Roundabout Theatre Company has set its official opening night dates for the five previously announced shows in its 2024–25 Broadway and Off-Broadway season.
David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face will open the season October 1 at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Daniel Dae Kim is set to star in the Broadway premiere of the farce, inspired by real events when Hwang mistakenly cast a white actor in the Asian lead of one of his plays. Leigh Silverman will direct.
Meghan Kennedy's The Counter will run concurrently in Roundabout's Off-Broadway venue, the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center. Opening night will be October 9. David Cromer directs the work about an unlikely friendship between a waitress and a diner regular.
The Broadway premiere of English will open in the new year, January 23, 2025. Playwright Sanaz Toossi won the Pultizer Prize for the comedy about Iranian adults practice for an English-language proficiency exam. Knud Adams will direct.
The spring Off-Broadway show, Liberation by Bess Wohl, will open February 20 at the Laura Pels. Whitney White will direct the new memory play about a six women and the dissolution of their group.
Finally, the revival of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance will open at the Todd Haimes Theatre April 24. Scott Ellis, Roundabout's interim artistic director, will direct the musical, which is set to star David Hyde Pierce and Ramin Karimloo.
Tickets for the subscription series will go on sale in May, followed by individual ticket sales at a later date. Visit RoundaboutTheatre.org for more.