One can only imagine what Bill Maher and Scott Carter, his longtime executive producer-writer, talk about when the subject of religion comes up. For his first full-length play, the honcho behind “Real Time With Bill Maher” ruminates on the afterlife without God in “The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord,” which opened Sunday under the auspices of Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Carter has structured “Discord” around not one but three stabs at writing the gospel. Who knew that Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy each wrote a gospel, and as they belatedly discover,...
- 10/2/2017
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Snuggled at the curve of a quiet little Greenwich Village side street, the quaint and historic Cherry Lane Theatre is a perfect spot to engage in a quiet little drama.
- 9/6/2017
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
Out Of The Mouths Of Babes -- a new comedy by Israel Horovitz My Old Lady, with a cast starring Oscar winner and 5-time Tony nominee Estelle Parsons, two-time Tony winner Judith Ivey, along with Angelina Fiordellisi Zorba on Broadway oppositeAnthony Quinn and Francesca Choy-kee Disgraced - begins rehearsals May 12 prior to the start of previews June 7 and opening June 19, in a world-premiere production by Cherry Lane Theatre 38 Commerce St. in Greenwich Village. The play is directed by Barnet Kellman. The company just met the press, and BroadwayWorld was on hand - check out photo coverage below...
- 5/13/2016
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The actor says The Revisionist, his play about a self-involved novelist, is an exercise in introspection and he doesn’t care for critics of Batman v Superman
The third week of March must have been a blur for Jesse Eisenberg. On the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank promoting Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, to which he lends a maniacal millennial angst as Lex Luthor, he was also checking in on the west coast premiere of his three-person play, The Revisionist. Settling into a divan backstage, he is dressed in T-shirt and black jeans, looking anxious before his flight back to New York later that evening.
Stemming from his own experience grappling with self-doubt and career tumult, he wrote The Revisionist nearly 10 years ago and starred as the self-involved novelist, David, in the 2013 world premiere at New York’s Cherry Lane Theatre. Vanessa Redgrave played Marie, his second cousin, a holocaust survivor.
The third week of March must have been a blur for Jesse Eisenberg. On the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank promoting Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, to which he lends a maniacal millennial angst as Lex Luthor, he was also checking in on the west coast premiere of his three-person play, The Revisionist. Settling into a divan backstage, he is dressed in T-shirt and black jeans, looking anxious before his flight back to New York later that evening.
Stemming from his own experience grappling with self-doubt and career tumult, he wrote The Revisionist nearly 10 years ago and starred as the self-involved novelist, David, in the 2013 world premiere at New York’s Cherry Lane Theatre. Vanessa Redgrave played Marie, his second cousin, a holocaust survivor.
- 4/7/2016
- by Jordan Riefe
- The Guardian - Film News
If you like a gripping drama, you will want to catch Tony nominee Michael Cumpsty Boardwalk Empire,' End of the Rainbow and Michael Crane in The Body of an American, now playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre, directed by Obie winner Jo Bonney Father Comes Home from the Wars..., Lost Girls and presented by Primary Stages and Rhoda R. Herrick, in association with Hartford Stage. Winner of the 2014 Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play and the Inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Award shared with Tony-winner All The Way. The Body of an American tells the true story of an extraordinary friendship as two men, a war photojournalist and playwright, journey from some of the most dangerous places on earth to the depths of the human soul. Winning rave reviews for its previous productions in London and elsewhere, The Body of an American by Guggenheim Fellow Dan O'Brien is...
- 3/9/2016
- by TJ Fitzgerald
- BroadwayWorld.com
After making their mark on national television by pranking people with “Too Much Tuna” on three seasons of Kroll Show, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney’s Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland are trying to revolutionize (Off) Broadway shows with their 70-minute production of Oh, Hello. The duo are the stars of the completely sold-out run at the historic Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan, which opened on December 1 and runs through December 20. Thus far, at the end of the performance, the characters hold a press conference during which the audience can ask questions. Tuesday afternoon, they held an actual press conference full of actual journalists eager to find out how these eccentric Upper West Siders, who describe themselves as “Kind of like the Coen brothers except even less approachable,” put this two-man show together. Below, find a few choice answers from the press conference. There’s no word yet...
- 12/8/2015
- by Katla McGlynn
- Vulture
For some of us who grew up in white-bread America, being homecoming king is an embarrassment worse than Od-ing on Clearasil. Almost as bad is going to your high school prom. For the record, I didn’t go to my high school prom, and hadn’t thought about it until I saw “Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King,” which opened Friday at Off Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre. Why would a 30-year-old Indian-American Muslim like Hasan Minhaj, a correspondent on “The Daily Show,” obsess about a high school dance more than a decade after the fact? That fixation is the subject of his one-man show,...
- 10/24/2015
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Nick Kroll announced Thursday that he and John Mulaney are working on an Off-Broadway, Oh, Hello–inspired show. The production reunites the comedians’ Gil Faizon (Kroll) and George St. Geegland (Mulaney) characters — nonpareil caricatures of Upper West Side senior-citizen wannabe polymaths — for what will likely be a couple hours of their irreverent prankster antics at New York's Cherry Lane Theatre. According to Kroll, Faizon and St. Geegland have penned a very real play of their own and wish to share it. If this all sounds kind of meta and absurd, that's because it is — just like what used to happen with these two on Kroll Show: To promote the project(s), which run(s) the first twenty days of December, the duo(s) made a hilariously pitch-perfect website to explain everything: Fresh off the success of their hit prank show “Too Much Tuna,” these two Alan Alda–obsessed Upper...
- 10/23/2015
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
Catch The Butcher - a new play by Adam Seidel about what happens when a single woman sets off to find the serial killer of other single women - is being given its Off-Broadway premiere this fall when Cherry Lane Theatre 38 Commerce St. kicks off its 92nd anniversary season with the production, directed by Valentina Fratti. Previews begin tonight, September 23, for an opening night on September 29, 2015.
- 9/23/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Full casting has been announced for Laugh It Up, Stare It Down, a new play written by Alan Hruska The Man on Her Mind, New House under Construction, Reunion and directed by Chris Eigeman known as a filmmaker for Turn The River and as an actor for roles in television's Gilmore Girls and the films Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco. Laugh It Up, Stare It Down will premiere at The Cherry Lane Theatre 38 Commerce Street beginning a limited engagement on August 26th with opening night set for September 9th.
- 8/18/2015
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
Colin Quinn The New York Story a new comedy written by and starring Colin Quinn, based on his book The Coloring Book Grand Central Publishing and directed by Jerry Seinfeld will play The Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street beginning tonight,July 9th, with the official opening scheduled for July 23rd. Colin Quinn The New York Story, is presented by Brian Stern, Mike Lavoie and Mike Berkowitzand will play a limited engagement through August 16th.
- 7/9/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Returning to the New York stage this summer following successful runs of Colin Quinn Unconstitutional and the HBO-transferred Long Story Short, the slouchy satirist will bring his new show, Colin Quinn The New York Story, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, to the modest Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. In an act of retro daring, Quinn will offer a $10 discount on tickets to performances from July 9 until the July 23 opening — a tradition of cut-rate previews that has…...
- 6/11/2015
- Deadline TV
The award-winning, nationally-renowned Ma-Yi Theater Company – one of the country’s leading producers of new works for the stage by Asian-American writers – will continue its 2014-15 season this spring with the world premiere of Soldier X by Rehana Lew Mirza, with preview performances set to begin March 24 prior to an official opening night on March 31 at Here (145 Sixth Avenue, enter on Dominick Street, one block south of Spring) in NYC. Soldier X is directed by Lucie Tiberghien.
Soldier X follows a young biracial social worker, Monica, who falls for a returning veteran, Jay, and the subsequent love triangle that ensues when he decides he is in love with his fallen buddy’s Muslim sister. The play tallies the emotional scars inflicted on our young men and women returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. How exactly do you rejoin a society that remains as conflicted about its wars as it is...
Soldier X follows a young biracial social worker, Monica, who falls for a returning veteran, Jay, and the subsequent love triangle that ensues when he decides he is in love with his fallen buddy’s Muslim sister. The play tallies the emotional scars inflicted on our young men and women returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. How exactly do you rejoin a society that remains as conflicted about its wars as it is...
- 3/13/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Vh Theatrical Development Foundation presents the Off-Broadway premiere of The Brightness Of Heaven, a new play by acclaimed author Laura Pedersen, directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser. The Brightness Of Heaven will be performed through Sunday, December 14th at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre 38 Commerce Street, Manhattan. The Press Opening is Sunday, October 26th, 2014. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...
- 12/3/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
The legendary Cherry Lane Theatre - which this year will celebrate its 90th anniversary as one of the nation's most revered institutions for its commitment to producing new works for the stage - will begin its 90th season with the world-premiere of Lisa Ramirez's play To The Bone directed by Lisa Peterson, set to commence previews September 9 prior to an official opening night September 17 at Cherry Lane Theatre 38 Commerce St. in Greenwich Village, it has been announced by Angelina Fiordellisi, the company's Founding Artistic Director. The production runs through October 4.
- 10/6/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
From being part of a panel on television to writing and starring in a solo play, Joy Behar is switching it up. She'll debut her stage show Me, My Mouth and I in New York City in November. The off-Broadway show will reside at the Cherry Lane Theatre, with previews set to begin Nov. 6, before officially opening on Nov. 23. The production will play a limited seven-week engagement through Dec. 21. Watch more Joy Behar Leaves 'The View': Her Best Moments The former co-host of The View has been performing workshop productions of Me, My Mouth and I at
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- 10/1/2014
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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