The Roundabout Theatre Company is a leading
non-profit
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...
theatre company based in
Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan and serves as the city's primary central business district. Midtown is home to some of the city's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Buildin ...
, New York City, affiliated with the
League of Resident Theatres
The League of Resident Theatres (LORT) is the largest professional theater association of its kind in the United States, with 75 member theaters located in every major market in the U.S., including 29 states and the District of Columbia. LORT me ...
.
History
The company was founded in 1965 by
Gene Feist Gene Feist (January 16, 1923 – March 17, 2014, New York City) was an American playwright, theater director and co-founder of the Roundabout Theater Company. He authored 15 plays or adaptations, of which two were published by Samuel French Inc. ...
, Michael Fried and Elizabeth Owens. Originally housed at a
Chelsea, Manhattan
Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The area's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern b ...
, grocery store, on 26th Street, it moved to the nearby
23rd Street Theatre in 1972, performing there until their lease expired in 1984. The company now operates five theatres, all in
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
: the
American Airlines Theatre
The American Airlines Theatre, originally the Selwyn Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 227 West 42nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Built in 1918, it was designed by George Keister and developed by brothe ...
(for classic
Broadway plays and musicals);
Studio 54
Studio 54 is a Broadway theater and a former disco nightclub at 254 West 54th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Operated by the Roundabout Theatre Company, Studio 54 has 1,006 seats on two levels. The theater was ...
(for Broadway musicals and special events); the
Stephen Sondheim Theatre (originally Henry Miller's Theatre, which was rebuilt in 2009 and incorporated the theater's original facade); the Laura Pels Theatre (for new
off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer tha ...
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
The American Place Theatre was founded in 1963 by Wynn Handman, Sidney Lanier, and Michael Tolan at St. Clement's Church, 423 West 46th Street in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, and was incorporated as a not-for-profit theatre in that year. Tennesse ...
).
["A Short History of Roundabout"](_blank)
at RoundaboutTheatre.org. Retrieved 3 March 2010. The Center was developed, with financial support from the Steinbergs, "to support its artistic mission of fostering emerging talent in playwriting, performance, and stagecraft."
Previously, Roundabout also occupied
44 Union Square
44 Union Square, also known as 100 East 17th Street and the Tammany Hall Building, is a three-story building at 44 Union Square East in Union Square, Manhattan, in New York City. It is at the southeast corner of Union Square East/Park Avenue So ...
.
Production history
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1991–1999:
* 1991: ''
The Homecoming''
* 1992:
''The Visit'', ''
Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...
'',
''The Price'', ''The Fifteen Minute Hamlet and
The Real Inspector Hound
''The Real Inspector Hound'' is a short, one-act play by Tom Stoppard. The plot follows two theatre critics named Moon and Birdboot who are watching a ludicrous setup of a country house murder mystery, in the style of a whodunit. By chance, th ...
, The Show Off''
* 1993: ''
Anna Christie
''Anna Christie'' is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. According to historian Paul Avrich, the orig ...
'',
Candida,
She Loves Me
''She Loves Me'' is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
The musical is the third adaptation of the 1937 play '' Parfumerie'' by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, following the 1940 fil ...
,
White Liars and
Black Comedy
Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discus ...
,
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
A company, abbreviated as co., is a Legal personality, legal entity representing an association of people, whether Natural person, natural, Legal person, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common p ...
''
* 1996:
''The Father'', ''
The Night of the Iguana'', ''
A Thousand Clowns
''A Thousand Clowns'' is a 1965 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe and starring Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, and Barry Gordon. An adaptation of a 1962 play by Herb Gardner, it tells the story of an eccentric comedy ...
'', ''
Summer and Smoke'',
''The Rehearsal''
* 1997:
''Three Sisters'''',
London Assurance,
1776
Events January–February
* January 1 – American Revolutionary War – Burning of Norfolk: The town of Norfolk, Virginia is destroyed, by the combined actions of the British Royal Navy and occupying Patriot forces.
* January 1 ...
,'' ''
A View from the Bridge
''A View from the Bridge'' is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was first staged on September 29, 1955, as a one-act verse drama with ''A Memory of Two Mondays'' at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The run was unsuccessful, and M ...
''
* 1998:
''The Deep Blue Sea'', ''
Side Man
''Side Man'' is a memory play by Warren Leight. His inspiration was his father Donald, who worked as a sideman, in jazz parlance a musician for hire who can blend in with the band or star as a solo performer, according to what is required by the g ...
''
* 1999:
''Little Me'', ''
The Lion in Winter
''The Lion in Winter'' is a 1966 play by James Goldman, depicting the personal and political conflicts of Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, their children and their guests during Christmas 1183. It premiered on Broadway at the ...
''
American Airlines Theatre
* 2000: ''
The Man Who Came to Dinner'', ''
Betrayal'', ''
Design for Living
''Design for Living'' is a comedy play written by Noël Coward in 1932. It concerns a trio of artistic characters, Gilda, Otto and Leo, and their complicated three-way relationship. Originally written to star Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt and Cowa ...
''
* 2001: ''
Major Barbara'', ''
The Women'', ''
The Man Who Had All the Luck
''The Man Who Had All the Luck'' is a play by Arthur Miller, his second major play (after '' No Villain'').
''The Man Who Had All the Luck'' follows protagonist David Beeves’ existential exploration into the enigmatic question of how fate and t ...
''
* 2002: ''
The Boys from Syracuse'', ''
Tartuffe'', ''
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'', ''As Long as We Both Shall Laugh'', ''An Almost Holy Picture''
* 2003: ''
Big River'', ''
The Caretaker
''The Caretaker'' is a play in three acts by Harold Pinter. Although it was the sixth of his major works for stage and television, this psychological study of the confluence of power, allegiance, innocence, and corruption among two brothers an ...
'', ''
Twentieth Century''
* 2004: ''
After The Fall'', ''
Twelve Angry Men''
* 2005: ''
The Constant Wife'', ''
A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
''A Naked Girl on the Appian Way'' is a play by Richard Greenberg, initially produced by South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California in 2005.
Production history
It was commissioned by South Coast Repertory and premiered there from April 1, 200 ...
'', ''
The Pajama Game
''The Pajama Game'' is a musical based on the 1953 novel '' 7½ Cents'' by Richard Bissell.
The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. and dances were staged by Bob Fosse in his c ...
''
* 2006: ''
Heartbreak House
''Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes'' is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919 and first played at the Garrick Theatre in November 1920. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cul ...
'', ''
Prelude to a Kiss''
* 2007: ''
Old Acquaintance'', ''
Pygmalion
Pygmalion or Pigmalion may refer to:
Mythology
* Pygmalion (mythology), a sculptor who fell in love with his statue
Stage
* ''Pigmalion'' (opera), a 1745 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
* ''Pygmalion'' (Rousseau), a 1762 melodrama by Jean-Jacques ...
'', ''
The 39 Steps'', ''
Les Liaisons dangereuses
''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' (; English: ''Dangerous Liaisons'') is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782.
It is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and ...
''
* 2008: ''
A Man for All Seasons'', ''
Hedda Gabler''
* 2009: ''
The Philanthropist'', ''
After Miss Julie
''After Miss Julie'' is a 1995 play by Patrick Marber which relocates August Strindberg's naturalist tragedy, ''Miss Julie'' (1888), to an English country house in July 1945. The re-imagining of the events of Strindberg's original are transposed ...
''
* 2010: ''
Present Laughter
''Present Laughter'' is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1939 but not produced until 1942 because the Second World War began while it was in rehearsal, and the British theatres closed. The title is drawn from a song in Shakespeare's ''T ...
'', ''
Everyday Rapture
''Everyday Rapture'' is a musical with a book written by Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan and music by various composers. It ran Off-Broadway in 2009 and opened on Broadway in 2010. The musical is a loose autobiography of Scott herself, showing ...
'', ''
Mrs. Warren's Profession
''Mrs. Warren's Profession'' is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam (brothel proprietor), who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving d ...
''
* 2011: ''
The Importance of Being Earnest
''The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People'' is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious ...
'', ''
Man and Boy''
* 2012: ''
The Road to Mecca'', ''
Cyrano de Bergerac'', ''
Don't Dress for Dinner
''Don't Dress for Dinner'' is an adaptation of a two-act play titled ''Pyjama Pour Six'' by French playwright Marc Camoletti, who wrote '' Boeing-Boeing.'' It ran in London for six years and opened on Broadway in 2012.
Productions
After a succes ...
''
* 2013: ''
Picnic
A picnic is a meal taken outdoors ( ''al fresco'') as part of an excursion, especially in scenic surroundings, such as a park, lakeside, or other place affording an interesting view, or else in conjunction with a public event such as preceding ...
'', ''
The Big Knife'', ''
The Winslow Boy''
* 2014: ''
Machinal'', ''
Violet
Violet may refer to:
Common meanings
* Violet (color), a spectral color with wavelengths shorter than blue
* One of a list of plants known as violet, particularly:
** ''Viola'' (plant), a genus of flowering plants
Places United States
* Viol ...
'', ''
The Real Thing''
* 2015: ''
On the Twentieth Century,'' ''
Old Times
''Old Times'' is a play by the List of Nobel laureates in Literature, Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter. It was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre in London on 1 June 1971. It starred Colin Blakely, Dorothy Tutin ...
'' with
Clive Owen
Clive Owen (born 3 October 1964) is an English actor. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series '' Chancer'' from 1990 to 1991. He received critical acclaim for his work in the film '' Close ...
, ''
Noises Off''
* 2016: ''
Long Day's Journey into Night'' with
Jessica Lange, ''
The Cherry Orchard
''The Cherry Orchard'' (russian: Вишнёвый сад, translit=Vishnyovyi sad) is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by ''Znaniye'' (Book Two, 1904), and came out as a separate edition ...
'' with
Diane Lane
* 2017:
''Arthur Miller's'' ''
The Price,
Marvin's Room'', ''
Time and the Conways
''Time and the Conways'' is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne's Theory of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937. Wide ...
''
* 2018: ''
John Lithgow: Stories by Heart'', ''
Travesties'', ''
Bernhardt/Hamlet''
* 2019: ''
True West'', ''
All My Sons
''All My Sons'' is a three-act play written in 1946 by Arthur Miller. It opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, closed on November 8, 1949, and ran for 328 performances. It was directed by Elia Kazan (t ...
'', ''
The Rose Tattoo''
* 2020: ''
A Soldier's Play
''A Soldier's Play'' is a play by American playwright Charles Fuller. Set on a US Army installation in the segregation-era South, the play is a loose adaptation of Herman Melville's novella ''Billy Budd'', and follows the murder investigation of ...
''
* 2021: ''
Trouble in Mind''
* 2022: ''
Birthday Candles
A birthday is the anniversary of the birth of a person, or figuratively of an institution. Birthdays of people are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with birthday gifts, birthday cards, a birthday party, or a rite of passage.
Many rel ...
'', ''
1776
Events January–February
* January 1 – American Revolutionary War – Burning of Norfolk: The town of Norfolk, Virginia is destroyed, by the combined actions of the British Royal Navy and occupying Patriot forces.
* January 1 ...
''
Studio 54
* 1998: ''
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or d ...
''
* 2004: ''
Assassins
An assassin is a person who commits targeted murder.
Assassin may also refer to:
Origin of term
* Someone belonging to the medieval Persian Ismaili order of Assassins
Animals and insects
* Assassin bugs, a genus in the family ''Reduviida ...
''
* 2005: ''
Pacific Overtures'', ''
A Streetcar Named Desire
''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of person ...
''
* 2006: ''
A Touch of the Poet
''A Touch of the Poet'' is a play by Eugene O'Neill completed in 1942 but not performed until 1958, after his death.
It and its sequel, ''More Stately Mansions'', were intended to be part of a nine- play cycle entitled ''A Tale of Possessors Sel ...
'', ''
The Threepenny Opera
''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, ''The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François Villon, with music ...
''
* 2007: ''
The Apple Tree'', ''
110 in the Shade
''110 in the Shade'' is a musical with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Tom Jones, and music by Harvey Schmidt.
Based on Nash's 1954 play '' The Rainmaker'', it focuses on Lizzie Curry, a spinster living on a ranch in the American southwest ...
''
* 2008: ''
The Ritz'', ''
Sunday in the Park with George
''Sunday in the Park with George'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting ''A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatt ...
''
* 2009: ''
Pal Joey'', ''
Waiting for Godot'', ''
Wishful Drinking
''Wishful Drinking'' is an autobiographical humor book by American actress and author Carrie Fisher, published by Simon & Schuster in 2008. Fisher's book was based on her one-woman stage show, which she developed with writer/director Joshua R ...
''
* 2010: ''
Sondheim on Sondheim
''Sondheim on Sondheim'' is a musical revue consisting of music and lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim for his many shows. It is conceived and directed by James Lapine. The revue had a limited run on Broadway in 2010.
Background
The revue is b ...
'', ''
Brief Encounter''
* 2011: ''
The People in the Picture
''The People in the Picture'' is a musical with book and lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart and music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler. The musical is about a grandmother recalling her life in the Yiddish theater and the Holocaust.
Production
''The Peopl ...
''
* 2012: ''
Harvey
Harvey, Harveys or Harvey's may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Harvey'' (play), a 1944 play by Mary Chase about a man befriended by an invisible anthropomorphic rabbit
* Harvey Awards ("Harveys"), one of the most important awards ...
'', ''
The Mystery of Edwin Drood''
* 2014: ''Cabaret''; ''
An Act of God''
* 2015: ''
Thérèse Raquin'' with
Keira Knightley
* 2016: ''
She Loves Me
''She Loves Me'' is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
The musical is the third adaptation of the 1937 play '' Parfumerie'' by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, following the 1940 fil ...
,
Holiday Inn''
* 2017: ''Sweat'', ''Latin History for Morons''
* 2018: ''
Children of a Lesser God'', ''The Lifespan of a Fact''
* 2019: ''
Kiss Me, Kate''
* 2021: ''
Caroline, or Change
''Caroline, or Change'' is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics and book by Tony Kushner. The score combines spirituals, blues, Motown, classical music, and Jewish klezmer and folk music.
The show ran both Off-Broadway and on Broad ...
''
* 2022: ''
The Minutes
''The Minutes'' are a three-piece rock band from Dublin, Ireland consisting of Mark Austin, Tom Cosgrave & Shane Kinsella. Début album '' Marcata'' was released on 20 May 2011 in Ireland.
History (2006 - present)
The Minutes were formed in 2 ...
''
Laura Pels Theatre
* 2004: ''
The Foreigner''
* 2005: ''
Mr. Marmalade'', ''
Entertaining Mr Sloane'', ''Pig Farm'', ''The Paris Letter''
* 2006: ''
Suddenly Last Summer
''Suddenly Last Summer'' is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, written in New York in 1957. It opened off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with another of Williams' one-acts, ''Something Unspoken'' (written in London in ...
'', ''Howard Katz'', ''
The Home Place
''The Home Place'' is a play written by Brian Friel that first premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin on 1 February 2005.
After a sold-out season at the Gate, it transferred to the Comedy Theatre (now Harold Pinter Theatre), in London's West E ...
''
* 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
''Death Takes a Holiday'' is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing. It is based on the 1924 Italian play ''La morte in vacanza'' by Alberto Casella (1891–1957), as adapted in English ...
''
* 2012: ''
If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet
''If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet'' is the first full-length professionally produced play by the British playwright Nick Payne. It was produced at the Bush Theatre in London in 2009.
Productions London
The play opened in London in 2009 at th ...
'', ''
Look Back in Anger''
* 2013: ''
Bad Jews'', ''
Talley's Folly''
* 2014: ''
Dinner with Friends
''Dinner with Friends'' is a play written by Donald Margulies. It premiered at the 1998 Humana Festival of New American Plays and opened Off-Broadway in 1999. The play received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Plot
Gabe and Karen, a happily ma ...
'', ''
Just Jim Dale'', ''
Indian Ink''
* 2015: ''
Into the Woods
''Into the Woods'' is a 1987 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine.
The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story ...
'', ''
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
''Amy and the Orphans'' is a 2018 play by Lindsey Ferrentino. The play officially opened Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre on March 1, 2018.
The play is about three adult siblings, one with Down syndrome, re-uniting ...
''; ''
Skintight'', ''Apologia''
* 2019: ''
Merrily We Roll Along'', ''Toni Stone'', ''
Scotland, PA''
Gramercy Theatre
* 1999:
''Ashes to Ashes'', ''Hurrah at Last''
* 2000: ''Hotel Suite''
Stephen Sondheim Theatre
*2009: ''
Bye Bye Birdie''
*2010: ''
All About Me'', ''
The Pee-wee Herman Show''
*2011: ''
Anything Goes''
*2013: ''
The Trip to Bountiful''
*2014: ''
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical'
*2019: ''
Slava's Snowshow
''Slava's Snowshow'' is a stage show created and staged by Russian performance artist Slava Polunin. The show won the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event.
Produc ...
''
*2021: ''
Mrs. Doubtfire''
Awards
Drama Desk Awards
* 1993: Revival of a Play – ''
Anna Christie
''Anna Christie'' is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. According to historian Paul Avrich, the orig ...
''
* 1994: Musical Revival – ''
She Loves Me
''She Loves Me'' is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
The musical is the third adaptation of the 1937 play '' Parfumerie'' by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, following the 1940 fil ...
''
* 1998: Revival of a Musical – ''
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or d ...
''
* 1998: Revival of a Play – ''
A View from the Bridge
''A View from the Bridge'' is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was first staged on September 29, 1955, as a one-act verse drama with ''A Memory of Two Mondays'' at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The run was unsuccessful, and M ...
''
* 2003: Revival of a Musical – ''
Nine''
* 2004: Revival of a Musical – ''
Assassins
An assassin is a person who commits targeted murder.
Assassin may also refer to:
Origin of term
* Someone belonging to the medieval Persian Ismaili order of Assassins
Animals and insects
* Assassin bugs, a genus in the family ''Reduviida ...
''
* 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
''She Loves Me'' is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
The musical is the third adaptation of the 1937 play '' Parfumerie'' by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, following the 1940 fil ...
''
* 2016: Outstanding Play –
''The Humans''
Laurence Olivier Awards
* 1995; Best Musical Revival – ''
She Loves Me
''She Loves Me'' is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
The musical is the third adaptation of the 1937 play '' Parfumerie'' by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, following the 1940 fil ...
''
Lucille Lortel Awards
Roundabout productions have received 9
Lucille Lortel Awards
The Lucille Lortel Awards recognize excellence in New York Off-Broadway theatre. The Awards are named for Lucille Lortel, an actress and theater producer, and have been awarded since 1986. They are produced by the League of Off-Broadway Theatre ...
. Derek McLane and Catherine Zuber won Outstanding Set and Costume Design Awards for 2004's ''
Intimate Apparel
Undergarments, underclothing, or underwear are items of clothing worn beneath outer clothes, usually in direct contact with the skin, although they may comprise more than a single layer. They serve to keep outer garments from being soiled o ...
''.
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
''All My Sons'' is a three-act play written in 1946 by Arthur Miller. It opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, closed on November 8, 1949, and ran for 328 performances. It was directed by Elia Kazan (t ...
'' won an award for Outstanding Revival. 1996's ''
Molly Sweeney
''Molly Sweeney'' is a two-act play by Brian Friel. It tells the story of its title character, Molly, a woman blind since infancy, who undergoes an operation to try to restore her sight. Like Friel's '' Faith Healer'', the play tells Molly's sto ...
'' won an award for Outstanding Play of the Season.
Theatre World Awards
29 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
Boyd Payne Gaines (born May 11, 1953) is an American actor. During his career, he has won four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards. Gaines is best known for playing Mark Royer on '' One Day at a Time'' (1981-1984).
Early life and education
H ...
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
Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, Richardson was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaugh ...
and
Liam Neeson
William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Tony Awards. In 2020, he was placed 7th on ''The I ...
in 1993's ''
Anna Christie
''Anna Christie'' is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. According to historian Paul Avrich, the orig ...
'',
Calista Flockhart
Calista Kay Flockhart (born November 11, 1964) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for portraying the title character on the Fox television series '' Ally McBeal'' (1997–2002), for which she received a Golden Globe Award in 1998 ...
and
Kevin Kilner in 1995's ''
The Glass Menagerie'',
Helen Mirren
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in 1995's ''A Month in the Country'',
Alfred Molina in 1996's ''Molly Sweeney'', Helen Carey in 1997's ''
London Assurance'',
Alan Cumming
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in 1998's ''
Cabaret
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'',
Henry Czerny in 2000's ''
Arms and the Man
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''Arma virumque cano'' ("Of arms and the man I sing").
The play was first produced on 21 April 1894 at the Aven ...
'',
Juliette Binoche
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She has appeared in more than sixty feature films and has been the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Silver Bear, ...
in 2001's ''
Betrayal'',
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Oth ...
in 2002's ''
Major Barbara'',
Victoria Hamilton
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After training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Hamilton began her career in classical theatre, appearing in productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the ...
in 2003's ''
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'',
Antonio Banderas
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and
Mary Stuart Masterson for 2003's ''
Nine'',
Alexander Gemignani
Alexander Cesare Gemignani (born July 3, 1979) is a Broadway actor, tenor, musician, and conductor.
Gemignani was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey and graduated from Tenafly High School in 1997. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Mus ...
in 2004's ''
Assassins
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Origin of term
* Someone belonging to the medieval Persian Ismaili order of Assassins
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* Assassin bugs, a genus in the family ''Reduviida ...
'',
Carla Gugino
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in 2005's ''
After the Fall'',
Mamie Gummer in 2006's ''
Mr. Marmalade'',
Nellie McKay in 2006's ''
The Threepenny Opera
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'',
Harry Connick Jr.
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in 2006's ''
The Pajama Game
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'',
Ben Daniels
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in 2008's ''
Les Liaisons dangereuses
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It is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and ...
'', and
Jenna Russell in 2008's ''
Sunday in the Park with George
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''.
Tony Awards
* 1993: Revival – ''
Anna Christie
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''
* 1998: Revival of a Musical – ''
Cabaret
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''
* 1998: Revival of a Play – ''
A View from the Bridge
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''
* 1999: New Play – ''
Side Man
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''
* 2003: Revival of a Musical – ''
Nine''
* 2004: Revival of a Musical – ''
Assassins
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Assassin may also refer to:
Origin of term
* Someone belonging to the medieval Persian Ismaili order of Assassins
Animals and insects
* Assassin bugs, a genus in the family ''Reduviida ...
''
* 2005: Revival of a Play – ''
Glengarry Glen Ross
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''
* 2006: Revival of a Musical – ''
The Pajama Game
''The Pajama Game'' is a musical based on the 1953 novel '' 7½ Cents'' by Richard Bissell.
The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. and dances were staged by Bob Fosse in his c ...
''
* 2011: Revival of a Musical – ''
Anything Goes''
* 2016: New Play –
''The Humans''
Obie Awards
They have won 8
Obie Award
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s. 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''.
[Obie Awards]
2017 Winners
Other awards
Roundabout has received 41
Outer Critics Circle Award
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s.
References
External links
Roundabout Theatre Company official website"A Roundabout Way to Broadway" 50th anniversary film, presented by
Neil Patrick Harris
* (sole venue, 1972–1984)
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Gene Feist papers, 1930s–2000.Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library
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