The American Dream and The Sandbox
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 1, 2008
Closed May 3, 2008
Opened Apr 1, 2008
Closed May 3, 2008
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Cherry Lane Theatre welcomes back Edward Albee with The American Dream and The Sandbox, which are billed together as an evening of one-acts.
The New Yorker hailed The American Dream as "unique ... brilliant ... a comic nightmare, fantasy of the highest order." The story of one of America's most dysfunctional families, it is a ferocious, uproarious attack on the substitution of artificial values for real values -- a startling tale of murder and morality that rocks middle-class ethics to its complacent foundations. The American Dream was originally produced at Cherry Lane Theatre in 1961 by Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder.
The Sandbox was originally produced at Cherry Lane Theatre in 1962 in a collaboration between producers Richard Barr, Clinton Wilder and playwright Edward Albee.
Mr. Albee directs the productions. The Cherry Lane also offers post-performance forums and talkbacks for Dream/Sandbox, in order to give audiences the once-in-a-lifetime experience of a dialogue with one of America's most venerated voices in the theatre.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Cherry Lane Theatre
38 Commerce St
New York, NY 10014
This tiny theater is located in the West Village on a charming residential street. The playhouse was founded in 1924 by the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. The best seats are located behind Row H, especially Row J, seats 2-10.
38 Commerce St
New York, NY 10014
This tiny theater is located in the West Village on a charming residential street. The playhouse was founded in 1924 by the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. The best seats are located behind Row H, especially Row J, seats 2-10.
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Watching Edward Albee's dark comedies The American Dream and The Sandbox, now at the Cherry Lane Theatre, can't be the same today as coming up against them when they were written almost 50 years ago. Since they first jolted audiences into sitting up and taking notice, they've influenced too many subsequent plays, just as they were influenced by the Absurdist playwrights preceding them in the late 40's and 50's. But though they've lost a sizable chunk of their shock value, these one-acts still offer their own rewards especially as directed by the hardly mellower octogenarian playwright himself -- at the same theatre where The American Dream fist bowed.
That they now possess a pat[...]