Roundabout Theater Company Launches MYROUNDABOUT.org 1/7

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is continuing to enhance the experience of Roundabout's subscribers with the launch of MYROUNDABOUT.org on January 7, 2009.

MYROUNDABOUT.org is an interactive cultural home that allows subscribers to connect with Roundabout artists and staff, explore Roundabout's rich 43-year history and learn more about the many benefits of Roundabout's subscription and patron programs.

MYROUNDABOUT.org is part of a larger audience engagement campaign that reaffirms Roundabout's commitment to superior customer service for their patrons by providing feedback opportunities, current information regarding updates and improvements to subscription benefits, unparalleled access to "insider" information related to current and future productions, and special areas designed to help subscribers plan their visit. The website also features the Roundabout Blog, a multimedia archive, a link to Roundabout's digital magazine Front & Center, a monthly prize drawing and exclusive interviews with members of the Roundabout family.

Todd Haimes (Artistic Director) says: "We devote an enormous amount of time thinking about how we can make the entire theatre-going experience as enjoyable, flexible and comfortable as possible for our subscribers. MYRoundabout.org is convenient way for our subscribers to learn more about the institution, get a glimpse behind the scenes and feel part of our extended family."

MYROUNDABOUT.org is the newest addition to Roundabout's innovative cultural programs that enhance the theatergoing experience beyond the work on stage.

Theater-PLUS: Created over a decade ago, these specialized subscription series include, the Gay and Lesbian Series, the Teacher's Night Series, the Social Series, the Lecture Series, the Celebrity Series, the Early Curtain Series, the Wine Series and the Sign-Interpreted Series.

ACCESS Roundabout: Each season this audience development program offers over 22,000 dramatically discounted tickets to a new generation of theatergoers. The program includes:

- $10 first preview

- HIPTIX - Offering $20 tickets to every Roundabout performance to young professionals ages 18-35.

- Roundabout Underground - an artistic initiative to showcase new plays and emerging artists in a new 62-seat black box theater.

Roundabout Theatre Company is one of the country's leading not-for-profit theatres. The company contributes invaluably to New York's cultural life by staging the highest quality revivals of classic plays and musicals and develops and produces new works by today's writers and composers. Roundabout consistently partners great artists with great works to bring a fresh and exciting interpretation that makes each production relevant and important to today's audiences.

Roundabout Theatre Company currently produces at three permanent homes each of which is designed specifically to enhance the needs of the Roundabout's mission. Off-Broadway, the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses the Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre, with its simple sophisticated design is perfectly suited to showcasing new plays. The grandeur of its Broadway home on 42nd Street, American Airlines Theatre, sets the ideal stage for the classics. Roundabout's Studio 54 provides an exciting and intimate Broadway venue for its musical and special event productions. Together these three distinctive venues serve to enhance the work on each of its stages.

American Airlines is the official airline of Roundabout Theatre Company. Roundabout productions are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts; and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. American Express is the 2008-2009 season sponsor of the Roundabout Theatre Company. The Westin New York is the official hotel of Roundabout Theatre Company.

Roundabout Theatre Company's 2008-2009 season also includes Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, starring Frank Langella, directed by Doug Hughes; David Rabe's Streamers, directed by Scott Ellis; Rodgers & Hart's Pal Joey, starring Stockard Channing, Matthew Risch & Martha Plimpton, directed by Joe Mantello; Lisa Loomer's Distracted featuring Cynthia Nixon, directed by Mark Brokaw; Steven Levenson's The Language of Trees, directed by Alex Timbers; Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, starring Mary-Louise Parker, Michael Cerveris, Paul Sparks and Peter Stormare, directed by Ian Rickson; Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist, starring Matthew Broderick, directed by David Grindley and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, starring (in order of speaking) Nathan Lane, Bill Irwin, John Goodman, David Strathairn, directed by Anthony Page. Roundabout's sold out production of The 39 Steps is making its second Broadway transfer to the Helen Hayes Theatre on January 21st, 2009.

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