44th Tony Awards

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1989–1990 season before May 16, 1990 are eligible.

;Original plays

• Accomplice
• Artist Descending a Staircase
• The Cemetery Club
• A Few Good Men
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Lettice and Lovage
• Love Letters
• Mastergate
• Prelude to a Kiss
• The Piano Lesson
• The Secret Rapture
• Sid Caesar & Company
• Some Americans Abroad
• Tru
• Zoyka's Apartment ;Original musicals
• Aspects of Love
• A Change in the Heir
• City of Angels
• Dangerous Games
• Grand Hotel
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Oba Oba '90
• Prince of Central Park
• Truly Blessed ;Play revivals
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• The Circle
• The Merchant of Venice
• Miss Margarida's Way
• Orpheus Descending
• The Tenth Man ;Musical revivals
• Gypsy
• Shenandoah
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• The Threepenny Opera

The ceremony

The theme, "The Year of the Actor," featured classic monologues from As You Like It (Morgan Freeman); Hamlet (Kevin Kline); Long Day's Journey Into Night (Len Cariou); The Royal Family (Geraldine Fitzgerald); The Tempest (Philip Bosco).

Presenters and performers included Philip Bosco, Matthew Broderick, Len Cariou, Dixie Carter, Michael Crawford, Sandy Duncan, Morgan Freeman, Helen Hayes, Dustin Hoffman, James Earl Jones, Kevin Kline, Linda Lavin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Reeve, Joan Rivers, Ron Silver, Jessica Tandy, and Lily Tomlin.

Musicals and Plays represented:

• Aspects of Love ("Love Changes Everything" - Company)
• City of Angels ("What You Don't Know About Women" - Kay McClelland and Randy Graff / "You're Nothing Without Me" - Gregg Edelman and James Naughton)
• Grand Hotel ("We'll Take a Glass Together" - Michael Jeter, Brent Barrett and Company)
• Meet Me in St. Louis ("Banjos"/"The Boy Next Door"/"The Trolley Song"/"Meet Me in St. Louis"- Company)
• The Grapes of Wrath (Scene with Gary Sinise, Lois Smith and Company)
• Lettice and Lovage (Scene with Maggie Smith and Margaret Tyzack)
• The Piano Lesson (Scene with the company)
• Prelude to a Kiss (Scene with Timothy Hutton, Mary-Louise Parker, Barnard Hughes and Company)

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Special awards

The Regional Theatre Award was presented to the Seattle Repertory Theatre. The Tony Honor Award was presented to Alfred Drake for Excellence in the Theatre.

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

• 12 nominations: Grand Hotel
• 11 nominations: City of Angels
• 8 nominations: The Grapes of Wrath
• 6 nominations: Aspects of Love
• 5 nominations: Gypsy and The Piano Lesson
• 4 nominations: Lettice and Lovage, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Merchant of Venice and Sweeney Todd
• 3 nominations: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• 2 nominations: Prelude to a Kiss

The following productions received multiple awards.

• 6 wins: City of Angels
• 5 wins: Grand Hotel
• 2 wins: The Grapes of Wrath, Gypsy and Lettice and Lovage