Circle-in-the-Square
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
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Circle-in-the-Square, New York. The first theatre of this name, in Sheridan Square, was designed specifically for
theatre-in-the-round productions by the Loft Players under José
Quintero. It opened in 1951 and its revival of Tennessee
Williams's Summer and Smoke (1952) was highly praised. The building was closed as a fire hazard in 1954, but reopened to become one of
Off-Broadway's most popular playhouses, staging in 1956 a revival of O'Neill's
The Iceman Cometh directed by Quintero. In 1960 the demolition of the building forced the company to move to the former New Stages Theatre in Bleecker Street, where they opened with
Wilder's Our Town. In 1972 the Circle-in-the-Square moved uptown to 1633 Broadway. The new theatre, the Joseph E. Levine, in the basement of the Uris Theatre (now the
Gershwin), was part of the first new theatre building to be erected on Broadway in 44 years. Seating 650, it has an adaptable stage and the seats are sharply tiered. It opened with O'Neill's
Mourning Becomes Electra. Other interesting productions included Tennessee Williams's
The Glass Menagerie (1975);
Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea (1976), with Vanessa
Redgrave, and
John Gabriel Borkman (1980); and Shaw's
Heartbreak House (1983), with Rex
Harrison, and
You Never Can Tell (1986), with Uta
Hagen. The old theatre continued as the Circle-in-the-Square Downtown.
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