Roundabout Theatre Company

The Roundabout Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres.

Roundabout Theatre Company

Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center (2024)
Location	Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Type	Non-profit theatre company
Opened	1965
Website
roundabouttheatre.org

History

The company was founded in 1965 by Gene Feist, Michael Fried and Elizabeth Owens. Originally housed at a Chelsea, Manhattan, grocery store, on 26th Street, it moved to the nearby 23rd Street Theatre in 1972, performing there until their lease expired in 1984.^[1] Following that, Roundabout leased the theatre space at 44 Union Square until that lease expired in 1990.^[2] The company then moved into the Criterion Center in Times Square, a two-auditorium complex. Roundabout used the larger Stage Right space as a small Tony Award-eligible theater while the smaller second theater became the first version of the Laura Pels Theatre. Notable productions during Roundabout's tenure at the Criterion include the 1993 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie (featuring Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson in their Broadway debuts),^[3] the 1995 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company,^[4] and the 1997 revival of 1776. The company left the space in 1999 when their lease was canceled in favor of a new flagship Toys "R" Us store.

The company now operates three Broadway theatres – the Todd Haimes Theatre, Studio 54, and the Stephen Sondheim Theatre^[5] – and two off-Broadway spaces: the Laura Pels Theatre for new works by established playwrights, and the Roundabout Underground Black Box Theatre for new work of emerging writers and directors. The latter two theatres are located in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (the former American Place Theatre).^[6][7][8] Following the 2023 death of Todd Haimes, Roundabout's longtime artistic director,^[9] Christopher Ashley was hired as Roundabout's artistic director in September 2024.^[10][11] From January 2026, Rebecca Habel will serve as the managing director.^[12]

Production history

Criterion Center Stage Right

1991–1999:^[13]

• 1991: The Homecoming
• 1992: The Visit, Hamlet, The Price, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet and The Real Inspector Hound, The Show Off
• 1993: Anna Christie, Candida, She Loves Me, The White Liars and Black Comedy, Rodgers and Hammerstein's A Grand Night for Singing
• 1994: No Man's Land, Picnic, Hedda Gabler, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Glass Menagerie
• 1995: The Molerie Comedies—The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold, A Month in the Country, The Play's the Thing, Company
• 1996: The Father, The Night of the Iguana, A Thousand Clowns, Summer and Smoke, The Rehearsal
• 1997: Three Sisters, London Assurance, 1776, A View from the Bridge
• 1998: The Deep Blue Sea, Side Man
• 1999: Little Me, The Lion in Winter

Todd Haimes Theatre

Source: IBDB^[14]

This section is an excerpt from Todd Haimes Theatre § American Airlines Theatre and Todd Haimes Theatre.[edit]

Notable productions at the theater

Opening year	Name	Refs.
2000	The Man Who Came to Dinner	[15]
2000	Betrayal	[16]
2001	Design for Living	[17]
2001	Major Barbara	[18]
2001	The Women	[19]
2002	An Almost Holy Picture	[20]
2002	The Man Who Had All the Luck	[21]
2002	An Evening with Mario Cantone	[22][23]
2002	The Boys from Syracuse	[24]
2003	Tartuffe	[25]
2003	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg	[26]
2003	As Long As We Both Shall Laugh	[27][28]
2003	Big River	[29]
2003	The Caretaker	[30]
2004	Twentieth Century	[31]
2004	After the Fall	[32]
2004	Twelve Angry Men	[33]
2005	The Constant Wife	[34]
2005	A Naked Girl on the Appian Way	[35]
2006	The Pajama Game	[36]
2006	Heartbreak House	[37]
2007	Prelude to a Kiss	[38]
2007	Old Acquaintance	[39]
2007	Pygmalion	[40]
2008	The 39 Steps	[41]
2008	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	[42]
2008	A Man for All Seasons	[43]
2009	Hedda Gabler	[44]
2009	The Philanthropist	[45]
2009	After Miss Julie	[46]
2010	Present Laughter	[47]
2010	Everyday Rapture	[48]
2010	Mrs. Warren's Profession	[49]
2011	The Importance of Being Earnest	[50]
2011	Man and Boy	[51]
2012	The Road to Mecca	[52]
2012	Don't Dress for Dinner	[53]
2012	Cyrano de Bergerac	[54]
2013	Picnic	[55]
2013	The Big Knife	[56]
2013	The Winslow Boy	[57]
2014	Machinal	[58]
2014	Violet	[59]
2014	The Real Thing	[60]
2015	On the Twentieth Century	[61]
2015	Old Times	[62]
2016	Noises Off	[63]
2016	Long Day's Journey into Night	[64]
2016	The Cherry Orchard	[65]
2017	The Price	[66]
2017	Marvin's Room	[67]
2017	Time and the Conways	[68]
2018	John Lithgow: Stories by Heart	[69]
2018	Travesties	[70]
2018	Bernhardt/Hamlet	[71]
2019	True West	[72]
2019	All My Sons	[73]
2019	The Rose Tattoo	[74]
2020	A Soldier's Play	[75]
2021	Trouble in Mind	[76]
2022	Birthday Candles	[77]
2022	1776	[78]
2023	Fat Ham	[79]
2023	I Need That	[80]
2024	Doubt	[81]
2024	Home	[82]
2024	Yellow Face	[83][84]
2025	English	[85][84]
2025	Pirates! The Penzance Musical	[86][84]

Studio 54

Source: IBDB^[87]

This section is an excerpt from Studio 54 § Studio 54 (Roundabout).[edit]

Notable productions at the theater

Opening year	Name	Refs.
1998	Cabaret	[88][89]
2004	Assassins	[90][91]
2004	Pacific Overtures	[92][93]
2005	A Streetcar Named Desire	[94][95]
2005	A Touch of the Poet	[96][97]
2006	The Threepenny Opera	[98][99]
2006	The Apple Tree	[100][101]
2007	110 in the Shade	[102][103]
2007	The Ritz	[104][105]
2008	Sunday in the Park with George	[106][107]
2008	Pal Joey	[108][109]
2009	Waiting for Godot	[110][111]
2009	Wishful Drinking	[112][113]
2010	Sondheim on Sondheim	[114][115]
2010	Brief Encounter	[116][117]
2011	The People in the Picture	[118][119]
2012	Harvey	[120][121]
2012	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	[122][123]
2014	Cabaret	[124][125]
2015	An Act of God	[126][127]
2015	Thérèse Raquin	[128][129]
2016	She Loves Me	[130][131]
2016	Holiday Inn	[132][133]
2017	Sweat	[134][135]
2017	Latin History for Morons	[136][137]
2018	Children of a Lesser God	[138][139]
2018	The Lifespan of a Fact	[140][141]
2019	Kiss Me, Kate	[142][143]
2019	The Sound Inside	[144][145]
2021	Caroline, or Change	[146][147]
2022	The Minutes	[148][149]
2023	Pictures from Home	[150]
2024	Days of Wine and Roses	[151]
2024	A Wonderful World	[152]
2025	Call Me Izzy	[153]
2025	Oedipus	[154]
2026	The Rocky Horror Show	[154]

Laura Pels Theatre

• 2004: The Foreigner, Intimate Apparel
• 2005: Mr. Marmalade, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Pig Farm, The Paris Letter^[155]
• 2006: Suddenly Last Summer, Howard Katz, The Home Place
• 2007: The Overwhelming, Crimes of the Heart
• 2008: Streamers, Distracted, Tin Pan Ally Rag
• 2009: The Understudy
• 2010: The Language Archive
• 2011: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Death Takes a Holiday
• 2012: If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, Look Back in Anger
• 2013: Bad Jews, Talley's Folly
• 2014: Dinner with Friends, Just Jim Dale, Indian Ink
• 2015: Into the Woods, Significant Other, The Humans
• 2016: The Robber Bridegroom; Love, Love, Love
• 2017: Napoli, Brooklyn; If I Forget; The Last Match
• 2018: Amy and the Orphans; Skintight, Apologia
• 2019: Merrily We Roll Along, Toni Stone, Scotland, PA
• 2020: 72 Miles to Go...
• 2022: ...what the end will be, You Will Get Sick
• 2023: The Wanderers, Primary Trust, The Refuge Plays
• 2024: Jonah, The Counter
• 2025: Liberation

Gramercy Theatre

• 1999: Ashes to Ashes, Hurrah at Last
• 2000: Hotel Suite

Stephen Sondheim Theatre

^[156]

This section is an excerpt from Stephen Sondheim Theatre § Stephen Sondheim Theatre.[edit]

Notable productions at the theater

Opening year	Name	Refs.
2010	The Pee-wee Herman Show	[157][158]
2011	Anything Goes	[159][160]
2013	The Trip to Bountiful	[161][162]
2014	Beautiful: The Carole King Musical	[163][164]
2019	Slava's Snowshow	[165][166]
2021	Mrs. Doubtfire	[167][168]
2022	& Juliet	[169]

Awards

Drama Desk Awards

• 1993: Revival of a Play – Anna Christie
• 1994: Musical Revival – She Loves Me
• 1998: Revival of a Musical – Cabaret
• 1998: Revival of a Play – A View from the Bridge
• 2003: Revival of a Musical – Nine
• 2004: Revival of a Musical – Assassins
• 2005: Revival of a Play – Twelve Angry Men
• 2008: Unique Theatrical Experience – The 39 Steps
• 2011: Revival of a Musical – Anything Goes
• 2016: Revival of a Musical – She Loves Me
• 2016: Outstanding Play – The Humans

Laurence Olivier Awards

• 1995; Best Musical Revival – She Loves Me

Lucille Lortel Awards

Roundabout productions have received nine Lucille Lortel Awards. Derek McLane and Catherine Zuber won Outstanding Set and Costume Design Awards for 2004's Intimate Apparel. Reg Rogers won an Outstanding Actor award for 2002's The Dazzle. Kenneth Posner won an Outstanding Lighting Design Award for 2000's Give Me Your Answer, Do!. Robert Brill with Scott Pask, Jess Goldstein, and Kevin Adams won Awards for Outstanding Set, Costume, and Lighting Design for 1999's The Mineola Twins. 1998's All My Sons won an award for Outstanding Revival. 1996's Molly Sweeney won an award for Outstanding Play of the Season.

Theatre World Awards

Twenty-nine performers in Roundabout productions have won Theatre World Awards, which honors achievement in "breakout" performances. Winners are Christopher Goutman in 1979's The Promise, Boyd Gaines in 1981's A Month in the Country, Lisa Banes in 1981's Look Back in Anger, Anthony Heald in 1982's Misalliance, Kate Burton in 1983's Winners, Mark Capri in 1985's On Approval, Lindsay Crouse in 1992's The Homecoming, Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson in 1993's Anna Christie, Calista Flockhart and Kevin Kilner in 1995's The Glass Menagerie, Helen Mirren in 1995's A Month in the Country, Alfred Molina in 1996's Molly Sweeney, Helen Carey in 1997's London Assurance, Alan Cumming in 1998's Cabaret, Henry Czerny in 2000's Arms and the Man, Juliette Binoche in 2001's Betrayal, David Warner in 2002's Major Barbara, Victoria Hamilton in 2003's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Antonio Banderas and Mary Stuart Masterson for 2003's Nine, Alexander Gemignani in 2004's Assassins, Carla Gugino in 2005's After the Fall, Mamie Gummer in 2006's Mr. Marmalade, Nellie McKay in 2006's The Threepenny Opera, Harry Connick Jr. in 2006's The Pajama Game, Ben Daniels in 2008's Les Liaisons dangereuses, and Jenna Russell in 2008's Sunday in the Park with George.

Tony Awards

• 1993: Revival – Anna Christie
• 1998: Revival of a Musical – Cabaret
• 1998: Revival of a Play – A View from the Bridge
• 1999: New Play – Side Man
• 2003: Revival of a Musical – Nine
• 2004: Revival of a Musical – Assassins
• 2005: Revival of a Play – Glengarry Glen Ross
• 2006: Revival of a Musical – The Pajama Game
• 2011: Revival of a Musical – Anything Goes
• 2016: New Play – The Humans

Obie Awards

They have won eight Obie Awards. 2004's Intimate Apparel, 2003's All Over, 2002's The Dazzle, 1999's The Mineola Twins, and 1981's The Chalk Garden won Performance Awards for Viola Davis, Rosemary Harris, Peter Frechette and Reg Rogers, Swoosie Kurtz, and Irene Worth respectively. Emily Mann also won a Direction Obie Award for 2003's All Over. Most recently, Amy Ryan won in 2017 for her performance in Love, Love, Love.^[170]

Other awards

Roundabout has received 41 Outer Critics Circle Awards.