Daniel Dae Kim, left, will star in the play “Yellow Face,” while Ramin Karimloo, center, and David Hyde Pierce, right, will lead a revival of the musical “The Pirates of Penzance” on Broadway next season.Credit...From left: Isabel Infantes/Reuters; Cindy Ord/Getty Images For SiriusXM; Mike Coppola/Getty Images
Roundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit on Broadway, said it would produce the three shows next season.
Roundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit operating on Broadway, is planning to stage a jazz-inflected production of “The Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s famed 19th-century comic operetta, in the spring of 2025, the organization said Tuesday.
Next season it also plans to stage the first Broadway productions of two plays: “English,” Sanaz Toossi’s work about a group of Iranians trying to learn English, which won last year’s Pulitzer Prize in drama, and “Yellow Face,” David Henry Hwang’s semi-autobiographical play sparked by the controversy over the castingof a white performer as a Eurasian character in the original production of “Miss Saigon.”
All three shows will be staged at the Todd Haimes Theater, which is currently called the American Airlines but is about to be renamedfor the Roundabout chief executive and artistic director who died last year after four decades with the organization.