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You Got Older

February 2025—April 2026
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A Play by Clare Barron. Directed by Anne Kauffman. Starring Alia Shawkat.

After losing both her job and her boyfriend, an unmoored and unsettled Mae (Alia Shawkat) returns to her small Washington hometown to take care of her ailing father. When she meets a mysterious stranger, she has the startling realization that maybe the intimacy she’s been craving is easier with the unknown, rather than with her own family. Blending reality and fantasy, You Got Older reunites Obie Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron with Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee Anne Kauffman for this tender and darkly comic play about family, illness, and cowboys — and how to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you.

Scenic Designer Arnulfo Maldonado

Costume Designer Ásta Bennie Hostetter

Lighting Designer Isabella Byrd

Sound Designer & Original Composition Daniel Kluger

Casting Director Taylor Williams

Shifters

July—August, 2026

Coming July 2026.

A Play by Benedict Lombe. Directed by Lynette Linton. Starring Heather Agyepong and Daniel Ezra.

Cherry Lane Theatre is proud to announce the North American premiere of SHIFTERS, the critically acclaimed, intoxicating, and fierce new romance by Olivier Award-nominated writer Benedict Lombe, and directed by BAFTA nominated and Evening Standard Theatre award-winner Lynette Linton.

Following a sold-out run at the Bush Theatre and in London’s West End, this electrifying production will make its highly anticipated North American debut at Cherry Lane Theatre, with previews beginning July 6th and an official opening set on July 15th, running through August 30th, 2026.

Tickets on sale Monday, May 11th at 9am.

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You Got Older

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A Play by Clare Barron. Directed by Anne Kauffman. Starring Alia Shawkat.

After losing both her job and her boyfriend, an unmoored and unsettled Mae (Alia Shawkat) returns to her small Washington hometown to take care of her ailing father. When she meets a mysterious stranger, she has the startling realization that maybe the intimacy she’s been craving is easier with the unknown, rather than with her own family. Blending reality and fantasy, You Got Older reunites Obie Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron with Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee Anne Kauffman for this tender and darkly comic play about family, illness, and cowboys — and how to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you.

Scenic Designer Arnulfo Maldonado

Costume Designer Ásta Bennie Hostetter

Lighting Designer Isabella Byrd

Sound Designer & Original Composition Daniel Kluger

Casting Director Taylor Williams

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Founded in 1923, Cherry Lane Theatre is NY’s oldest Off-Broadway Theater and has come to be known as “The Birthplace of Off-Broadway.”

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