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The DR2 Theatre, built in 2002, is the newest addition to the Off-Broadway scene in Union Square.  A beautiful and intimate 99-seat theatre, the DR2 is the former annex of the Union Square Savings Bank, now The Daryl Roth Theatre.  The DR2 has served as home to THOM PAIN (based on nothing), EARS ON A BEATLE, and other top notch productions.  For rental information, click here or contact us.

The Daryl Roth Theatre, formerly the Union Square Savings Bank, is located at 20 Union Square East, and is the sister theatre of the DR2.  Built in the 1840’s, this Landmark building was revived as a theatre by producer Daryl Roth in 1996, and has served as home to the international Off-Broadway hit De La Guarda , and most recently, Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad & Beautiful.   The Daryl Roth Theatre is known throughout the Theatre community as a versatile and non-traditional theatre space, and has housed events ranging from full scale commercial productions to pop up retail stores (Ben and Jerry's) and Fashion Week.

Daryl Roth (Artistic Director) is privileged to have produced five Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: Proof by David Auburn (2001 Tony Award Best Play, New York, National Tour); Wit by Margaret Edson (New York, London, and National Tour); How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel; Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women (New York, London and National Tour); and Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz.

Current Productions:  The new Kander and Ebb musical, Curtains, starring David Hyde Pierce and Debra Monk.   Upcoming productions:  Paul Rudnick’s new play, Regrets Only, starring Christine Baranski; Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, starring Vanessa Redgrave; Anna Deavere Smith’s new play, Let Me Down Easy; and Kenneth Lonergan’s new play, Starry Messenger, starring Matthew Broderick.

Other award winning Broadway productions include: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s Caroline, or Change; Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife  by Charles Busch; Oscar Wilde’s Salome, the Reading starring Al Pacino; Medea starring Fiona Shaw; Bea Arthur on Broadway; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992  by Anna Deavere Smith; and Nick and Nora by Arthur Laurents, Charles Strouse & Richard Maltby, Jr.

Off-Broadway credits include: Brian Copeland’s Not a Genuine Black Man; Sandra Bernhard’s Everything Bad and Beautiful, Bob Morris’ Assisted Loving; Kenny Finkle’s Indoor/Outdoor; Paul Grellong’s Manuscript; Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing); Stephen Guirgis’ Our Lady of 121^st Street directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman; Tea at Five starring Kate Mulgrew; Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads starring Lynn Redgrave; George C. Wolfe’s Harlem Song at the Apollo Theatre; Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby and Beckett/Albee; Snakebit by David Marshall Grant; Defying Gravity by Jane Anderson; Camping with Henry and Tom by Mark St. Germain; Old Wicked Songs (Pulitzer Prize finalist) by Jon Marans; The Baby Dance by Jane Anderson; Closer Than Ever, by Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire; and De La Guarda, which ran for 7 years as the inaugural production at the Daryl Roth Theatre.

Film credits include the Emmy-nominated HBO feature, Dinner with Friends, based on Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play; The Lady in Question, a documentary based on the career of Charles Busch, A Very Serious Person written by Charles Busch, starring Polly Bergen.  Boy Still Missing, written by Nancy Savoca based on the novel by John Searles, is in pre-production.

Dedicated to nurturing and supporting theatre artists, The Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award is given annually to an artist who has demonstrated exceptional talent and promise in his or her field.

Ms. Roth serves on the Board of Directors of Lincoln Center Theatre, the Sundance Institute, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Ms. Roth was profiled in The New Yorker and included in Crain’s “100 Most Influential Women in Business.” Awards and honors include: The National Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Patron of the Arts Award, The Jewish Theological Seminary’s Louis Marshall Award, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine Spirit of Achievement Award, The National Corporate Theatre Fund’s Chairman Award, and The Tisch School of the Arts Award for Artistic Leadership.

Adam Hess(General Manager) is privileged to be managing Ms. Roth’s two Off-Broadway theatres, The Daryl Roth Theatre and the DR2 Theatre. Hailing from Toronto, he has a diverse theatrical background that includes an original cast member of the Harold Prince/Susan Stroman helmed production of Show Boat, the role of Bobby Childs in the European tour of Crazy For You, assistant to Mr. Prince on the Philadelphia production Three, and the direction/choreography of a number of other productions. Mr. Hess holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan and is a recent graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he received a M.F.A. in Theatre Management and Producing.