The Tony Awards committee has announced that actor, writer and four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein will receive the 2025 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.

Harvey Fierstein is the winner of four Tony Awards: two for Torch Song Trilogy (Best Play and Best Actor in a Play), and Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical for La Cage Aux Folles, and Best Actor in a Musical for Hairspray.

He has also written the Tony-winning hit Kinky Boots, which is now touring the UK and Ireland, along with Newsies, Casa Valentina, A Catered Affair, Safe Sex, Bella Bella!, Legs Diamond, Spookhouse, Flatbush Tosca, Common Ground and more.

Fierstein also revised the book for Funny Girl, which played in the West End starring Sheridan Smith, and on Broadway.

Heather Hitchens, President & CEO of the American Theatre Wing and Jason Laks, President of the Broadway League said in a statement: “Harvey Fierstein’s contributions to the American theatre, both as an artist and activist, represent an extraordinary legacy. We are thrilled to honor him with this year’s Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Award and can’t wait to celebrate one of our icons at the Tony Awards on June 8th.”

The 78th annual Tony Awards will be announced on 8 June 2025, at Radio City Music Hall in New York, hosted by Cynthia Erivo.

Nominations for this year’s awards are out next Thursday, 1 May 2025.

It was announced last week by the Tony Awards committee that Operation Mincemeat, which is now playing at the Golden Theatre in New York starring the original West End cast, David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Jak Malone and Zoë Roberts, is eligible for this year’s awards.

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Main photo: Harvey Fierstein (Photo by Guzman)

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