Tributes on Twitter came from such theater royalty as Chenoweth, Jason Alexander and Audra McDonald. Roundabout had a long, successful history with “Cabaret,” reviving it in 1998 with the Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall-directed version starring Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson and then reviving it again with Cumming and Sienna Miller in 2014.ĭuring Haimes’s tenure, Roundabout shows won 34 Tony Awards, 58 Drama Desk Awards, 73 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 21 Lucille Lortel Awards and 14 Obie Awards. Other triumphs include ”The Humans," the 2011 revival of “Anything Goes” with Sutton Foster and “Nine” with Jane Krakowski. You will be missed on Broadway, the theater world, and the world at large.”īroadway shows under Haimes' 39-year tenure include “The Real Thing” with Ewan McGregor, “A Soldier's Play" with David Alan Grier and “On the Twentieth Century” with Kristin Chenoweth. Thank you for the chance to work at the Roundabout with you. Haimes,” actor Mark Ruffalo, who starred in a Roundabout revival of “The Price” on Broadway in 2017, wrote on Twitter. Haimes, the artistic director and CEO of the nonprofit Roundabout, died in New York City on Wednesday due to complications from cancer, according to Matt Polk, his longtime friend and spokesperson. NEW YORK - Todd Haimes, who led the Roundabout Theatre Company from an off-off-Broadway company teetering on the edge of bankruptcy into a major theatrical force with works on five stages - including three Broadway theaters - and dozens of Tony Awards, has died.
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