About Roundabout

Since its humble off-Broadway beginnings in 1965, Roundabout has grown to become the nation’s largest not-for-profit theatre company. 400 subscribers have increased to more than 35,000, and we’ve gone from a 150-seat theatre in a supermarket basement to operating five of New York’s finest Broadway and off-Broadway houses, including New York's first LEED Gold theatre. 

 

Over the years, Roundabout has been recognized with 29 Tonys®, 39 Drama Desks, 49 Outer Critics Circle, 9 Obie and 5 Olivier Awards, and has attracted such well-known actors as Kelli O'Hara, Stockard Channing, Jim Dale, Alan Cumming, Liam Neeson, Frank Langella, Christopher Plummer and Nathan Lane, and directors the likes of Scott Ellis, Doug Hughes and Kathleen Marshall.

 

The innovative Theatre-PLUS™ program, designed to enhance the theatergoing experience with special subscriber events, was launched in 1991, and would later be adopted by arts organizations around the country and internationally.

 

Roundabout’s groundbreaking education efforts include long-term, multiple classroom partnerships with individual New York City schools and with the NYC Department of Education. The company developed two new small high schools, including Bronx Theatre High School and the Brooklyn School for Music and Theatre, using theatre across the curriculum.

 

In addition to the more than 600,000 audience members that visit our theatres every year, Roundabout reaches millions more through the high-definition screenings of its productions, touching the lives of theatregoers, students, educators and artists across the country and around the world.

 

To learn more about the history of Roundabout and our theatres, click here.