Cherry Lane Theater

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The Cherry Lane Theatre has long been a home for nontraditional and experimental works. Particularly during the 1950s and '60s, it hosted many avant garde performances that were identified with the counterculture.

Constructed, 1817

The building was constructed as a farm silo in 1817, and also served as a brewery, tobacco warehouse, and box factory

Opened, 1923

Evelyn Vaughn, William S. Rainey, Reginald Travers & Edna St. Vincent Millay converted the structure into a theater they christened the Cherry Lane Playhouse

Renovation, 1954

The theatre received a significant makeover when it acquired much of the expensive furnishings sold off by Rockefeller Center's failing Center Theatre.

Renovation, 2025

Factoids

Feb 9, 1924-Its first reviewed show opened was Saturday Night by Robert Presnell.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay,Evelyn Vaughn, William S. Rainey, Reginald Travers & Edna St. Vincent Millay converted the structure into a theater

Bob Dylan,Occasionally, the theatre hosted musical performances, providing a venue for Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger long before their ascensions to fame.

F. Scott Fitzgerald,A succession of major American plays was produced at the theater by writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Elmer Rice in the 1920

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Rockefeller Center

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1962

Publicity photograph of Harold Pinter in front of the Cherry Lane Theatre

1934

Actors Sam Maupin, Christopher Bernau and Michael Burg

Actors Alice Walker and Christopher Bernau

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