Circle in the Square Theatre

May still be running1 open on the record

These opened in the last three years and carry no closing date. That is the strongest claim the data supports — an unrecorded closing 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

Ranked among the 100 runs here that record 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

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 ofebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• 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…ebooks/Schulman, Susan L_/Backstage Pass to Broadway_ True Tales from a Theatre Press Agent - Susan L. Schulman.txt
• Circle in the Square Theatre 75 , 77 , 104 , 105 , 107 , 108 , 110 , 135 , 141 , 159 , 189ebooks/Schulman, Susan L_/Backstage Pass to Broadway_ True Tales from a Theatre Press Agent - Susan L. Schulman.txt
• 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…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
• 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…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt

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. No performance count on the record.
• Who built it.