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'Once' crowned best musical at the Tony Awards

The bittersweet romantic musical "Once" won best musical Sunday night at the Tony Awards. It beat out "Newsies," "Nice Work If You Can Get It" and "Leap of Faith."

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66th Tony Awards: And the Winner Is . . . Washington

Sunday night, we will finally get the answer to a tense theater season cliffhanger: Will the Kennedy Center win its first Tony Award in 15 years?

'Once,' 'Porgy and Bess' among top Tony Awards nominees

The Tony Awards spread the love around Tuesday morning, bestowing multiple top nominations on the musicals "Follies," "Once" and "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" as well as on the dramas "Other Desert Cities" and "Death of a Salesman."

3 Tony-winning shows deal with AIDS and war _ but ‘The Book of Mormon’ laughs to 9 wins

“The Book of Mormon” took home nine Tonys on Sunday — including the prize for best musical — propelled by a so-offensive-its-funny look at two naive missionaries who arrive in Uganda and find misery, gun-toting warlords, villages infected with HIV and people considering having sex with babies as a cure.

'The Book of Mormon' leads Tony Award nominations

"The Book of Mormon" nabbed a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning, earning the profane musical nods for best musical, best book of a musical, best original score, two leading actor spots and two featured actor nominations.

'Red,' a play about art, is big winner at Tonys

If you weren't watching the Tonys too carefully, you would have thought they had turned into the Oscars. Sunday's show was a night for celebrities and for the meaning of celebrity, when Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Catherine Zeta-Jones took home their first Tonys, and when the most honored play, "Red," was itself a meditation on art and commerce. Other familiar faces included Will Smith and Michael Douglas, Helen Mirren and Daniel Radcliffe, and "Glee" stars Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele.