La MaMa’s First Home Reopens, 5 years and $25 million Later

New York Theater: It was the sort of remark that might have shocked people at any other ribbon-cutting ceremony, but this was the reopening yesterday of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club’s first home, a four-story building at 74 East 4th Street constructed in 1873, and bought by the theater’s founder Ellen Stewart in the 1960s — now refurbished at a cost of $25 million.