Background.
Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing’s 76th Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards® were announced May 2nd by the star of Funny Girl, Lea Michele, and 2022 Tony Award-winner Myles Frost.
The nominees were selected by an independent committee of 40 theatre professionals appointed by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. Each year, the Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. This year’s show will be hosted by Ariana DeBose,
The Broadcast.
The Tony Awards will air live on Sunday, June 11, 2023, from the historic United Palace in Washington Heights, in New York City, from 8:00-11:00 PM ET/5:00-8:00 PM PT on the CBS Television Network. It will also stream live and on-demand on Paramount+.
The year, CBS and Pluto TV will also present The Tony Awards: Act One, a pre-show of live, exclusive content as a lead-in to the 76th Annual Tony Awards.
The Tony Awards: Act One starts at 6:30-8:00 PM, ET/3:30-5:00 PM PT, on Pluto TV—the leading free streaming television service. Viewers can access the show on their smart TV, streaming device, mobile app, or online by going to Pluto TV and clicking on the “Pluto TV Celebrity” channel (no payment, registration, or sign-in required).
The Venue.
The United Palace (originally Loew’s 175th Street Theatre) is a theater at 4140 Broadway in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The theater, occupying a full city block bounded by Broadway, Wadsworth Avenue, and West 175th and 176th Streets, functions both as a spiritual center and as a nonprofit cultural and performing arts center.
Architect Thomas W. Lamb designed the theater as a movie palace, which opened in 1930 as one of five Loew’s Wonder Theatres in the New York City area. The theater’s lavishly eclectic interior decor was supervised by Harold Rambusch, who also designed the interior of the Roxy Theatre and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
The architectural style of the terra-cotta-faced United Palace was described as “Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco” by David W. Dunlap of the New York Times.
The Fine Print.
Legitimate theatrical productions opening in any of the 41 eligible Broadway theatres during the current season could be considered for Tony nominations. The 2022/2023 eligibility season began Thursday, May 5, 2022, and ended Thursday, April 27, 2023. Seven hundred sixty-nine designated Tony voters from within the theatre community will vote on the nominations, which cover 26 categories.
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