Laura Benanti and Tituss Burgess will host the Tony Awards preshow ceremony on June 7. 

The two will lead The Tony Awards: Act One special, which features a presentation of the first round of Tony Awards to members of the show’s creative teams and more. The special will be free on Pluto TV and will air from 6:35-8:00 p.m. ET / 3:35-5:00 p.m. PT.

This leads into the main telecast, hosted by Pink, which will broadcast live coast-to-coast at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on the CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Both shows will take place at Radio City Music Hall. 

Benanti is a Tony Award winner, for her role in the 2008 revival of Gypsy, and four-time nominee for her roles in She Loves Me, Into the Woods, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Swing! She is a series regular on Paramount+ series  Mayor of Kingstown and co-starred in the feature film, No Hard Feelings with Jennifer Lawrence and Matthew Broderick, among other projects.  

Burgess is best known for his role as Titus Andromedon in Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and has also appeared on screen in Schmigadoon! and Set It Up. On Broadway, Burgess starred as Mary Todd Lincon in Oh, Mary! in 2025 and has previously appeared in Moulin Rouge!, Jersey Boys, Guys and Dolls and The Little Mermaid. He will next be seen on screen in Warner Bros. The Cat in the Hat, in theaters in November.

The Tony Awards are produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League. Raj Kapoor, Sarah Levine Hall and Jack Sussman are Executive Producers of this year’s show. 

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