Todd Haimes Dies: Artistic Director Of Broadway’s Pioneering Roundabout Theatre Company Was 66
deadline.comTodd Haimes, who built New York’s Roundabout Theater Company into one of the city’s – and country’s- leading nonprofit theaters, died today at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital of complications from osteosarcoma, a bone cancer.
He was 66. His death was announced by Roundabout spokesman Matt Polk. Haimes was first diagnosed with sarcoma of the jaw in 2002.
As the artistic director and CEO of Roundabout, Haimes oversaw one of the most prolific and successful of all Broadway and Off Broadway theater companies, responsible for such acclaimed productions as The Man Who Came To Dinner, starring Nathan Lane (2000), Big River (2004), The Pajama Game (2006), On the 20th Century (2015), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2016), and A Soldier’s Play (2020), among many others.
Under his leadership, the Roundabout has won 34 Tony Awards, 58 Drama Desk Awards, 73 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 21 Lucille Lortel Awards, and 14 Obie Awards.
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