Roundabout Theatre Company (Scott Ellis, Interim Artistic Director; Sydney Beers, Executive Producer; Christopher Nave, Chief Advancement Officer) announced during a dedication ceremony that the 104-year-old Selwyn Theatre (227 West 42nd Street), previously known as the American Airlines Theatre, is now officially named the Todd Haimes Theatre. First announced in June 2023, the renaming is in recognition of the late artistic director and chief executive’s extraordinary dedication to the institution he called home, and his enormous contributions to Roundabout and the entire theatre community. Haimes passed away at 66 years of age on April 19, 2023 from complications of osteosarcoma.
The first production to take the stage at the newly renamed theater is the first Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Tony Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt: A Parable, directed by Scott Ellis, and starring Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber, with performances beginning Friday, February 2. Closing the 2023-2024 season at the Todd Haimes Theatre is Home by Samm-Art Williams, directed by Kenny Leon—and featured in Roundabout’s first Refocus Project in 2021, aimed to transform the American theatre canon—beginning performances Friday, May 17.
