Roundabout Theatre Company
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The Roundabout Theatre Company is the largest non-profit theatre company based in New York City. It owns two Broadway theatres (Studio 54 and the American Airlines Theatre) and one Off-Broadway theatre (the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Arts).
Most recently, it produced Broadway revivals of The Threepenny Opera, The Pajama Game and The Apple Tree. It won a Tony for its 1998 reinterpretation of Cabaret.
A subsidiary of the Roundabout, the Roundabout Underground, is dedicated to the works of emerging playwrights (most recently Steven Karam's Speech and Debate). Its performances are held in the Black Box Theatre, located in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center For Arts.
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[edit] History
The Roundabout was founded in 1965 by Gene Feist and Elizabeth Owens.[1] The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which includes the Laura Pels Theatre, is located on West 46th Street in Manhattan. The Center was developed, with financial support from the Steinbergs, "to support its artistic mission of fostering emerging talent in playwriting, performance, and stagecraft."[2]
[edit] Current Season (2008-2009)
Studio 54:
American Airlines Theatre:
Laura Pels Theatre:
- Streamers
- Distracted
[edit] Past Seasons
2007-2008
- At the American Airlines: Old Acquaintance, Pygmalion, The 39 Steps, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- At Studio 54: The Ritz, Sunday in the Park with George
- At the Laura Pels Theatre:
2006-2007
- At the American Airlines: Heartbreak House, Prelude to a Kiss
- At Studio 54: The Apple Tree, 110 in the Shade
- At the Laura Pels Theatre: Suddenly Last Summer, Howard Katz, The Home Place
2005-2006
- At the American Airlines: The Constant Wife, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, The Pajama Game
- At Studio 54: A Touch of the Poet, The Threepenny Opera
- At the Laura Pels Theatre: Mr. Marmalade, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Pig Farm
2004-2005
- At the American Airlines: After The Fall, Twelve Angry Men
- At Studio 54: Pacific Overtures, A Streetcar Named Desire
- At the Laura Pels Theatre: The Foreigner
2003-2004
- At the American Airlines: Big River, The Caretaker, Twentieth Century
- At Studio 54: Assassins
2002-2003
- At the American Airlines: The Boys from Syracuse, Tartuffe, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, As Long as We Both Shall Laugh
2001-2002
- At the American Airlines: Major Barbara, The Women, An Almost Holy Picture, The Man Who Had All the Luck
2000-2001
- At the American Airlines: The Man Who Came to Dinner, Betrayal, Design for Living
[edit] Awards
[edit] Olivier Awards
The Roundabout Theatre Company has won 5 Olivier Awards, all for their 1995 production of She Loves Me. The awards won were: Best Musical Revival]], Best Musical Director, Best Actress in a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, and Best Supporting Actress in a Musical.
[edit] Village Voice Obie Awards
They have won 7 Village Voice 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.
[edit] Lucille Lortel Awards
They have won 9 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.
[edit] 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 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 Hmailton 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 Liasons Dangereuses, and Jenna Russell in 2008's Sunday in the Park with George.
[edit] Other Awards
Roundabout has received 41 Outer Critics Circle Awards and 34 Drama Desk Awards.
[edit] Tony Awards
Roundabout Theatre Company has won 22 Tony Awards, the highest honor for a Broadway Production.
- 1985
- A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
- Best Revival
- Best Actress, Stockard Channing
- 1993
- Anna Christie
- Best Revival
- 1994
- She Loves Me
- Best Actor in a Play, Boyd Gaines
- 1998
- A View from the Bridge
- Best Revival of a Play
- Best Leading Actor in a Play, Anthony LaPaglia
Cabaret
- Best Revival of a Musical
- Best Leading Actor in a Musical, Alan Cumming
- Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Natasha Richardson
- Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Ron Rifkin
- 1999
- Side Man
- Best Play
- Best Featured Actor in a Play, Frank Wood
Little Me
- Best Leading Actor in a Musical, Martin Short
- 2003
- Nine
- Best Revival of a Musical
- Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Jane Krakowski
- 2004
- Assassins
- Best Revival of a Musical
- Best Direction of a Musical, Joe Mantello
- Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Michael Cerveris
- Best Lighting Design, Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer
- Best Orchestrations, Michael Starobin
- 2006
- The Pajama Game
- Best Revival of a Musical
- Best Choreography, Kathleen Marshall
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