Steven has spent the past 30 years as a theatrical producer, general manager and theatre owner in both New York and London.
Broadway includes: Whoopi - The 20th Anniversary Show (Lyceum, starring Whoopi Goldberg); Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Longacre, starring Ellen Burstyn); Our Town (Booth, starring Paul Newman); I’m Not Rappaport (Booth, starring Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen); Dame Edna: The Royal Tour (Booth); The Beauty Queen Of Leenane (Water Kerr); The Lonesome West (Lyceum); Waiting In The Wings (Walter Kerr, starring Lauren Bacall).
West End includes: In The Bar Of A Tokyo Hotel, Piaf, The Mikado, Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, Long Story Short, Finian’s Rainbow, Ushers: The Front Of House Musical, Jerry Herman’s Dear World, the Olivier Award-winning La Bohème, 6 Actors In Search Of A Director (written and directed by Steven Berkoff), Fascinating Aïda – Cheap Flights, The Man On Her Mind, John Leguizamo - Ghetto Klown, Patricia Routledge – Facing The Music, Thrill Me (Charing Cross); Singular Sensations, Tom Stoppard’s The Invention Of Love (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Nixon’s Nixon (Comedy); Gross Indecency (Gielgud); The Boys In The Band (Aldwych).
Off-Broadway includes: Waiting For Godot (Theatre At St. Clements; 50th Anniversary Production); Kiki And Herb (Cherry Lane); As Bees In Honey Drown (Lucille Lortel); Gross Indecency (Minetta Lane); Molly Sweeney (Criterion Centre; starring Jason Robards and Alfred Molina); The Syringa Tree (Playhouse 91).
Film includes: Our Town (Showtime, starring Paul Newman); Whoopi (HBO, starring Whoopi Goldberg); The Man On Her Mind (The Talking Pictures Company).
Steven’s productions have been the recipient of 14 Tony Award nominations, 5 Tony Awards, as well as the recipient of the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and OBIE Awards. In 1999, he was selected by Crain’s New York Business of one of the “40 under 40” outstanding business people in New York. Steven is an owner of the Charing Cross Theatre in London and is a past owner of the Actors’ Playhouse, Village Gate Theatre, Gramercy Theatre and Playhouse 91 in New York. He has lectured on theatre at Columbia University and the New School in New York and is currently on the faculty of the London College of Music. He is a member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers and holds an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of West London.
