Kevin Spacey will step up to host Broadway’s Tony Awards, organizers said on Tuesday, less than two months before the national broadcast of the annual theater honors.
It will mark Spacey’s first time hosting the Tonys, which will take place in New York on June 11, broadcaster CBS said.The 71st Tony Awards will be broadcast live on CBS in a glittering three-hour show from Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan.
Spacey, 57, is a Tony winner for “Lost in Yonkers” as well as a two-time Oscar winner, currently stars in the Netflix political drama “House of Cards.” He also served for 10 years as artistic director of London’s Old Vic theater company.
“We can’t wait to see the energy he brings to Radio City on Tony night,” said Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, and Heather Hitchens, president of the American Theatre Wing, in a reference Spacey’s wry, sometimes sardonic humor.




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