Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Tony Awards On CBS Will Again Be Hosted by Ariana DeBose After Last Year’s Success

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The Tony Awards are back on CBS on June 16th.

This year’s host will the same as last year’s — Ariana DeBose, an Oscar winner and Tony nominee.

De Bose was a big hit last year hosting the show from the ghastly United Palace Theater in Washington Heights. This year the show will come from what we call the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center (it’s formally known as the David Koch Theater, but let’s not go there).

De Bose will also open the show with a spectacular number she’s choreographed.

There should be lots of stars as presenters and plenty of cool winners. This is a hot Broadway season. Last night I saw the revival of “Tommy,” which should give “Merrily We Roll Along” some competition for Revival of a Musical. Jeremy Strong is already in the lead for Best Actor in a Play. So hold on!

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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