Tony Award

TONY AWARD. The Tony Awards , or, more properly, the Antoinette Perry Award s, are Broadway’s equivalent to the Oscars, Emmys, and Grammys. Like any such awards, the Tonys have their share of detractors, and these naysayers have a point: the system and its choices aren’t perfect. Despite the carping and the competition from many other annual theater awards, the Tonys are the most important of Broadway’s awards and have been since their inception in 1947. Dore ScharyDore Schary...