It was a marquee weekend for live performance and prestige cinema alike, as Broadway’s biggest night shared the spotlight with the close of the world’s most famous film festival.

Pink takes Radio City

The 79th Annual Tony Awards lit up New York’s Radio City Music Hall, with Grammy winner Pink stepping in as host. The ceremony drew a glittering crowd — Usher, Queen Latifah, Danielle Brooks, Amber Ruffin, Jeremy Pope, Deborah Cox, Lena Waithe and stylist Law Roach among them — and leaned into nostalgia with performances marking the anniversaries of ‘The Book of Mormon,’ ‘Chicago’ and ‘A Chorus Line.’

A celebration of theater’s staying power

Beyond the trophies, the night doubled as a reminder of Broadway’s resilience. Honoring long-running shows that have become cultural institutions, the Tonys made the case that live theater — expensive, fragile and gloriously analog — still commands the industry’s biggest names and a national television audience.

Cannes crowns its winner

Across the Atlantic, the Cannes Film Festival wrapped with its top prize. The Palme d’Or went to Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord,’ the Romanian director’s second Palme after ‘4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’ in 2007 — and the seventh consecutive Palme for distributor Neon, an extraordinary run for the indie label. French actress Eye Haidara hosted the closing ceremony.

A legend honored

Cannes also bestowed an Honorary Palme d’Or on Barbra Streisand. Unable to attend in person, the screen and music icon sent a video message thanking presenter Isabelle Huppert and the festival — a graceful coda to a weekend steeped in celebrating both new work and enduring legacies.

The bottom line

From Pink’s turn on the Tonys stage to Mungiu’s second Palme and Streisand’s honorary tribute, the weekend underscored a healthy appetite for serious, celebratory culture. Whether on a Broadway stage or a Cannes screen, the message was the same: live, ambitious art still draws a crowd — and the industry’s biggest stars to honor it.

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