Location | Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States |
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Type | Non-profit theatre company |
Opened | 1965 |
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The Roundabout Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres.
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]
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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.
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 .
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. [167]
Roundabout has received 41 Outer Critics Circle Awards.
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