Cherry Lane Theatre entrance

The Cherry Lane Theatre, located at 38 Commerce Street in the borough of Manhattan, is New York City's oldest, continuously running off-Broadway theater. The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Manhattan Queens Brooklyn Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...

A landmark in Greenwich Village’s cultural landscape, it was built as a farm silo in 1817, and also served as a tobacco warehouse and box factory before Edna St. Vincent Millay and other members of the Provincetown Players converted the structure into a theatre they christened the Cherry Lane Playhouse, which opened on March 24, 1924 with the play The Man Who Ate the Popomack. The Living Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd, and the Downtown Theater movement all took root there, and it developed a reputation as a place where aspiring playwrights and emerging voices could showcase their work. The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (pronounced Grennich Village; also called simply the Village) is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City. ... Edna St. ... The Provincetown Players was a theater company located in Provincetown, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, and famous for producing the plays of American playwright Eugene ONeill. ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in leap years). ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A playwright is an author of plays for performance in the theater. ...

In 1996, Angelina Fiordellisi revitalized Cherry Lane Theatre and within a year founded a resident non-profit company. Her aim is to sustain a community of playwrights and supporting theater artists, both seasoned and new, who provide a social mirror for a diverse, multigenerational audience with their work, much of it experimental in nature. Experimental theatre is a general term for various movements in Western theatre that began in the 20th century as a reaction against the then-dominant conventions governing the writing and production of drama, and against naturalism in particular. ...

Notable productions staged there include 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, Stephen Schwartz's Godspell, Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven, and the long-running phenomenon Nunsense. Alan Bates as butler in Gosford Park (2001) Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE, (February 17, 1934 – December 27, 2003) was a British actor. ... Frank Langella (born January 1, 1940 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American stage and film actor. ... The Sum of Us is a 1994 Australian movie starring Russell Crowe. ... Anthony Howard Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. ... Richard Maltby, Jr. ... Born in 1937, David Shire began scoring for television in the 60s and made the leap to scoring feature films in the early 70s. ... Actor Sam Shepard mulls over a scene in the motion picture Stealth, while filming on June 15, 2004, aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. ... True West Magazine (alternate title: TrueWest) is an American magazine that contains glossy articles and covers; reporting about events that happened in the Old West era. ... Joe Orton Joe Orton (born John Kingsley Orton 1 January 1933, Leicester, England – 9 August 1967, Islington, London) was a satirical modern playwright. ... Entertaining Mr Sloane is a play by Joe Orton. ... Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. ... Edward Albees The Zoo Story was written in 1958 and completed in just three weeks. ... Stephen Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. ... Godspell album cover (1971 Original Off-Broadway Cast) Godspell is a musical based on the Gospel of Saint Matthew, transposed into a contemporary urban setting, with music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by John-Michael Tebelak. ... Paul Osborn (September 4, 1901-May 12, 1988) was a playwrite and screenwriter most well known for writing the screen adaptation of East of Eden as well as South Pacific, The Yearling, and Sayonara. ...

External link

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