The Philanthropist Tickets

Written as a response to Molière's The Misanthrope, Christopher Hampton’s wicked comedy examines the empty, insular lives of college intellectuals. At the center of the story is Philip, a professor who seems almost absurdly removed from the political turmoil surrounding him, including the assassination of the Prime Minister and his cabinet.

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Tickets at Todd Haimes Theatre

The Todd Haimes Theatre was built in 1918 by producers (and brothers) Arch and Edgar Selwyn and was originally named The Selwyn Theatre. Like many other theaters, it fell victim to the economic woes of the Great Depression and became a movie house in the 1930s.


The venue was a movie theater for almost 70 years, until it was purchased by the Roundabout Theatre Company in the late 1990s. After an expensive overhaul, it reopened as The American Airlines Theatre in 2000. In January 2024, the theater was renamed in memory of Roundabout Theatre Company's longtime artistic director and chief executive Todd Haimes.

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227 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
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About The Philanthropist on Broadway

Venue

Todd Haimes Theatre
227 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
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Opening

April 26, 2009

Story for The Philanthropist

Two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick ( The Producers) starts in this incisive reversal of Moliere's The Misanthrope as a philology professor who falls all over himself to remain a beacon of good, propriety, and honesty in a world full of rudeness, lies... and public assassinations. David Grindley ( Pygamalion) directs this bourgeois comedy by Christopher Hampton ( Les Liaisons Dangereuses).

April 2009