Historic Off-Broadway Theater to End Its Legendary Run 3.69K Richard Lawson 12/22/10 10:55AM Filed to: sad things sad things stage the theatre Cherry lane New York Business The Cherry Lane Theater, once the stomping grounds of writers like O'Neill, Odets, and Beckett, is shutting down. The owner bemoans the current theater need to "hav[e] a film star in...productions... I don't want to do theater like that."