{"id":174798,"date":"2025-08-25T16:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174798\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:48:12","slug":"michael-shannon-paul-sparks-marylouise-burke-to-celebrate-cherry-lane-theatre-reopening-with-true-west-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174798\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks, Marylouise Burke to Celebrate Cherry Lane Theatre Reopening With True West Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"eyebrow eyebrow-custom\" title=\"Off-Broadway News\" style=\"color:#030303;\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/category\/off-broadway-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Off-Broadway News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Shannon, Paul Sparks, Marylouise Burke to Celebrate Cherry Lane Theatre Reopening With True West Reading<\/p>\n<p>The Off-Broadway theatre will reopen its doors with a week of one-night only events.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Michael-Shannon-Paul-Sparks-Marylouise-Burke-HR.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks, and Marylouise Burke <\/p>\n<p>The Cherry Lane Theatre is reopening its doors with a bang. The theatre has announced a week&#8217;s worth of one-night-only programming September 8\u201314, with events hosted by\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/spike-lee-vault-0000123309\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spike Lee<\/a>, Sofia Coppola, Jodie Foster, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The events includes a film screening of\u00a025th Hour and a Q&amp;A with Spike Lee (September 8); a staged reading of\u00a0True West featuring <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/michael-shannon-vault-0000094108\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Shannon<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/paul-sparks-vault-0000068605\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Sparks<\/a>, and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/marylouise-burke-vault-0000063140\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marylouise Burke<\/a>, and directed by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/lila-neugebauer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lila Neugebauer<\/a> (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\u00a0Foxes followed by a Q&amp;A with Sofia Coppola and Jodie Foster, the first of the venue&#8217;s\u00a0Sundays with Sofia series (September 14); and a public block party in front of the theatre, running from 3-6\u00a0PM September 14.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to all events will be $59 and available for purchase via a lottery system. The lottery will be open for 48 hours\u00a0beginning\u00a0August 25 at 12 PM ET at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cherrylanetheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/cherrylanetheatre.org\/\" data-outlook-id=\"ca3de2e8-3022-4065-8d86-5c94eda44f4e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CherryLaneTheatre.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The first full-length production at the newly reopened Cherry Lane will be\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/natalie-palamides\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Natalie Palamides<\/a>\u2019 one-woman comedy Weer,\u00a0September 20\u2014November 9, with an opening night of September\u00a028. In the show, Palamides play both halves of a couple.<\/p>\n<p>The longtime Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre, located at 38 Commerce Street in New York City&#8217;s Greenwich Village,\u00a0has been closed for the last two years. It was acquired\u00a0by 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.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Cherry Lane&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Cherry Lane Theatre is considered the oldest continuously running Off-Broadway theatre in NYC, having been operating since 1923. It&#8217;s hosted works from writers such as <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/f-scott-fitzgerald-vault-0000013187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/john-dos-passos-vault-0000026325\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Dos Passos<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/ts-eliot-vault-0000007399\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T.S. Eliot<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/gertrude-stein-vault-0000025718\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gertrude Stein<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/lorraine-hansberry-vault-0000013573\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorraine Hansberry<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/samuel-beckett-vault-0000027534\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Beckett<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/edward-albee-vault-0000018564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Albee<\/a>, Amiri Baraka, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/sam-shepard-vault-0000027673\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Shepard<\/a>, and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/lanford-wilson-vault-0000026739\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lanford Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">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 <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/stranger-things-the-first-shadow-broadway-marquis-theatre-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stranger Things: The First Shadow<\/a>, while Universal is the producer on Death Becomes Her.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/cherrylanetheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/cherrylanetheatre.org\/\" data-outlook-id=\"679ea56b-a076-4c8f-8d63-6f9dec9188fc\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">CherryLaneTheatre.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off-Broadway News Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks, Marylouise Burke to Celebrate Cherry Lane Theatre Reopening With True West Reading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":174799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-174798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115090430839776870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}