Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks, Marylouise Burke to Celebrate Cherry Lane Theatre Reopening With True West Reading
The Off-Broadway theatre will reopen its doors with a week of one-night only events.
Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks, and Marylouise Burke
The Cherry Lane Theatre is reopening its doors with a bang. The theatre has announced a week’s worth of one-night-only programming September 8–14, with events hosted by Spike Lee, Sofia Coppola, Jodie Foster, and more.
The events includes a film screening of 25th Hour and a Q&A with Spike Lee (September 8); a staged reading of True West featuring Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks, and Marylouise Burke, and directed by Lila Neugebauer (September 9); a night of comedy with Jerrod Carmichael (September 10); a conversation with Malcolm Gladwell and Brandi Carlile (September 11); a screening of the film Foxes followed by a Q&A with Sofia Coppola and Jodie Foster, the first of the venue’s Sundays with Sofia series (September 14); and a public block party in front of the theatre, running from 3-6 PM September 14.
Tickets to all events will be $59 and available for purchase via a lottery system. The lottery will be open for 48 hours beginning August 25 at 12 PM ET at CherryLaneTheatre.org.
The first full-length production at the newly reopened Cherry Lane will be Natalie Palamides’ one-woman comedy Weer, September 20—November 9, with an opening night of September 28. In the show, Palamides play both halves of a couple.
The longtime Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre, located at 38 Commerce Street in New York City’s Greenwich Village, has been closed for the last two years. It was acquired by film studio A24 in 2022. A24 plans to program theatre, one-night-only special events, film screenings, and other work in the 167-seat venue.
The Cherry Lane’s renovations include new seating installed, updated technical equipment, film projector and screen installed, and the lobby upgraded with a concessions kiosk. The space will also be connected to a new bar and restaurant called Wild Cherry, from Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr. The stage and exterior remain intact.
The Cherry Lane Theatre is considered the oldest continuously running Off-Broadway theatre in NYC, having been operating since 1923. It’s hosted works from writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Lorraine Hansberry, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee, Amiri Baraka, Sam Shepard, and Lanford Wilson.
A24, whose film roster includes the Oscar-winning Everything, Everywhere All at Once and Moonlight, is the latest film studio to get into theatre producing. This season, Netflix had its first shows on Broadway with Stranger Things: The First Shadow, while Universal is the producer on Death Becomes Her.
Visit CherryLaneTheatre.org.