The Roundabout Theatre Company is the largest non-profit theatre company based in New York City. The Company owns Studio 54 and the American Airlines Theatre, both Broadway theatres, and the Off-Broadway Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Arts.

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.

The Roundabout was founded in 1965 by Gene Feist and Elizabeth Owens. 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.

Production history

American Airlines Theatre

• 2000: The Man Who Came to Dinner, Betrayal, Design for Living
• 2001: Major Barbara, The Women, An Almost Holy Picture, The Man Who Had All the Luck
• 2002: The Boys from Syracuse, Tartuffe, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, As Long as We Both Shall Laugh
• 2003: Big River, The Caretaker, Twentieth Century
• 2004: After The Fall, Twelve Angry Men
• 2005: The Constant Wife, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, The Pajama Game
• 2006: Heartbreak House, Prelude to a Kiss
• 2007: Old Acquaintance, Pygmalion, The 39 Steps, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
• 2008: A Man for All Seasons, Hedda Gabler Studio 54
• 2003: Assassins
• 2004: Pacific Overtures, A Streetcar Named Desire
• 2005: A Touch of the Poet, The Threepenny Opera
• 2006: The Apple Tree, 110 in the Shade
• 2007: The Ritz, Sunday in the Park with George
• 2008: Pal Joey, Dancin' Laura Pels Theatre
• 2004: The Foreigner
• 2005: Mr. Marmalade, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Pig Farm
• 2006: Suddenly Last Summer, Howard Katz, The Home Place
• 2007: The Overwhelming, Crimes of the Heart
• 2008: Streamers, Distracted

Awards

Drama Desk Awards

• 1993: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play – Anna Christie
• 1994: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revival – She Loves Me
• 1998: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical – Cabaret
• 1998: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play – A View From the Bridge
• 2003: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical – Nine
• 2004: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical – Assassins
• 2005: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play – Twelve Angry Men
• 2008: Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience – The 39 Steps

Laurence Olivier Awards

• 1995; Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival – She Loves Me

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.

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.

Tony Awards

• 1993: Tony Award for Best Revival – Anna Christie
• 1998: Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical – Cabaret
• 1998: Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play – A View From the Bridge
• 1999: Tony Award for Best Play – Side Man
• 2003: Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical – Nine
• 2004: Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical – Assassins
• 2005: Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play – Glengarry Glen Ross
• 2006: Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical – The Pajama Game

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.

Other awards

Roundabout has received 41 Outer Critics Circle Awards

References

External links

• Roundabout Theatre Company official website