P!nk to host 2026 Tony Awards

P!NK will host the 79th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, at Radio City Music Hall in New York, according to Tony Award Productions and Deadline. The ceremony will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+, with a separate live pre-show added this year before the main telecast. (yahoo.com) The announcement puts a pop star with no Broadway performance credits at the center of theater’s biggest night, though Tony Award Productions called P!NK a “lifelong theater fan” when it named her host in April. The June 7 ceremony will honor Broadway productions from the 2025-26 season. (deadline.com) ### When and where is the show airing? June 7 is the date for both the pre-show and the main ceremony. Deadline reported that the Tonys will be carried on CBS and available to stream on Paramount+, while the official Tony Awards site said the ceremony will take place at Radio City Music Hall. (tonyawards.com) Laura Benanti and Tituss Burgess will host “The Tony Awards: Act One,” a free-streaming pre-show on Pluto TV that begins at 6:35 p.m. ET, Yahoo reported. The main telecast follows later that evening with P!NK as host. (tonyawards.com) ### Why is P!NK the central booking this year? Tony Award Productions announced P!NK as host on April 9 and said she would bring her “performance skills and magnetic stage presence” to the ceremony. Billboard, citing the same announcement, reported that P!NK called the job “the honor of an entire lifetime.” (deadline.com) Deadline noted that P!NK is an unusual choice in a Broadway season filled with stage names and screen actors because she has never appeared on Broadway. The official Tony Awards release framed the decision around her theater fandom rather than stage credits. (yahoo.com) ### Which shows are leading the nominations? “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” are the top nominees with 12 nominations each, according to Yahoo and Playbill’s full nominations list. “Ragtime” follows with 11 nominations, while “Death of a Salesman,” “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” and “The Rocky Horror Show” each received nine. (tonyawards.com) The nominations were announced on May 5, not June 2. Playbill said the awards will recognize work from the 2025-26 Broadway season, and 24 shows received at least one nomination across 26 categories. (deadline.com) ### Who is scheduled to perform on the broadcast? Queen Latifah, Whitney Leavitt and Alex Newell are among the announced performers, Playbill reported. The outlet said the ceremony will include a “Chicago” 30th-anniversary number featuring P!NK, Queen Latifah, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julianne Hough, Whitney Leavitt, Dylan Mulvaney and others. (yahoo.com) Broadway News reported that all nominees for best musical and best revival of a musical are scheduled to perform during the ceremony. (playbill.com) That lineup includes casts from “The Lost Boys,” “Schmigadoon!,” “Titanique,” “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),” “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” “Chess” and “Ragtime.” ### What should viewers watch for on June 7? Radio City Music Hall will host the ceremony as Broadway closes out its 2025-26 awards season on June 7. The night will combine the P!NK-hosted main telecast, the Pluto TV “Act One” pre-show with Benanti and Burgess, and performances tied to both the nominated musicals and the “Chicago” anniversary tribute. (playbill.com) CBS and Paramount+ will carry the main show on June 7, while Pluto TV will stream the pre-show earlier that evening. Winners in the 26 Tony categories will be announced during the ceremony. (broadwaynews.com) (deadline.com) (tonyawards.com)