NEW YORK — The nominations for the 2025 Tony Awards, including three for “Yellow Face,” were announced on May 1.
The awards show, hosted by Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”), will be held at Radio City Music Hall on June 8 at 8 p.m. ET and will air on CBS and Paramount+.
David Henry Hwang’s “Yellow Face” was nominated for Best Revival of a Play along with “Eureka Day,” “Romeo + Juliet,” and “Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.”
Francis Jue was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play along with Glenn Davis for “Purpose,” Gabriel Ebert for “John Proctor Is the Villain,” Bob Odenkirk for “Glengarry Glenn Ross,” and Conrad Ricamora for “Oh, Mary!”
Daniel Dae Kim was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play along with George Clooney for “Good Night and Good Luck,” Cole Escola for “Oh, Mary!,” Jon Michael Hill for “Purpose,” Henry Lennix for “Purpose,” and Louis McCartney for “Stranger Things: The First Shadow.”
In Hwang’s semiautobiographical play, DHH (Kim), an Asian American playwright, protests yellowface casting in the blockbuster musical “Miss Saigon,” only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. The repercussions resonate in this farce about the complexities of race. Jue plays DHH’s father, HYH.