2023 Tony Awards: The best moments from the history-making, unscripted show

And the 76th Tony Awards, arguably Broadway’s biggest night, did indeed proceed Sunday — albeit unscripted — despite an ongoing writers’ strike that hung a question mark over the event for weeks. In addition to the award for best play, “Leopoldstadt” also collected trophies for direction of a play (Patrick Marber), featured actor (Brandon Uranowitz) and costumes (Brigitte Reiffenstuel). It was crowned best musical and also earned awards for best score (David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori), leading actress (Victoria Clark, earning the second Tony of her career) and featured actress (Bonnie Milligan). But despite winning the Olivier Award for best new play last year, the production wasn’t nominated for that same accolade on Broadway. J. Harrison Ghee made history with Alex Newell, who both became the first openly non-binary people to win Tony Awards for acting.