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The Cherry Lane Theatre (CLT), located at 38 Commerce Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, is New York City's oldest continuously running off-Broadway theater. The Cherry Lane contains a 179-seat main stage and a 60-seat studio.〔Lee, Felicia R. ("Cherry Lane Theater Artistic Director to Leave and Sell Building" ), ''The New York Times'', December 21, 2010. Retrieved December 24, 2010. (WebCitation archive ).〕 ==History== The building was constructed as a farm silo in 1817, and also served as a tobacco warehouse and box factory before Edna St. Vincent Millay and other members of the Provincetown Players converted the structure into a theater they christened the Cherry Lane Playhouse, which opened in 1924 with the theatrical presentation "Saturday Night," by Richard Fresnell.〔("History: 1924-1929" ), Cherry Lane Theatre (official site). Retrieved December 24, 2010. (WebCitation archive ).〕 This was followed by the plays "The Man Who Ate Popmack," by W. J. Turner, directed by Reginald Travers, on March 24, 1924; and ''The Way of the World'' by William Congreve and produced by the Cherry Lane Players Inc., opening November 17, 1924.〔 The Living Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd, and the Downtown Theater movement all took root there, and it developed a reputation as a place where aspiring playwrights and emerging voices could showcase their work. A succession of major American plays streamed out of the small edifice, by writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Elmer Rice in the 1920s;〔 Eugene O'Neill, Sean O'Casey, Clifford Odets, W. H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Luigi Pirandello, and William Saroyan in the 1940s;〔("History: 1940-1949" ), Cherry Lane Theatre〕 Samuel Beckett, Pablo Picasso, T. S. Eliot, Jean Anouilh, and Tennessee Williams in the 1950s;〔("History: 1950-1959" ), Cherry Lane Theatre〕 Harold Pinter, LeRoi Jones, Eugène Ionesco, Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, and Lorraine Hansberry, in the 1960s, as well as Edward Albee, staging a large number of his plays;〔("History: 1960-1969" ), Cherry Lane Theatre〕 and Sam Shepard, Joe Orton and David Mamet in the 1970s and 1980s.〔("History: 1970-1979" ), Cherry Lane Theatre〕〔("History: 1980-1989" ), Cherry Lane Theatre〕 Beckett's ''Happy Days'' had its world premiere at the Cherry Lane, directed by Alan Schneider, on September 17, 1961.〔 Sam Shepard's "True West," had its New York premiere at the Cherry Lane on October 17, 1982, starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, and produced by Kevin Dowling, Wayne Adams and Harold Thau. Angelina Fiordellisi bought the theater and the building in 1996 for $1.7 million, and renovated it for $3 million.〔 That year, Fiordellisi, as artistic director, Susann Brinkley co-founded the Cherry Lane Theatre Company.〔("History: 1990-1999" ), Cherry Lane Theatre〕 The following year, Fiordellisi founded the Cherry Lane Alternative.〔 In 1998, Fiordellisi, Brinkley, and playwright Michael Weller co-founded the company's Mentor Project, which matches established dramatists with aspiring playwrights in one-to-one mentoring relationships. Each mentor works with a playwright to perfect a single work during the season-long process, which culminates in a showcase production. Participants have included Pulitzer Prize-winners David Auburn, Charles Fuller, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Alfred Uhry, Jules Feiffer, and Wendy Wasserstein, as well as Pulitzer nominees A.R. Gurney, David Henry Hwang (Tony Award, Obie Award), Craig Lucas, Theresa Rebeck, and Obie Award-winners Ed Bullins (three-time winner) and Lynn Nottage, as mentors. From the outset, Edward Albee has participated as the Mentor's Mentor by attending Project readings and performances and conducting a yearly Master Class. Fiordellisi has founded numerous other programs at the theater, including a Master Class series in 2000. In 2006, the theater was honored with a Village Award〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/events/awards.htm )〕 by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cherry Lane Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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