Kara Young accepts the award for best featured actress in a play for "Purpose" onstage during the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York on June 8, 2025.

WBBM’s Carolina Garibay recaps the 2025 Tony Awards, where the Steppenwolf Theatre’s production of “Purpose” won two awards after premiering in Chicago in 2024.

The Tony Awards featured performances from the above nominated musicals as well as Dead Outlaw, Floyd Collins, Gypsy, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Just in Time ...

Kara Young accepts the Tony Award for best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play for “Purpose” onstage during the 78th Annual Tony Awards telecast Sunday night from New York City.

NEW YORK — “Purpose,” a drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that was commissioned and first produced by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, has won the Tony Award for best play in an awards ...

"Maybe Happy Ending" won big at the 2025 Tony Awards, taking home six awards, including the coveted Best Musical.

The biggest? Best Actress in a Musical ladies Nicole Scherzinger in “Sunset Blvd.” vs. Audra McDonald in “Gypsy,” and the biggest diva showdown in recent memory ended up in victory for the former ...

Home Awards News Tony Award Winners: ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Takes Best Musical & Five Others; ‘Purpose’ Best Play; Scherzinger, Criss, Snook & Escola Get Lead Acting Prizes – Full List ...

Maybe Happy Ending,” a rom-com about androids that crackles with humanity, had a definite happy ending at Sunday's Tony Awards. It won best new musical on a night when Kara Young made history as the ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The best new play trophy at Sunday's Tony Awards went to "Purpose," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family exposing hypocrisy and pressures ...

Kara Young accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play for “Purpose” during the 78th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8, 2025, at Radio City Music Hall in New ...