Hawke, Stiles, et al. Set for ODD COUPLE Reading, 1/9

According to Telecharge.com, Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Billy Crudup, Wallace Shawn, Louie CK, Alessandra Nivola, Mario Cantone, Emily Mortimer and Jonathan Marc Sherman are set to star in a reading of THE ODD COUPLE at Cherry Lane Theatre.  The event will benefit PS 3 and will take place on January 9 at 7 PM.

The Odd Couple is a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing and slovenly. In the original play these were male; Simon also made a version for a pair of female roommates, called The Female Odd Couple.

Situated in a landmark building in Greenwich Village, Cherry Lane Theatre serves as a vital lab for the development of new American works and a home for groundbreaking productions of both new and classic theater of the highest caliber. As New York's longest continuously running Off-Broadway theatre, Cherry Lane has helped to define American drama, fostering fresh, daring, and relevant theater for 85 years. Cherry Lane considers the playwright central to the dramatic event and the text the primary source of theatrical innovation and excellence.

Cherry Lane's mission is inextricably linked to the history of this American original. In 1924, the visionary poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and a group of artists converted an early 19th Century industrial building into a theater they called Cherry Lane Playhouse. Over the subsequent nine decades, it has been the site for some of the most courageous experiments in the chronicles of the American stage. The Living Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd, and Downtown Theater movement all took root at the lively Playhouse; and Cherry Lane has proven fertile ground for most of the gifted writers of the 20th century, including: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Clifford Odets, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Joe Orton, and David Mamet.