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Roundabout Theatre Company Officially Renames Broadway Venue To Honor Late Artistic Director Todd Haimes
The Roundabout Theatre Company tonight renamed its Broadway venue – a 104-year-old building that began as the Selwyn and most recently went by the prosaic American Airlines Theatre – to…
The name change was announced last June, and becomes official just in time to welcome its first tenant: The revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt: A Parable, directed by Scott Ellis and starring Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber, begins previews this Friday ahead of a February 29 opening night. In addition to various education programs and career training initiatives, the venue has been home to Tony Award-winning and -nominated productions of Big River(2003), The Pajama Game(2006), On the Twentieth Centur y (2015), Long Day’s Journey Into Night(2016), A Soldier’s Play(2020) and Trouble in Mind(2021). Following the limited run of Doubt – closing night is April 14 – the Haimes will house the new Samm-Art Williams play Home, directed by Kenny Leon, with previews beginning May 17 ahead of a June 5 opening.
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