Ariana DeBose Returning to Host the 2024 Tony Awards for the Third Year in a Row

Mar. 15, 2025

Ariana DeBose at the 2023 Tony Awards.Photo:Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions

Ariana DeBoseis pulling a Tony Awards hat trick.

For the third time in a row, the stage actress and Oscar winner will host the honors, which recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

The 2024 Tony Awards, the 77th annual in the show’s history, will air live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City on Sunday, June 16 (8 p.m. ET) on CBS and Paramount+.

“I couldn’t pass up the chance to host the Tonys one more time at Lincoln Center," said DeBose, who in addition to being the evening’s emcee will also serve as a producer for the program and will choreograph the opening number. “I’m excited to collaborate with the team to create an incredible celebration of this season’s achievements on Broadway for our community and for everyone at home.”

Ariana DeBose hosting the 2022 Tony Awards.Theo Wargo/Getty

DeBose was nominated for a Tony Award for her role as Donna Summer inSummer: The Donna Summer Musical. She made her Broadway debut inBring It On: The Musicalin 2011, and went on to appear inMotown: The Musical(2013),Pippin(2014),Hamilton(from 2015 to 2016) andA Bronx Tale(2016 to 2017).

Her Oscar aside, for playing Anita in Steven Spielberg’sWest Side Story, DeBose earned an Emmy Award nomination for the 75th annual Tony Awards in 2022.

Ariana DeBose hosting the 2023 Tony Awards.Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

A whopping 15 new musicals opened this season, a historic number as typically there are only half that. The closest that came was in 2017, when the number hit 13.

The cast of ‘The Outsiders’.Miller Mobley

Miller Mobley

Only a selection of those will be open come nominations time, withDays of Wine and Roses,Harmony,Here Lies Love,How to Dance in OhioandOnce Upon a One More Timealready closed.

As far as revivals are concerned, the 2023-2024 season included fresh productions of a crop of beloved musicals and plays.

For musicals,Cabaret,Gutenberg! The Musical!,Merrily We Roll Along,Spamalot,The Who’s Tommy, andThe Wizwill all be up for a nomination. And for plays, the nominees will be chosen from Henrik Ibsen’sAn Enemy of the People, Branden Jacobs Jenkins’Appropriate,John Patrick Shanley’sDoubt, Ossie Davis’Purlie Victoriousand Anton Chekhov’sUncle Vanya.

Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez in ‘Merrily We Roll Along’.John Nacion/Shutterstock

John Nacion/Shutterstock

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Other shows that were part of the 2023-2024 Broadway seasons includedEl Mago Pop, Spain’s magic spectacular show fromAntonio Díaz, the highest-grossing European illusionist in the world. AndMelissa Etheridge’s rock concert-memoir hybridMelissa Etheridge: My Window.

source: people.com