{"id":191165,"date":"2026-04-09T18:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191165\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:21:07","slug":"singer-pink-to-host-79th-annual-tony-awards-at-nycs-iconic-radio-city-music-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191165\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Pink to host 79th Annual Tony Awards at NYC&#8217;s iconic Radio City Music Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop star Pink will host the 79th Annual Tony Awards which will crown the best in Broadway for the 2025-26 season, Tony Award Productions  announced Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 3-time Grammy Award-winner will lead the 2026 Tonys live on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the honor of an entire lifetime to host a night celebrating the literal hardest working people in showbiz,&#8221; Pink said in a statement. &#8220;Broadway has shaped my life and how I put my own shows together &#8211; it is a community that is supportive, and inclusive, and full of talent and love. These people give magic every single day, and I cannot wait to celebrate them with the entire world.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She also posted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW6xrEDCcNL\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a video<\/a>\u00a0confirming the news on Instagram.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ap21138484440126.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Pink \" height=\"422\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Pink performs &#8220;Wild Hearts Can&#8217;t Be Broken&#8221; at the 60th annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 28, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>                Matt Sayles\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n<p>2026 Tonys executive producers Raj Kapoor, Sarah Levine Hall and Jack Sussman described her as &#8220;a fearless artist whose powerhouse voice, electrifying stage presence, and undeniable authenticity embody the very spirit of live performance and theater.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her Grammys, she has won a Daytime Emmy, seven MTV Video Music Awards and has had 15 Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Two of her songs are featured in current Broadway productions of &#8220;Moulin Rouge! The Musical&#8221; and &#8220;&amp; Juliet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Tony Awards air live at 8 p.m. ET on June 7 on CBS and Paramount+.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, &#8220;Wicked&#8221; star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cynthia-erivo-elphaba-wicked-sequel-tony-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cynthia Erivo<\/a>\u00a0hosted the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tony-awards-winners-2025-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the 78th Tony Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop star Pink will host the 79th Annual Tony Awards which will crown the best in Broadway for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,14151,30427],"class_list":{"0":"post-191165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news","13":"tag-pink","14":"tag-tony-awards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}