Todd Haimes Theatre

The Todd Haimes Theatre is the Broadway flagship of Roundabout Theatre Company, a nonprofit founded in 1965 that also runs the Stephen Sondheim Theatre and Studio 54. Its 740 seats sit on two levels, an orchestra and one balcony. The building is public property, owned jointly by New York City and the state, which lease it to New 42nd Street; Roundabout has operated it since 2000. Most bookings are limited runs from Roundabout's subscription seasons: revivals, new plays and the occasional musical.

The name honors Todd Haimes, who ran Roundabout as artistic director and chief executive for nearly four decades and died in April 2023.

The producing brothers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn opened the house on October 2, 1918, with Information Please, a play by its star, Jane Cowl. The first hit was the musical Buddies a year later, and the 1920s brought George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's The Royal Family, Noël Coward's This Year of Grace and Cole Porter's Wake Up and Dream.

The Depression ended the good years: after a string of flops the Selwyn switched to films in 1934, and from 1937 the Brandt family ran it for five decades, mostly with continuous film programs.

In 1990 New York State took over the site, and the new nonprofit New 42nd Street set out to revive the block's old theaters. Roundabout signed on in 1997. That December 30, the six-story office block in front, which held the theater's 42nd Street entrance, came down in a rainstorm; city officials later blamed a contractor digging next door. The auditorium itself survived. American Airlines paid to put its name on the marquee, and the house reopened under that name on June 30, 2000, with Nathan Lane leading The Man Who Came to Dinner.

Roundabout productions since then include Twelve Angry Men (2004), The Pajama Game (2006), The 39 Steps (2008), Violet (2014) and 1776 (2022). The current name reached the marquee on January 31, 2024. A renovation that began in August 2025 restored the interior and put in new seats, and the doors opened again in March 2026.

The building is not a New York City landmark: in February 2016 the Landmarks Preservation Commission declined to designate it, since state preservation rules already applied.

George Keister, architect of the Belasco Theatre and Harlem's Apollo Theater, drew the Selwyn in an Italian Renaissance style. The auditorium's original brick, terracotta and stone wall still faces 43rd Street. The 42nd Street side is new: a ten-story tower by Platt Byard Dovell, known as the New 42nd Street Building, whose glass front hides behind rows of stainless steel sunshades fitted with color-changing lights designed by Anne Militello. It also holds rehearsal studios, offices and a 199-seat off-Broadway house, The Duke on 42nd Street.

The auditorium is fan-shaped. Arthur Brounet's murals of performers in classical costume decorate the walls above the boxes and over the proscenium arch. Covered with paint during the movie decades, they came back in the late 1990s, when EverGreene Architectural Arts restored them and rebuilt the lost panels on one side from old photographs. The boxes sit in arched openings along the side walls, and a blue dome with a chandelier crowns the ceiling. The 1997–2000 rebuild, designed by Robert Ascione and Karlsberger Architecture with restoration architect Francesca Russo, also added two floors above the auditorium; the fifth-floor Penthouse Lobby, with a deck over 43rd Street, serves drinks before the show.

Every level of the theater is accessible, and elevators reach both the front and the rear of the balcony. The orchestra has ten wheelchair locations and six transfer seats; the balcony has four wheelchair locations and two transfer seats. Accessible restrooms are on the lobby level, at the rear of the balcony and inside the Mustang Foundation Hub. Assistive listening comes as headsets, T-coil adapters or Bluetooth Auracast audio for compatible devices. Roundabout also runs a sign-interpreted series with Hands-On, and GalaPro captions and audio description usually start a few weeks after a show opens.