Viola Davis and Russell Hornsby in the award-winning production of Intimate Apparel.
Although Roundabout had found a permanent mainstage home, it had not yet secured a home for the Laura Pels Theatre. A temporary solution was found in the Gramercy Theatre on 23rd Street, to which Roundabout moved the Laura Pels Theatre season between 1999 and 2002. Roundabout produced eleven plays at the Gramercy including works by Neil Simon, Harold Pinter, Sean O'Casey, Charles Randolph-Wright, Edward Albee, Martin McDonagh, and others.
In 2002, Roundabout's search for a permanent home for the Laura Pels Theatre came to an end with the signing of a long-term lease on the former American Place Theatre. The lead support of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust made possible a major renovation of the new theatre center, now known as the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. The marquee on the theatre center was first lit on February 26, 2004, and the new Laura Pels Theatre opened several weeks later with Lynn Nottage's award-winning play, Intimate Apparel.
