NEW YORK >> “Maybe Happy Ending,” a rom-com about androids that crackles with humanity, had a definite happy ending at Sunday’s Tony Awards. It won best new musical on a night when Kara Young made history as the first Black person to win two Tonys consecutively for “Purpose,” which also won best new play.

Starring Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen, “Maybe Happy Ending” charts the relationship between two decommissioned robots, becoming a commentary on human themes and the passage of time. It won a leading six Tonys.

With “Purpose,” a drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family exposing hypocrisy and pressures during a snowed-in gathering, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins caps a remarkable year: In addition to winning back-to-back Tonys — his “Appropriate” won best play revival last year — he earned the Pulitzer Prize for “Purpose.” (That win came the day of the Met Gala, where he served on the host committee.)

Jacobs-Jenkins is the first Black playwright to win the category since August Wilson for “Fences” in 1987. He urged viewers to support regional theaters; “Purpose” was nurtured in Chicago.

“Theater is a sacred space that we have to honor and treasure, and it makes us united,” Young said in her own acceptance speech.