The British have taken over Broadway. New York has been hosting the Tony awards, the stage equivalent to the Oscars.
Billy Elliot The Musical, about a miner's son from northern England who dreams of dancing, won 10 awards including best musical.
Three young actors who share the title role received a unique best actor prize. It was the first time three actors have shared the award.
Director Stephen Daldry also won a Tony.
The show is based on a 2000 film which starred Jamie Bell. Daldry also directed the film.
The musical opened in London in 2005. A Sydney production followed in 2007.
Alice Ripley was named best actress in a musical for her role as a bipolar suburban housewife in Next to Normal.
Hair, a new production of the groundbreaking 1960s musical, won the Tony for best revival of a musical.
God of Carnage received awards for best play, director and best actress. The cast included James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels.
British actor Angela Lansbury, 83, was awarded her 5th Tony. She tied the record for the most Tony Awards won by an actress set by Julie Harris.
Lansbury is best known for her long-running role in TV series Murder, She Wrote.
Her movie roles include Oscar-nominated performances in Gaslight, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Manchurian Candidate. She was also in National Velvet with Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney.
Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, 57, received the best actor award for his performance as a dying monarch in Exit the King, a play adapted from Eugene Ionesco's original work.
Rush has now won the "Holy Trinity" of his profession: Oscar, Emmy and Tony awards. Other such winners are Al Pacino, Anne Bancroft and Ingrid Bergman.