06/29/2025
Paul Libin, a towering figure in the American theater whose near seven-decade career included producing more than 250 Broadway, Off Broadway and touring productions, leading Circle in the Square Theatre for 62 years, serving as Executive Vice President and Producing Director of Jujamcyn Theaters for 28 years, and presiding as President of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS for 24 years, died on June 27 in New York City after a brief illness. He was 94 years old.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has lost one of its foremost trailblazers. Paul Libin, our beloved president for more than 24 years until his retirement in 2018, passed away over the weekend.
“Without Paul’s extraordinary support, unique professional insight, sincere – often blunt – counsel and genuine friendship, Broadway Cares as you know it now would not exist,” Executive Director Danny Whitman said.
The lives of millions in communities across the country, including Paul’s beloved Broadway theater community, have been lifted up and their well-being assured because when we asked for his help, Paul enthusiastically said, “Yes.”
We will miss him dearly.
📸 by Benjamin Norman for The New York Times
