What happened to Todd Haimes (Theatrical Producer)?

CEO of Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes has been announced dead. According to close sources, he died from complications after several years of battling osteosarcoma. He was 66 years at the time of death.

He was one of the most successful people to operate a theatre from the ’90s to the ’00s with great achievements to his name.

Haimes began his career at a very young age. In 1983, he joined the Roundabout as a managing director. During that time, the company was in financial ruins, recording debts of $2.4 million while struggling to operate only a rented space located in Chelsea.

He was able to stabilize the finances of the company and amassed additional funds to set a tremendous fortune. He became the producing director in 1989 at the age of 32.

In 1991, he opened Roundabout’s first Broadway theatre located in Criterion Center at Broadway and 45th Street. He went on to operate a multimillion-dollar  renovation of the Selwyn Theatre, which eventually became Roundabout’s flagship American Airlines Theatre and home to classic Broadway plays and musicals.

Since 2000 when Haimes opened the American Airlines Theatre, there have been many successful shows like The Man Who Came to Dinner (starring Nathan Lane), Big River (2004), The Pajama Game (2006), On the 20th Century (2015), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2016), and A Soldier’s Play (2020).