Following a two-year renovation, the Cherry Lane Theatre is getting ready to reopen its doors. The Off-Broadway theatre, located at 38 Commerce Street in New York City's Greenwich Village, was acquired by 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.

The theatre will reopen with a week of events September 8–14. The "Red Door Reopening" week includes theatre, comedy, music, and film programming. The first announced event will be Sundays with Sofia, a film screening series hosted by director Sofia Coppola that will occur throughout the year, where the auteur will screen a film that has particular meaning to her, with a discussion after. Sundays with Sofia will kick off September 14 with a screening of Adrian Lyne’s FOXES, followed by a neighborhood block party.

In the fall, at dates to be announced, will be a five-week run of Natalie Palamides' Weer, a one-woman show where she plays both halves of a romantic couple.

The Cherry Lane'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.

The Cherry Lane Theatre is considered the oldest continuously running Off-Broadway theatre in NYC, having been operating since 1923. It's hosted works from writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Lorraine Hansberry, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee, Amiri Baraka, Sam Shepard, and Lanford Wilson.

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 Stranger Things: The First Shadow, while Universal is the producer on Death Becomes Her.

Visit CherryLaneTheatre.org.