Tony awards live: Winners, highlights, best looks and everything you missed at the 2019 ceremony
The IndependentBryan Cranston accepts the best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play for network onstage during the 2019 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on 9 June, 2019 in New York City. Read our privacy policy Hadestown triumphed during the 2019 Tony Awards, picking up the title of best musical among a long list of wins. Bryan Cranston beat Adam Driver when he won the Tony Award for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play, for his performance in Network. “Demagoguery is the enemy of the people.” The cheers for women also got a boost when The Ferryman playwright Jez Butterworth, who earlier asked the crowd to give his partner, actress Laura Donnelly, a round of applause for giving birth to their two children in two years while working on the ensemble drama, handed the best play trophy to Donnelly.