Curb your enthusiasm ... it’s only the Cherry Lane Theatre.

“Out of the small edifice streamed a large succession of plays by a decades-spanning parade of then-rising writers whose names have lent brilliance and distinction to the American and international literary and theatrical treasuries, from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dos Passos, and Elmer Rice in the 20s, to O’Neill, O’Casey, Odets, Auden, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Picasso, and William Saroyan in the 40s and 50s, to Beckett, Albee, Pinter, Ionesco, and LeRoi Jones in the 60s, to Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Joe Orton, and Mamet in the 70s and 80s. The Playhouse productions featured an equally illustrious group of actors and directors, including John Malkovich, Barbra Streisand, Geraldine Fitzgerald, James Earl Jones, Ruby Dee, Gene Hackman, Bea Arthur (making her stage debut), Fritz Weaver, Judith Malina, Burl Ives, Colleen Dewhurst, Harvey Keitel, Cicely Tyson, Jerry Stiller, James Coco, Dolores Sutton, Shami Chaikin, James Broderick, Lee Strasberg, Roger Bart, Francot Tone, Roscoe Lee Browne, Alan Schneider, Claudia Shear, Anne Revere, Theodore Bikel, Peter Falk, Estelle Parsons, Judd Hirsch, Judith Ivey, Robert Wilson,Maxwell Caulfield, Adolf Green and Betty Comden, Alvin Epstein, Rue McClanahan, Shirley Knight, John Tillinger, Lewis Black, Sudie Bond, Tom Bosley (who previously had worked in the theater’s box office), Frances Sternhagen, Roy Scheider, James Noble, Geraldine Page, Mark Setlock, Gene Saks, Bob Dylan, F. Murray Abraham, Kiki & Herb, Jo Ann Worley, Joan Micklin Silver, John Rando, Gary Sinise, Vincent Gardenia, Micki Grant, Tony Musante, Rainn Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Kim Stanley, Frank Langella, Tyne Daly, John Epperson, Nancy Marchand, Robert Loggia, Dennis Quaid, Joan Cusack, and Joseph Chaikin.”

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