Roundabout Theatre Company has announced a slate of productions and initial casting for the nonprofit’s 2024-2025 season. The lineup includes three Broadway shows at the Todd Haimes Theatre and two Off-Broadway mountings at the Laura Pels.
Launching the Broadway season, in September 2024, will be the Broadway premiere of David Henry Hwang’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist play “Yellow Face.” Daniel Dae Kim will star as “DHH” in the production, to be directed by Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverman. Hwang’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in “Miss Saigon,” only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play.
In December 2024, the Main Stem transfer of Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama “English.” Knud Adams, who helmed the play in a 2022 mounting from Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company in collaboration with Roundabout, will repeat his work on Broadway. The comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners are practicing for their proficiency exam.
A spring Broadway revival of the comic operetta “The Pirates of Penzance.” The production will mark a creative reunion between director Scott Ellis, librettist Rupert Holmes and actor David Hyde Pierce, who in 2007 collaborated on the Broadway musical “Curtains.”
Roundabout’s Off-Broadway season will feature a pair of world-premiere plays: Meghan Kennedy’s “The Counter” (September 2024), directed by Tony winner David Cromer, and Tony nominee Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” (January 2025), to be directed by Whitney White. www.roundabouttheatre.org