 In 2006, the theater was honored with a Village Award by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.Productions staged at the Cherry Lane include "The Rimers of Eldritch," Claudia Shear's "Blown Sideways Through Life," "Fortune's Fool" with Alan Bates and Frank Langella, "The Sum of Us" with Tony Goldwyn, the Richard Maltby, Jr./David Shire musical "Closer Than Ever," Sam Shepard's "True West," Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane," Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story," John-Michael Tebelak's and Stephen Schwartz's "Godspell," Paul Osborn's "Morning's at Seven," Laura Pedersen's "The Brightness of Heaven" (later changed to "For Heaven's Sake!