Contemporary comedic actors such as Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, and Fanny Brice attended shows at the theater.
He attended Sydney's performances in Elmer Rice's play The Adding Machine[2] and also directed his son in three productions at the theater.
[4] Chaplin also helped Epstein obtain the rights to and direct Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright William Saroyan's 1949 play Sam Ego's House at the Circle Theater.
[2] A movie executive counselled Epstein not to take a credit on Limelight, made during the period in which Chaplin had become a target of McCarthyism.
[2] In Europe, Epstein teamed up with Chaplin as an associate producer on A King in New York, shot in London.
[11] Sydney Chaplin appeared in three Epstein projects, including films Follow That Man, A Countess From Hong Kong, and The Adding Machine,[3] and Broadway plays Bells are Ringing.