80 Saint Marks Place has been a successful site for entertainment from the height of the Jazz age to the present. There have been only a few people who have shaped this institution, so there has been a gentle layering of changes. Today one can see elements of the "speakeasy", and the 1960s Off-Broadway theater blended together with a few changes made by the long term tenant, the Pearl Theatre Company, and now the cafe added to help keep theater vibrantly present in the East Village.