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Circle in the Square Theatre

Circle in the Square Theatre

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Broadway Open 1972–2025 on this page101 productions

The Circle in the Square Theatre (colloquially the Circle) is a Broadway theater at 235 West 50th Street, within the basement of Paramount Plaza, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. The current Broadway theater, completed in 1972, is the successor of an off-Broadway theater of the same name, co-founded around 1950 by a group that included Theodore Mann and José Quintero. The Broadway venue was designed by Allen Sayles; it originally contained 650 seats and uses a thrust stage that extends into the audience on three sides. The theater had 776 seats as of 2026. The Circle in the Square Theatre was named for its first location at 5 Sheridan Square in Greenwich…

May still be running1 with no closing date

2025 Just in Time Opened April 23, 2025

These opened in the last three years and carry no closing date. That is the strongest claim the data supports: a closing we don't know about looks exactly like a run still going, and the file was last checked in August 2026. A run that closed last week is still sitting in this list.

By decade101 productions across 6 decades

  1. 1970s 28
  2. 1980s 30
  3. 1990s 20
  4. 2000s 5
  5. 2010s 11
  6. 2020s 7

Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.

Longest runs hereby performances

2015 Fun Home Opening date unknown · Sam Gold 582 perf.
2017 Once on This Island December 3, 2017 · Michael Arden 458 perf.
2000 The Rocky Horror Show November 15, 2000 · Christopher Ashley 437 perf.
2002 Metamorphoses March 4, 2002 400 perf.
2019 Oklahoma! April 7, 2019 · Daniel Fish 391 perf.
1987 Coastal Disturbances March 4, 1987 · Carole Rothman 350 perf.
1979 Loose Ends June 6, 1979 · Alan Schneider 284 perf.
2011 Godspell November 7, 2011 · Daniel Goldstein 264 perf.

Ranked among the 100 runs here that carry a performance count. 1 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here101 productions

1972 Mourning Becomes Electra November 15, 1972 · Revival 55 perf.
1973 Here Are Ladies March 29, 1973 · Original 40 perf.
1973 Medea January 17, 1973 · Revival 79 perf.
1973 The Iceman Cometh December 13, 1973 · Revival 85 perf.
1973 The Waltz of the Toreadors September 13, 1973 · Revival 85 perf.
1973 Uncle Vanya June 4, 1973 · Revival 64 perf.
1974 An American Millionaire April 20, 1974 · Original 20 perf.
1974 Scapino May 18, 1974 · Original 121 perf.
1974 Where’s Charley? December 20, 1974 · Revival 76 perf.
1975 Ah, Wilderness! September 18, 1975 · Revival 85 perf.
1975 All God's Chillun Got Wings March 20, 1975 · Revival 53 perf.
1975 Death of a Salesman June 26, 1975 · Revival 71 perf.
1975 The Glass Menagerie December 18, 1975 · Revival 77 perf.
1976 Days in the Trees September 26, 1976 · Revival 69 perf.
1976 Geraldine Fitzgerald in Songs of the Street March 7, 1976 · Original 2 perf.
1976 Pal Joey June 27, 1976 · Revival 73 perf.
1976 The Lady from the Sea March 18, 1976 · Revival 77 perf.
1976 The Night of the Iguana December 16, 1976 · Revival 77 perf.
1977 Romeo and Juliet March 17, 1977 · Revival 77 perf.
1977 Saint Joan December 15, 1977 · Revival 77 perf.
1977 Tartuffe September 25, 1977 · Revival 65 perf.
1977 The Importance of Being Earnest June 16, 1977 · Revival 85 perf.
1978 13 Rue de l'Amour March 16, 1978 · Original 77 perf.
1978 Man and Superman December 14, 1978 · Revival 77 perf.
1978 Once in a Lifetime June 15, 1978 · Revival 85 perf.
1978 The Inspector General September 21, 1978 · Revival 69 perf.
1979 Loose Ends June 6, 1979 · Revival 284 perf.
1979 Spokesong March 15, 1979 · Original 77 perf.
1980 John Gabriel Borkman December 18, 1980 · Revival 61 perf.
1980 Major Barbara February 26, 1980 · Revival 40 perf.
1980 Past Tense April 24, 1980 · Original 45 perf.
1980 The Bacchae October 2, 1980 · Original 61 perf.
1980 The Man Who Came to Dinner June 26, 1980 · Revival 85 perf.
1981 Candida October 15, 1981 · Revival 91 perf.
1981 Scenes and Revelations June 25, 1981 · Original 29 perf.
1981 The Father April 2, 1981 · Revival 29 perf.
1982 Eminent Domain March 28, 1982 · Original 57 perf.
1982 Macbeth January 28, 1982 · Revival 21 perf.
1982 Present Laughter July 15, 1982 · Revival 179 perf.
1983 Heartbreak House December 7, 1983 · Revival 65 perf.
1983 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial May 5, 1983 · Revival 216 perf.
1983 The Misanthrope January 27, 1983 · Revival 69 perf.
1984 Awake and Sing! March 8, 1984 · Revival 61 perf.
1984 Design For Living June 20, 1984 · Revival 245 perf.
1985 Arms and the Man May 30, 1985 · Revival 109 perf.
1985 The Loves of Anatol March 6, 1985 · Original 46 perf.
1985 The Marriage of Figaro October 10, 1985 · Revival 77 perf.
1985 The Robert Klein Show! December 20, 1985 · Original 16 perf.
1986 The Boys in Autumn April 30, 1986 · Original 70 perf.
1986 The Caretaker January 30, 1986 · Revival 45 perf.
1986 You Never Can Tell October 9, 1986 · Revival 125 perf.
1987 Coastal Disturbances March 4, 1987 · Original 350 perf.
1988 A Streetcar Named Desire March 10, 1988 · Revival 84 perf.
1988 An Evening with Robert Klein June 19, 1988 · Original 3 perf.
1988 The Devil's Disciple November 13, 1988 · Revival 113 perf.
1988 The Night of the Iguana June 26, 1988 · Revival 81 perf.
1989 Ghetto April 30, 1989 · Original 33 perf.
1989 Sweeney Todd September 14, 1989 · Revival 188 perf.
1990 The Miser October 11, 1990 · Revival 93 perf.
1990 Zoya's Apartment May 10, 1990 · Original 45 perf.
1991 Getting Married June 26, 1991 · Revival 70 perf.
1991 On Borrowed Time October 9, 1991 · Revival 101 perf.
1991 Taking Steps February 20, 1991 · Original 78 perf.
1992 Anna Karenina August 26, 1992 · Revival 46 perf.
1992 Chinese Coffee June 24, 1992 · Original 11 perf.
1992 Salome June 28, 1992 · Revival 19 perf.
1992 Search and Destroy February 26, 1992 · Original 46 perf.
1993 Wilder, Wilder, Wilder April 21, 1993 · Original 30 perf.
1994 The Shadow Box November 20, 1994 · Revival 49 perf.
1995 Garden District October 10, 1995 · Original 31 perf.
1995 Holiday December 3, 1995 · Revival 50 perf.
1995 The Rose Tattoo April 30, 1995 · Revival 73 perf.
1995 Uncle Vanya February 23, 1995 · Revival 29 perf.
1996 Bus Stop February 22, 1996 · Revival 29 perf.
1996 Hughie August 22, 1996 · Revival 56 perf.
1996 Tartuffe May 30, 1996 · Revival 29 perf.
1997 Stanley February 20, 1997 · Original 77 perf.
1999 Not About Nightingales February 25, 1999 · Original 125 perf.
2000 The Rocky Horror Show November 15, 2000 · Revival 437 perf.
2000 True West March 2, 2000 · Original 154 perf.
2002 Metamorphoses March 4, 2002 · Original 400 perf.
2004 Frozen May 4, 2004 · Original 128 perf.
2008 Glory Days May 6, 2008 · Original 1 perf.
2010 Lombardi October 21, 2010 · Original 244 perf.
2010 The Miracle Worker March 3, 2010 · Revival 28 perf.
2011 Godspell November 7, 2011 · Revival 264 perf.
2013 Soul Doctor August 15, 2013 · Original 66 perf.
2014 Bronx Bombers February 6, 2014 · Original 29 perf.
2014 Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill April 13, 2014 · Original 173 perf.
2014 The River November 16, 2014 · Original 97 perf.
2015 Fun Home Opening date unknown · Original 582 perf.
2016 In Transit December 11, 2016 · Original 145 perf.
2017 Once on This Island December 3, 2017 · Revival 458 perf.
2019 Oklahoma! April 7, 2019 · Revival 391 perf.
2021 Chicken & Biscuits October 10, 2021 · Original 41 perf.
2022 American Buffalo April 14, 2022 · Revival 101 perf.
2022 KPOP November 27, 2022 · Original 17 perf.
2023 Melissa Etheridge: My Window September 28, 2023 · Original 38 perf.
2024 An Enemy of the People March 18, 2024 · Revival 112 perf.
2024 Romeo + Juliet October 24, 2024 · Original 133 perf.
2025 Just in Time April 23, 2025 · Original

In the literature8 passages

  • In the 1989–1990 season, Walton was playing Anthony Hope, the sailor in the revival of Sweeney Todd at Circle in the Square Theatre. At the same time, Victor Garber, the original Anthony, was at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., playing Franklin Shepard, in a revival ofB007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia
  • In 1976, The Circle in the Square Theatre presented Ibsen’s THE LADY FROM THE SEA, starring the distinguished and controversial English actress Vanessa Redgrave as Ellida opposite Pat Hingle, under the direction of Redgrave’s former husband, Tony Richardson. Redgrave, then a highly-vocal Communist, had recently caused a furor when she mad…Backstage Pass to Broadway_ True Tales from a Theatre Press Agent - Susan L. Schulman
  • Circle in the Square Theatre 75 , 77 , 104 , 105 , 107 , 108 , 110 , 135 , 141 , 159 , 189Backstage Pass to Broadway_ True Tales from a Theatre Press Agent - Susan L. Schulman
  • For three years, I worked for Broadway producer Ken Davenport. Working on the 2011 revival of Godspell , I got to spend a lot of time at the Circle in the Square Theatre. That was a very different kind of Broadway house. Spending time at Circle, putting on theatre in the round in a very incredible modern space made me think about the uniq…Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 1, The - Jennifer Tepper
  • Here are the stories of the Palace Theatre, the Barrymore Theatre, the Gershwin Theatre, the Circle in the Square Theatre, the Shubert Theatre, the Criterion Center Stage Right, the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, and the Nederlander Theatre, eight Broadway theaters that light up New York City. This is the second volume of a multi-volume work th…Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper

What this page does not know

  • What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it: concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
  • How long 1 of these run lasted. We don't have a performance count.
  • Who built it.

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