a massive 6,000 seat capacity. There is ample space for all nominees and guests, as well as tickets for the public. The 2025 telecast will be the 21st Tony ceremony hosted at this venue.

The 2025 telecast will air live on both coasts from the famed art deco hall on CBS. The show will also stream live on Paramount+ for Showtime-level subscribers, and on-demand for Essential-level subscribers. The broadcast will begin at 8:00pm ET.

In recent years, the Tony Awards have been split into two live events. A live “Act One” presentation has preceded the main ceremony, where below-the-line categories were presented. Today’s announcement gave no word as to whether the “Act One” portion would return.

Also missing from the announcement was an official eligibility cutoff date for the 2024-2025 Broadway season. In many recent seasons, the last day of eligibility has fallen on the final Thursday of April. That would fall on April 24 this season, which is the scheduled opening night for Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of “The Pirates of Penzance.” There are currently no productions scheduled to open after this date, but we can be sure that this final week will eventually burst at the seams with openings once the eligibility cutoff is set.

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