The 79th Annual Tony Awards return to Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7, 2026, broadcast live on CBS and streamed on Paramount+ from 8 to 11 p.m. Eastern. [1] Three-time Grammy winner P!nk hosts, having never appeared on Broadway in any capacity (the announcement video featured her briefly sneaking onstage during the curtain call of The Great Gatsby musical). [2] Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster — $731.80 for third mezzanine, $936.60 for second mezzanine. The paper's Tuesday account covered the nominations slate. Today's confirmation is the venue and the broadcast architecture.
Raj Kapoor, Sarah Levine Hall and Jack Sussman produce, with Kapoor and Levine Hall as co-showrunners and Patrick Menton as head of talent. [3] P!nk follows Cynthia Erivo (2025) and Ariana DeBose (three years prior). The choice is a deliberate shift in audience direction — toward a broader casual broadcast viewership and away from the cinephile-theatergoer overlap Erivo's hosting cultivated. CBS senior VP of specials Mackenzie Mitchell called the booking "an inspired choice for this year's Tony Awards on CBS." Whether the inspired choice produces ratings inflation will be measurable Sunday night. The Tony broadcast averaged just under 4 million live-plus-same-day viewers in 2025, the lowest in the show's broadcast history. [4]
The press story the broadcast cannot avoid is Whitney White. She is the first Black woman ever twice-nominated for Best Direction of a Play, on Liberation and (in 2024) Jaja's African Hair Braiding, and she is the only woman in the Best Direction of a Play field this year. [5] Gold Derby's expert composite has Liberation leading Best Play by 0.33 percent over Giant; the experts split 13-to-3 in favor of Liberation. June Squibb is the oldest acting nominee in Tony history at 96, for Marjorie Prime. Liberation itself closed on February 1. P!nk will host a broadcast about a Broadway season most of whose nominated work is no longer onstage. That is the actual structural story underneath the marketing.
-- MAYA CALLOWAY, New York