Cherry Lane Theatre
Performing arts theater · West Village ·
Historic off-Broadway venue featuring diverse performances and intimate atmosphere
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38 Commerce St, New York, NY 10014 Get directions
Historic off-Broadway venue featuring diverse performances and intimate atmosphere
38 Commerce St, New York, NY 10014 Get directions
"I see shows at Cherry Lane Theater on Commerce Street — founded in 1923, it’s the oldest continuously running off-Broadway theater in New York and still presents readings and performances." - Matt Ortile
"Now run by film studio A24, the venue at 38 Commerce Street in the West Village is being positioned as a clubhouse for events and film screenings. The lineup coinciding with the Wild Cherry restaurant opening includes a sold-out conversation with Spike Lee and Weer, a one-woman comedy by Natalie Palamides that won an award at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival." - Melissa McCart
"An historic off‑Broadway theater at 38 Commerce Street (the space dates to 1923) is being readied to reopen under film studio A24 as a multiuse clubhouse for events, performances and film screenings. Community board filings and a 2023 liquor application (which lists roughly 60 dining-room seats) indicate plans for a lobby restaurant and bar being developed in partnership with Galactus Group LLC (Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson), the restaurateurs behind Frenchette, Le Rock and Le Veau D’Or who have experience honoring a space’s past and operating within cultural institutions. Once home to a restaurant and celebrated for counterculture, off‑Broadway plays and appearances by figures such as Bob Dylan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sam Shepard and David Mamet, the venue struggled in later years but is now being reimagined to blend cinematic programming, concessions and hospitality — leveraging A24’s savvy marketing (including branded chocolate bars) — while aiming to respect the building’s storied history." - Emma Orlow
"Comedian Alison Leiby’s brilliant show Oh God, A Show About Abortion manages to make the process of exercising your reproductive rights–from the bedroom to the waiting room–funny even in these fraught times. The show is running at the Cherry Lane Theater through June 30th, and this Saturday Alison and chef Natasha Pickowicz (of Never Ending Taste and Café Altro Paradiso) are hosting a one-time bake sale at the theater from 4:30-6:30pm. All proceeds go to The Brigid Alliance, a nonprofit that arranges and funds everything for those who need to travel long distances for safe abortion care. You can pre-order bake sale vouchers online here, as well as buy baked goods and totes in person day-of. Tickets to the show can be purchased here." - neha talreja
"Comedian Alison Leiby’s brilliant show Oh God, A Show About Abortion manages to make the process of exercising your reproductive rights–from the bedroom to the waiting room–funny even in these fraught times. The show is running at the Cherry Lane Theater through June 30th, and this Saturday Alison and chef Natasha Pickowicz (of Never Ending Taste and Café Altro Paradiso) are hosting a one-time bake sale at the theater from 4:30-6:30pm. All proceeds go to The Brigid Alliance, a nonprofit that arranges and funds everything for those who need to travel long distances for safe abortion care. You can pre-order bake sale vouchers online here, as well as buy baked goods and totes in person day-of. Tickets to the show can be purchased here. We haven’t been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists." - Team Infatuation
