CAA Hosts Annual New York Party Ahead of Tony Awards

Just two days before the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) took over the West Chelsea hotspot Crane Club for their annual New York fête. With 42 Tony nominations across their clients—including actors, directors, designers, and writers—there was no shortage of cause for celebration.

The evening wasn’t limited to Broadway. CAA clients from across the entertainment spectrum joined the agency’s New York team, including Joe Machota, Head of the Theatre Department, for a night that felt equal parts industry reunion and full-blown party.

Guests were welcomed with cocktails in the front lounge before moving into the main dining room, where DJ Daisy O’Dell set the tone and waiters circulated with sliders, skewers, citrus salad, and gnocchetti. Andrew Scott worked the room; Danya Taymor pulled her John Proctor Is the Villain collaborator Kimberly Belflower onto the dance floor; and familiar faces like Jon Hamm, Ego Nwodim, Adrienne Warren, Prabal Gurung, and Jeremy O. Harris made their way in.

Miley Cyrus—draped in glowing gold Schiaparelli—made a late entrance and had her own reasons to celebrate. “I’m feeling totally in bliss right now,” she said of her latest album, Something Beautiful, which she described as inherently theatrical. Before darting to the dance floor (after briefly hijacking the photographer’s camera), she didn’t hesitate when asked her favorite musical: “Cats,” she declared with a grin.