Todd Haimes Theatre

Partner: Promethean Builders
Architect: Allied Works Architects

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Accurise Consulting worked with the construction manager to establish the baseline schedule, perform the monthly schedule updates, and perform various schedule analyses for the comprehensive renovation of the Todd Haimes Theatre, home to the Roundabout Theatre Company and one of Broadway's historic gems on 42nd Street.

The $24 million renovation — the most significant upgrade to the venue in nearly three decades — modernized the historic Broadway theatre while preserving its early Italian Renaissance interior. The scope included expanded accessible seating, an induction loop for hearing-aid users, fully renovated restrooms and dressing rooms, modernized elevators, a new digital marquee with a custom blade design honoring the theatre's namesake, restoration of the historic interior finishes, and upgrades to core building systems including HVAC, fire and life safety, plumbing, and electrical. The fifth floor was reimagined as a flex-use space for rehearsals, readings, and community engagement programming.

Previously known as the American Airlines Theatre and originally as the Selwyn Theatre, the venue was built in 1918 by producing brothers Arch and Edgar Selwyn and designed by architect George Keister. It opened on October 2, 1918, with Information Please, a play co-written by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin and starring Cowl. The theatre has since hosted hundreds of stage productions and, during a long mid-century stretch as a movie house, countless film screenings.

The Selwyn was one of more than forty theatres built in and around Broadway in the early twentieth century — a building boom that established Times Square as the new epicenter of large-scale theatrical production, displacing the older theatre districts of Union Square and Madison Square. Roundabout Theatre Company assumed the lease in the late 1990s, completed an initial $26 million restoration in 2000, and renamed the venue in 2024 to honor its late artistic director and CEO Todd Haimes, who led the company for forty years.