Black Cherry Puppet Theater
DATE: December 29, 2011
TIME: 1:30 PM
LOCATION: 1115 Hollins St.,
Baltimore, MD 21223

Admission: $5.00 kids, $7.00 adults
cheaper than a movie

First up is The Hare in the Moon, a folktale from Korea, by Jeanine Padget.
Next C. Ryan Patterson and Rachel Valsing present Millions of Cats!,
a shadow show peopled by the fantastical characters and familiar streetscapes of Charm City.
And rounding out the afternoon is Ruby Creek by David Greenfieldboyce,
a cautionary fairy tale with marionettes.

So come on out for a very special afternoon
 at Black Cherry.

Directions to our theater

Events at Black Cherry Puppet Theater are funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council,
the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, the Friends of Black Cherry, Inc.,
and contributions from folks like you.

 

Black Cherry Puppet Theater
Presents!
Positive Peers POLAR PLAYHOUSE 
with The Creepers!

Directions to our theater

TWO SHOWS! ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Shows at 7pm & 9:30 pm 
Friday, December 9th, 2011
doors open 1/2 hour before each show! $7! 

Positive peers is a friendship initiated art collective
featuring talented artist from different genres!
Get ready for a fun-filled wintery evening show! 
"Polar Playhouse" will feature music, puppets, dancing,
storytelling,audience participation,
sing-a-longs, costumes, and most of all, love! 

Featuring musical guests: The Creepers!

Positive Peers:
Jake Logan 
Kevin Sherry
Emily Cumberland
Hannah Logan
Jordan Hudkins
Nicole Snead
Bryan Minnich
Shelbi Maietta
Katie D'Angelo
Gregory Berry

 

 

October 23 at 1:00 & 3:30
Black Cherry Puppet Theater presents
" Underground Railroad, Not A Subway"
by Schroeder Cherry and His Puppets.

A mix of hand, rod and poster puppets tell the story of an African American boy
who escapes slavery and runs North. Will he make it?
A Free Fall Baltimore event!
Come to Black Cherry for 2 shows and Puppet Making from 1:30 until 3:30.
This is the last of three Puppets in the Garden, free puppet shows and workshops.
IT'S ALL FREE!!! Bring a picnic lunch.
Enjoy a show in our beautiful garden and make a puppet to take home.
No reservations needed.

 

Saturday, October 15, 2011
Black Cherry's Puppet Slamwich! series of puppetry and performances
for grown-ups returns for a whole new season.

TWO SHOWS!! 7pm and 9:30pm
at Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins St., Baltimore MD 21223.

Tickets are $7, and will be available soon at brownpapertickets.com
(event name: Puppet Slamwich!)
Tickets will also be sold at the door, thirty minutes before each show.
Seating is general admission and limited.
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October’s Puppet Slamwich is a Croque Monsieur,
a sumptuous serving of the deliciously familiar and
the delectably foreign and unknown!!!

Baltimore’s Alexander D’Agostino debuts Horseboy,
a mystical tale about spirit creatures on a quest.

C. Ryan Patterson, Rachel Valsing and Mary Pulcinella of Porch Puppets
present their new shadow puppet show Millions of Cats! peopled by
the fantastical characters and familiar streetscapes of Charm City.

The Grand Dame of the Cranky, DC’s Marianne Ross presents The Medicine Show,
the story of Dr Stonestreet, and a Slightly Jaundiced History of Medicine.

Philly’s Geppetta performs The Light Bearer's Nightmare, a segment of her
poetic puppet cabaret Beware Disembodied Phenomenas! in which a
traveler gets wrapped up in a chilling mystery of a murdered cephalapod.

Strange encounters on the road also figure into David Greenfieldboyce’s
Ruby Creek, a cautionary fairy tale with marionettes.

Surreal supplants the strange in The Pelican Brief, written by
Josh Van Horne and directed by Chuck Green of BROS.
A hit at the 10-minute Play Festival,
this drama revolves around a fancy coconut put on trial for philanthropy.
Welcome to the courtroom of the absurd.
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Don't miss this awesome puppet filled evening! Remember its one night only,
but you have two chances to catch it (7pm or 9:30)!
Facebook event page HERE

*supported in part by The Puppet Slam Network!

 

Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 7pm and 9:30pm at Black Cherry Puppet Theater. Directions to our theater Puppet Slamwich! returns with a new set of shows. The series, supported in part by The Puppet Slam Network.  Tickets are $7, and will be available at brownpapertickets.com (event name: Puppet Slamwich!) Tickets will also be sold at the door, thirty minutes before each show. Seating is general admission and limited.    June’s Puppet Slamwich delivers up a succulent stack of folksy performances!  Baltimore’s Kathy Fahey premiers her latest shadow puppet show “Elizabeth Whitmore” on the old time cranky with live accompaniment! Kevin Sherry serves up new tales from “Sherrywood Forest”, full of mischief and mayhem. Mika Eubanks presents variations on an ancient trickster tale, while sheriffs and outlaws duel in Miranda Pfeiffer’s animation, “Food for the Worms”. Jen Liu’s ukulele tribute to American popular tune “Frankie and Johnny” makes clear why hell hath no fury like a puppet scorned! Puppet Slamwich! at Black Cherry Puppet Theater celebrates puppetry for adult audiences in all of its forms, from traditional to experimental, as well as related genres, such as vaudeville, cabaret, toy and object theater. Puppet Slamwich! hopes to introduce audiences to a broad array of puppetry, welcoming emerging and established artists from the Mid-Atlantic Region and beyond.     Saturday May 21st 8-10:00pm Join Black Cherry in welcoming back RPM Puppet Conspiracy as they tour their brand spankin' new show: The Standard Model Fallacious Physics and Scientific Half-Truths! Alliances and Betrayals! The Latest Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons! In a world where Good battles Evil, and where stimulated emissions of photons blur the lines between the two, questions are raised! For instance: Why are there apparent violations of the symmetry between matter and antimatter? What was the nature of the quark-gluon plasma in the early universe? And where are our protagonist's eyeglasses?! Critics exclaim: “The best puppet show about particle accelerators in light years! RPM Puppet Conspiracy is a shining beacon in a universe of Dark Matter!” Don't miss this moving exploration of friendship, intergalactic warfare, and the incredible longevity of packaged baked goods. *** We welcome Philly-based sci-fi performance band iT iS iNC to open up the night with an alienoid set! **** Coming May 22 2pm Afternoon performance LOCATION: 1115 Hollins St., Baltimore, MD 21223 Admission: $5.00 kids, $7.00 adults Vegetable Party one show only  at Black Cherry Puppet Theater  DATE: May 15, 2011 TIME: 2:00 PM LOCATION: 1115 Hollins St., Baltimore, MD 21223 Admission: $5.00 kids, $7.00 adults Vegetable Party: a celebration of healthy food Vegetable Party is a half hour of musical fun with food. The show follows two clowns making a stew, while an evil junk-food genius tries to ruin their plans. With slapstick inspired by vaudeville and the classic era of cartoons, this show celebrates the glories of food. To watch Vegetable Party is to see a live, interactive, classic cartoon. It teaches children the important lessons of healthy food through comedy, songs, and games. It stimulates all of their senses to fuse the message of eating healthy for a lasting effect.

Family Discount Coupon  $20   A day out with the kids just got cheaper at Black Cherry Puppet Theater! Two adults and two kids get in for twenty bucks! Additional kids are $5, adults are $7. So, print, cut this baby out, and bring it with you! Or just make your own coupon. The same deal holds!   This offer is good only for family shows.   Events at Black Cherry Puppet Theater are funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Puppet Slam Network, the Friends of Black Cherry, Inc., and contributions from folks like you.

Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 7pm and 9:30pm. 

The series, supported in part by The Puppet Slam Network, will be held at
Black Cherry Puppet Theater,
1115 Hollins St., Baltimore MD 21223. 
Tickets are $7, and will be available at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162386
(event name: Puppet Slamwich!)
Tickets will also be sold at the door,
thirty minutes before each show.
Seating is general admission and limited. 
 
March’s Puppet Slamwich is a Mufuletta,
a steaming savory delight so stuffed with mysterious goodness that it might just knock you out!

  Kevin Sherry of Baltimore and Squidfire fame premiers his new show “Levels”,
a love story between three puppeteers told on 4 levels of reality with a live band.

Eric Brooks and Christopher Hudert present two shorts, "Goldileaves and the Free Beer?"  
about a potted plant pining for floral companionship and “The Gift” a bit of classic hand and glove puppet myth.
 
Jeanine Padgett and Lisa Krause debut "The Dance of the Devil Dolls,” a dark and humorous marionette tale about the black arts.

Z Smith and Anna Fitzgerald, scene stealing comic troubadours, return as "Country Diva Dorleen and her Cowboy Puppet",
singing songs of love and heartbreak! Psychedelic drag performer,

Sam Shea rounds out the night with his new act “Only Girl In The World,” brimming with pop music,
choreographed dance, transformable stories, maternal technology.

Black Cherry Puppet Theater

1115 Hollins Street Baltimore, Maryland 21223 (410) 752-7272