His first Broadway play, David Henry Hwang's "Face Value" in 1993, was produced alongside Stuart Ostrow and Jujamcyn Theaters, and it closed after eight preview performances. He started a deal with Jujamcyn to develop and produce new plays for the theater chain. In 1994, Rudin won the Best Musical Tony Award for his production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Passion". The following year, he co-produced Kathleen Turner's Broadway comeback, "Indiscretions", and Ralph Fiennes' New York stage debut in "Hamlet". In 1996, Rudin produced the revival of the Stephen Sondheim and Larry Gelbart musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", for which Nathan Lane won his first Tony Award. His subsequent productions and co-productions have included "Skylight," "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?," "Seven Guitars", "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan", "Copenhagen", "Deuce", "The History Boys", "Beckett/Albee", "Closer", "The Blue Room", "Doubt," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Year of Magical Thinking, A Behanding in Spokane, God of Carnage, The House of Blue Leaves", and "Exit The King."