Education @ Roundabout: Setting the StageDecember 26, 2010Roundabout's school partner, Bronx Theatre High School, a school which Roundabout co-founded in 2003, has started a new Theatre Business/Production Management class to support the 11th grade productions at their school. In 11th grade the students collaborate on a full-scale production in their black box theatre; this year's production being Dracula.
Education @ RoundaboutDecember 23, 2010Roundabout has been involved in educational outreach since its earliest years. Gene Feist, Roundabout's founding director, was a high school teacher in New Rochelle, spending his days teaching drama and his nights directing plays and running a fledgling theatre company. Mr. Feist understood the value of promoting theatre in public schools. Our not-for-profit status was linked to our education programming and the educational work we have engaged in over the last twenty plus years.
Message from the Artistic Director: The Importance of Being Earnest December 16, 2010It's hard to believe that this production will mark Roundabout's first time bringing you the work of the great Oscar Wilde. Wilde is one of the best-known literary figures of the late Victorian period, yet many people don't realize how few theatrical works he left behind. In fact, the very social hypocrisies that he satirizes in Earnest contributed to the shortening of this famous wit's career.
Brian Bedford and RoundaboutDecember 15, 2010This week From the Archives celebrates Brian Bedford, currently starring as Lady Bracknell in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
From the Archive: The Magical Marketing of ‘Cabaret’December 8, 2010Outstanding graphics and images used in print and television campaigns are essential to effective promotion of Broadway productions. This week From The Archives takes a look at promotional materials from one of Roundabout's most memorable productions: Cabaret.
Through the Years IIDecember 3, 2010As promised last week, today's From The Archives features promotional materials from the early 1980s.
Through the YearsNovember 24, 2010Have you wondered what Roundabout's logo looked like in the late 1980s? Or how much season tickets cost? Or what our print ads looked like twenty years ago? Over the next few weeks From the Archives will answer these questions. We will showcase promotional materials from our collection - subscriber letters, brochures, promotional posters and ads, and photographs.
Star Spotlight: Adam DriverNovember 23, 2010Adam Driver can be seen in Mrs. Warren's Profession, now playing its final week at the American Airlines Theatre.
Staff Spotlight: Ellen HoltNovember 15, 2010Q: Give us a brief background of your career leading up to Roundabout.
A: My first real theater job was working for David Merrick on the original 42nd Street. We not only had the NYC show, but did 2 national tours and a London production. I then worked in company management for a couple of general managers, and after a few years made a 180 degree turn and went to work in the NY Yankees' ticket office, ending up as the Group and Season Sales Manager there (NB: I'm a Mets fan!). I returned to the arts at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark and then found a wonderful home here at Roundabout.
From the Archives: A Look at the Costume Designs of Michael KrassNovember 10, 2010This week's From The Archives features original materials by costumer Michael Krass.
Mr. Krass (an Off-Broadway and Broadway costume designer who also heads the Design Program for the Playwrights Horizons Studio at New York University) has worked with Roundabout on 14 productions, beginning in 1991 with The Subject Was Roses, by Frank D. Gilroy. Roundabout's archives contain a significant amount of source materials such as these.