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Cherry Lane Theatre

The Cherry Lane Theatre is the oldest continuously running off-Broadway theater in New York City. The theater is located at 38 Commerce Street between Barrow and Bedford Streets in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. The Cherry Lane Theatre contains a 179-seat main stage and a 60-seat studio.[1]

Address

38 Commerce Street
Manhattan, New York City
United States

A24

Cherry Lane Theatre Company, Managing Director, Mary Geerlof

179 main stage, 60 studio

December 1923

Cleon Throckmorton (conversion)

Productions[edit]

Productions staged at the Cherry Lane include The Rimers of Eldritch, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life, Fortune's Fool with Alan Bates and Frank Langella, The Sum of Us with Tony Goldwyn, the Richard Maltby Jr./David Shire musical Closer Than Ever, Sam Shepard's True West, Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, John-Michael Tebelak and Stephen Schwartz's Godspell, Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven, Laura Pedersen's The Brightness of Heaven (later changed to For Heaven's Sake!), the long-running Nunsense, and David Rimmer's Album, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.


Also presented was a 25th-anniversary revival of Nunsense, running June 15 to July 18, 2010.[23]

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Official website

at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

Cherry Lane Theatre