The 74th Annual Tony Awards, originally scheduled for June 7 at Radio City Music Hall, will be postponed and scheduled for a later date, to be announced “once Broadway opens again,” according to award officials. The move will also require a shift in eligibility dates for upcoming productions. The previous cut-off date for Tony eligibility was April 23, the date that new shows had to open by to be eligible for awards consideration. Tony Awards nominations were scheduled to be announced on April 28.
Although, the Broadway League doesn’t have a timeline for future Broadway theater openings and show production, nonprofit producers have rescheduled three new Broadway productions—Flying Over Sunset, Birthday Candles and Caroline, or Change—to the fall. Shows that will not reopen at all thus far are Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Hangmen.
Additionally, the Outer Critics Circle Awards have been postponed, with a new schedule for the 70th annual awards to be announced at a later time. The Outer Critics Circle Awards honor Broadway, Off- and Off-Off-Broadway shows. Nominations had been slated to be announced on April 20, with winners revealed on May 11 and a gala dinner for winners on May 21. The Outer Critics Circle is an association of members affiliated with more than 90 newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, Internet and theater publications in the United States and abroad.
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