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Cherry Lane Theatre

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Off Broadway Open 19241934 on this page12 productions

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 167-seat main stage and a 60-seat studio. == History == === Origins and conversion === The building was constructed as a farm silo in 1817, and also served as a brewery, tobacco warehouse, and box factory before Evelyn Vaughn, William S. Rainey, Reginald Travers & Edna St. Vincent Millay converted the structure into a theater they christened the Cherry Lane Playhouse. It opened in 1923. Its first review…

By decade12 productions across 2 decades

  1. 1920s 10
  2. 1930s 2

Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.

Longest runs hereby performances

1924 The Way of the World November 17, 1924 120 perf.
1924 The Man Who Ate the Popomack March 24, 1924 · Reginald Travers 56 perf.
1925 Wild Birds April 9, 1925 · John Wray 44 perf.
1925 Polly October 10, 1925 · Gordon Davis 43 perf.
1928 The Waltz of the Dogs April 25, 1928 35 perf.
1929 The Subway January 25, 1929 · Adele Gutman Nathan 35 perf.
1928 The Dark Mirror November 9, 1928 · Adele Gutman Nathan 32 perf.
1929 A Trip to Scarborough March 18, 1929 · Bushnell Cheney 30 perf.

Ranked among the 11 runs here that record a performance count. 1 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here12 productions

1924 The Man Who Ate the Popomack March 24, 1924 · Original · no show page 56 perf.
1924 The Way of the World November 17, 1924 · Revival · no show page 120 perf.
1925 Polly October 10, 1925 · Original · no show page 43 perf.
1925 Wild Birds April 9, 1925 · Original · no show page 44 perf.
1928 The Dark Mirror November 9, 1928 · Original · no show page 32 perf.
1928 The Waltz of the Dogs April 25, 1928 · Original · no show page 35 perf.
1929 A Trip to Scarborough March 18, 1929 · Original · no show page 30 perf.
1929 The Dragon March 25, 1929 · Original · no show page 5 perf.
1929 The Subway January 25, 1929 · Original · no show page 35 perf.
1929 The Vegetable April 10, 1929 · Original · no show page 13 perf.
1933 Man Crazy June 18, 1933 · Original · no show page 8 perf.
1934 A Successful Calamity February 12, 1934 · Revival · no show page

In the literature8 passages

  • New York [Off-Broadway]: Cherry Lane Theatre, 17 May 1971 [includes Broadway: 2,645 performances]ebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
  • Produced New York, Cherry Lane Theatre, Sept. 17, 1961; Paris, Theatre de France, Oct. 21, 1963. 10. Words and Music* (Mots et musique). Radio play. Published 1962. Produced London, BBC Third Programme, Nov. 13, 1962. Music: John Beckett. 11.theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
  • mer Theater, June 14, 1963; New York, Cherry Lane Theatre, Jan. 4, 1964; Paris, Theatre du Pavilion de Marsan, June 4, 1964. 12.theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
  • CHERRY LANE THEATRE Opened Sunday, October 24. 1971.* Ken Gaston, Leonard Goldberg and A. I Baron in association with Steven Beckler and Jontheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt
  • CHERRY LANE THEATRE Opened Wednesday, January 19, 1972* Arthur D. Zinberg presents:theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt

What this page does not know

  • What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it — concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
  • How long 1 of these run lasted. No performance count on the record.
  • When 12 of these runs ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed — nobody wrote down the date.

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