History

Pre-1950s

Saturday Night

1924

by Richard Fresnell

The first theatrical presentation at the Cherry Lane Playhouse.

The Man Who Ate Popomack

1924

by W. J. Turner
directed by Reginald Travers

The Way of the World

1924

by William Congreve
produced by the Cherry Lane Players Inc.
with Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Wild Birds

1925

by Dan Totheroh
with Donald Duff and Mildred MacLeod

Loggerheads

1925

by Ralph Cullinan
produced by Whitford Kane and Barry Macollum

Polly

1925

by John Gay

The Moon is a Gong

1926

by John Dos Passos
directed by Edward Massey
produced by Juliet Barrett Rublee
designed by Mordecai Gorelik
with Ben Osipow, William Challee and Helen Chandler

Dark Mirror

1926

by Irving Stone
directed by Adele Gutman Nathan
produced by the Lennox Hill Players
with Lillian Azair, Syd Brenner and A.J. Field

Stigma

1927

by Dorothy Manley and Donald Duff
with Donald Duff, Edmond Rickett and Doralyn Spence

The Belt

1927

by Paul Sifton
directed by Edward Massey
with Franchot Tone, Benjamin Osipow and Jane Barry

The Centuries

1927

by Em Jo Basshe
with Franchot Tone, Lawrence Bolton and Jane Barry

The International

1928

by J.H. Lawson
directed by J.H. Lawson
with George Price, Herbert Bergman, Miriam Gumble and Franchot Tone

Hoboken Blues

1928

book by Michael Gold
directed by Edward Massey
with Lawrence Bolton, Mona Lewis, Murray Franklin and Sheba Strunsky

A Trip to Scarborough

1928

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
directed by Bushnell Cheney
produced by The Jitney Players
with Bushnell Cheney, Alice B. Keating and William Lovejoy

The Waltz of the Dogs

1928

by L. Andreyev
directed and Produced by Celia Avramo

The Subway

1929

by Elmer Rice
directed by Adele Gutman Nathan
produced by the Lennox Hill Players
with Peter Gwyn, Jane Hamilton and Harry J. Marks

The Dragon

1929

by Lady Augusta Gregory
directed by David Elliot
produced by The Jitney Players
with Bushnell Cheney, Alice B. Keating and William Lovejoy

The Vegetable

1929

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
directed by Lee Strasberg
produced by the Lennox Hill Players
with Syn Brenner, Harry J. Marks and Eve Saxer

Scenes and Moods - (an evening of theatre and dance)

1929

with Catherine Cale and Ruth Parks

The Beast Tamer

1932

by Leah Medisca
with Charles Boehme, Guerita Donnelly, Neryda Montez, Francis Stone, Mary Martin McCarthy, Mimosa Fejos, Richard Reeves, Joseph Gallo, Mary Shaw, Ann Allen, Marie Stark, Lou Brignoli, Isabelle Prince, Rose Clayman, Ray Bellows, Sol Burrows, Harry Wilson, and David Schreiber

Man Crazy

1933

by Stephen Sanford

Mystery Theatre with Paul Gilmore

Trojan Women

1934

by Euripides

A Successful Calamity

1934

nothing

The Phantom

1935

by Dion Boucicault

Mystery Theatre with Paul Gilmore

Murdered Alive

1935

by Wilbur Braun

Mystery Theatre with Paul Gilmore

Dracula

1936

by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston
directed by Paul Gilmore
with Paul and Virginia Gilmore, Sonya Simetsky, Reita Harowitz, Ann Paul, Mable Hill,
Mary Elizabeth Honaghan, Emily Julian, Delmar Neutzman, Stanley Blum, Stanley La Butus, Sydney Prevore, Jerry Gallon, Marvin Ware, Ken Michell, Charlotte Luck, Charlotte Charague, Eleanor Eaton, Pierre Vekony, Light Bourne and Robert Loynaz

The Bishop Misbehaves

1937

by Frederick Jackson
with Virginia and Paul Gilmore

Reserve for Murder