To Todd Haimes, whose Roundabout Theater Company regularly revives European classics for Broadway audiences, it is no surprise that "more and more adaptations and translations are done by playwrights."

Some directors revive classics, others deconstruct them.

It screens indie works by new filmmakers and also revives classics and obscure oldies that are usually screened in programs organized around a specific theme or director, from Luis Buñuel to Ken Brown's psychedelia.

In contrast, the Roundabout Theater, the other nonprofit company on Broadway reviving classics, began its renewal campaign in March.

He has also revived old Russian classics.

But Todd Haimes, the managing director of the Roundabout Theater, the other nonprofit company reviving classics in a Tony-eligible house, says his theater does invite voters.

The Jose Limon Dance Company is to be blessed for its mission of reviving lost classics.

Yet he can refresh as well as revive classics.

The dancing opened with a tribute to a major project the festival began in 1988 to revive classics by black choreographers: the Black Tradition in American Modern Dance.

The menu became known for reviving British classics, including faggots, fish cakes, braised oxtails and bread and butter pudding.