Jesse Green: “All four of the musical performance Tonys went to black actors … Ten other actors of color were nominated, as were, even more unusually, a number of black and Hispanic and Filipino artists in the creative and technical categories. … As a result, all the attention to diversity on the show seemed natural and coherent, not inanely appliquéd as at February’s Academy Awards. … This was not just the least white Tonys I can recall but the most earnest. As one commenter on last night’s Vulture liveblog put it, ‘I am so moved by the lack of cynicism in this broadcast, this theatre season.'”