Tony Awards Set for June 15

The official eligibility cut-off for the awards will be Wednesday, May 7. Nominees for the awards are chosen by a committee of theater professionals, including Joe Benincasa, president of The Actor’s Fund of America, playwrights Lynn Nottage and Jonathan Reynolds, actors Joanna Gleason, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Phyllis Newman, and Roger Rees, choreographer Donald Saddler, and Tom Viola, president of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.