“His mom is a great producer, and his dad is a real estate tycoon, and, like it or not, being a theater owner is real estate — that’s the name of the game,” said the director Michael Mayer (“Spring Awakening,” “Head Over Heels”). He has known Jordan Roth since he was in college, when Daryl Roth, wanting her son to have a gay role model, introduced them, Mr. Mayer recalled.

“He can synthesize his father’s business acumen and his mother’s taste and passion,” Mr. Mayer added, “and he’s the best part of both of them in one.”

During a series of interviews, Mr. Roth was open but careful — he speaks slowly, and takes long pauses to consider his words. And he was emotional, tearing up, for example, as he talked about how much he loves “Frozen,” both as he imagined that it could be the first show to which he brings his younger son, and as he marveled at public vulnerability of its stars.

Mr. Roth saw a lot of theater as a child, and through that he learned to accept himself. “Through my life, at different stages, the things I felt wrong about me offstage were right onstage,” he said. “And that is why we tell stories. We tell stories to show who we are. And who we can be.”

After graduating from Princeton University, he headed straight into the industry. At 23, he successfully produced “The Donkey Show,” a risqué riff on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” at a downtown club. By 25, he was bringing the “sweet transvestite” to Broadway, producing a revival of “The Rocky Horror Show” that ran nearly 10 times longer than the original.

He joined Jujamcyn in 2006 as a resident producer; the next year, he became a vice president. In 2009, he bought a stake and became president, while simultaneously working on his M.B.A. at Columbia, and in 2013 he became the company’s majority owner.

He lives in a high-style apartment, overlooking the Hudson River in the West Village, with his husband, the television producer Richie Jackson, who this fall is producing the Broadway revival of another classic of gay theater, “Torch Song.” Together they are raising two boys — they co-parent Jackson, who is 18, with Mr. Jackson’s ex, the actor BD Wong, and they also have a toddler, Levi, who is about to turn 2. The family has a second home in East Hampton, where Mr. Roth has discovered a new passion: English gardens.