Roundabout Theatre Company 2016 – 2017
Holiday Inn
The New Irving Berlin Musical
Previews Sept 01, 2016
Opening Night Oct 06, 2016
Jim leaves the bright lights of show business behind to settle down on his farmhouse in Connecticut… but life just isn’t the same without a bit of song and dance. Jim’s luck takes a spectacular turn when he meets Linda, a spirited schoolteacher with talent to spare. Together they turn the farmhouse into a fabulous inn with dazzling performances to celebrate each holiday, from Thanksgiving to the Fourth of July. But when Jim’s best friend Ted tries to lure Linda away to be his new dance partner in Hollywood, will Jim be able to salvage his latest chance at love?
Roundabout proudly presents the Broadway premiere of Holiday Inn, the dazzling new musical inspired by the Academy Award®-winning film. With music and lyrics by the legendary Irving Berlin, direction by Gordon Greenberg and a book by Greenberg and Chad Hodge, this heart warming classic with a contemporary sparkle will have you falling in love one beloved tune at a time.
This joyous musical features thrilling dance numbers, laugh-out-loud comedy and a parade of hit Irving Berlin songs, including “Blue Skies,” “Easter Parade,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “Shakin’ the Blues Away” and more. Whether you adored the film or are experiencing Holiday Inn for the first time, this year-round romance is sure to delight.
The Cherry Orchard
Previews Sept 15, 2016
Opening Night Oct 16, 2016
Roundabout Theatre Company presents a new production of The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece about a family on the edge of ruin—and a country on the brink of revolution. Simon Godwin (Associate Director at the National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Two Gentlemen of Verona) directs a fresh new adaptation by Pulitzer Prize finalist Stephen Karam (The Humans, Sons of the Prophet).
Academy Award® nominee Diane Lane (Trumbo) is Lyubov Ranevskaya, who returns with her family to their fabled orchard to forestall its foreclosure. The play captures a people—and a world—in transition, and presents us with a picture of humanity in all its glorious folly. By turns tragic and funny, The Cherry Orchard still stands as one of the great plays of the modern era. First produced in Moscow in 1904, Roundabout’s new adaptation promises to breathe fresh life into this towering tale.
Love, Love, Love
Previews Sept 15, 2016
Opening Night Oct 16, 2016
London, 1967. Beatlemania is in full effect, the “Me” generation is in its prime and Kenneth and Sandra have the world at their fingertips. It’s the summer of love, and that’s all they need. But what will happen when the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll fade away and these boomers have babies of their own?
A New York premiere from the theatrical voice that dazzled Broadway with King Charles III, Love, Love, Love is the “riveting and exhilarating” (The Guardian) dark comedy from Olivier Award winner Mike Bartlett. Tony Award® winner Michael Mayer (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) directs this provocative play spanning more than four decades that lays bare the consequences of growing older without growing up.
If I Forget
Previews Feb 16, 2017
Closing Apr 16, 2017
From Steven Levenson, acclaimed writer of Roundabout’s The Language of Trees and The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, comes If I Forget, a sharply funny, unflinchingly honest new play about the stories we choose to believe, the compromises we can’t avoid and the hurt only our nearest and dearest can inflict.
In the final months before 9/11, liberal Jewish studies professor Michael Fischer has reunited with his two sisters to celebrate their father’s 75th birthday. Each deeply invested in their own version of family history, the siblings clash over everything from Michael’s controversial scholarly work to the mounting pressures of caring for an ailing parent. As destructive secrets and long-held resentments bubble to the surface, the three negotiate—with biting humour and razor-sharp insight—how much of the past they’re willing to sacrifice for a chance at a new beginning. If I Forget tells a powerful tale of a family and a culture at odds with itself.
Arthur Miller’s
The Price
Previews Feb 16, 2017
Opening Night Mar 16, 2017
When the Great Depression cost his family their fortune, Victor Franz gave up his dream of an education to support his father. Three decades later, Victor has returned to his childhood home to sell the remainder of his parents’ estate. His wife, his estranged brother, and the wily furniture dealer hired to appraise their possessions all arrive with their own agendas, forcing Victor to confront a question, long-stifled, about the value of his sacrifice.
One of the most personal plays by the consummate voice of the American everyman, Arthur Miller’s The Price is a riveting story about the struggle to make peace with the past and create hope for the future. Steppenwolf co-founder Terry Kinney (reasons to be pretty) directs.
Napoli, Brooklyn
Previews Feb 16, 2017
Opening Night Mar 16, 2017
The Muscolinos have raised three proud and passionate daughters. But as the girls come of age in a rapidly changing world, their paths diverge—in drastic and devastating ways—from their parents’ deeply traditional values. Despite their fierce love, each young woman harbors a secret longing that, if revealed, could tear the family apart. When a plane crashes into their neighborhood and life comes to a screeching halt, the Muscolino sisters are forced to confront their conflicting desires in this gripping, provocative portrait of love in all its danger and beauty.
Roundabout presents the world premiere of Napoli, Brooklyn, the latest work from Meghan Kennedy (Roundabout Underground’s Too Much, Too Much, Too Many). Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein (The Road to Mecca) directs this fiery and poignant new play about an Italian immigrant household in 1960s Brooklyn.
