season with Tennessee Williams's Not About Nightingales, which opened in February 1999. Quintero died several hours after the theater reopened; the theater hosted an event in his honor a few months later. During late 1999, the theater space was leased to HBO, which used the space for taping The Chris Rock Show. 21st century In early 2000, the theater hosted Sam Shepard's play True West, which ran for 154 performances. This was followed later that year by a revival of the musical The Rocky Horror Show, which ran through early 2002. The play Metamorphoses, which opened at the Circle in March 2002, ran for 401 performances over the next year. The theater next staged Yasmina Reza's comedy Life (x) 3 in 2003 and Bryony Lavery's drama Frozen in 2004. The Circle's next production, the musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, had over 1,100 performances from 2005 to 2008. After the success of that musical, the Circle hosted the musical Glory Days, which closed after a single performance on May 6, 2008. The next year, the Circle hosted a revival of Alan Ayckbourn's musical comedy The Norman Conquests. The William Gibson play The Miracle Worker ran at the Circle for 28 performances in early 2010, followed the same year by the Eric Simonson play Lombardi. The Circle next staged the musical Godspell, which opened in November 2011 and ran for several months. It was followed by two relatively short-lived shows: the musical Soul Doctor, which had 66 performances in late 2013, and the play Bronx Bombers, which ran for less than a month in early 2014. The Circle also hosted two more successful plays in 2014: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill and The River, both of which recouped their production costs. The theater then hosted the musical Fun Home, which opened in 2015 and ran for more than a year, and the musical In Transit, which opened in 2016 and lasted 181 performances. At the end of the decade, the Circle hosted two musical revivals: Once on This Island, which ran from November 2017 to January 2019, and an adaptation of Oklahoma!, which ran from April 2019 to January 2020. The theatre temporarily closed on March 12, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It reopened on September 23, 2021, with previews of Chicken & Biscuits, which ran through November 2021. Next, the Circle hosted a revival