Jordan Roth stood on the side of West 52nd street in New York City, fighting to hold back tears — of joy, relief, pride, exhaustion — in front of the August Wilson theater, where Wednesday evening “Pass Over” became the first play to give a performance on Broadway in 16 months.He watched as the play’s audience bounded on to the street, where a block party was meant to transfigure the complicated and bittersweet emotions of returning to theater into some clarity...
Jujamcyn Theaters
Jordan
Roth
President
A five-time Tony Award-winning producer, Roth was front and center as Broadway came roaring back to life post-lockdown in July, with returning shows “Springsteen on Broadway” and “Hadestown” and “Pass Over,” the first new play to open on the Great White Way since the pandemic descended. Other reopenings followed, including “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” “The Book of Mormon” and “Moulin Rouge,” which won 10 Tony Awards in September 2021, including best musical. As president of Jujamcyn Theaters, he oversees five of Broadway’s top houses (the St. James, August Wilson, Walter Kerr, Al Hirschfeld and Eugene O’Neill theaters). He also founded the now-defunct social networking website Culturalist and produced and starred in the animated YouTube series “The Birds and the BS.”