BLACK CHERRY PUPPET THEATER Presents: PUPPET SLAMWICH 3! Mufuletta Edition!

BLACK CHERRY PUPPET THEATER Presents: PUPPET SLAMWICH!
A night of Puppetry and Performance for Grown-ups!
SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2011
@ Black Cherry Puppet Theater in SoWeBo
1115 Hollins Street, Batltimore MD 21223

Shows at 7PM AND 9:30PM!! That’s right, TWO SHOWS!
Doors open ½ hour before each show time. Tix $7

PRE-SALE Tickets are available NOW online at Brown Paper Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162386
(seating is general admission and limited…so please arrive early!)
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March’s Puppet Slamwich is a Mufuletta, a steaming savory delight so stuffed with mysterious goodness that it might just knock you out!

WHO and What will I be witnessing at this awesome Slamwich you ask? Here’s the run down:

Baltimore’s Kevin Sherry, of Squidfire fame, premieres his new show “Levels”, a love story between three puppeteers told on 4 levels of reality with a live band!

Jeanine Padgett and Lisa Krause debuting "The Dance of the Devil Dolls,” dark and humorous marionette tale about the black arts, inspired by excerpts from old radio shows.

Scene stealing comic troubadours Pepito the Clown (Z Smith) and Paul (Anna Fitzgerald) return as Country Diva and Cowboy Puppet, singing songs of love and Heartbreak!

Psychedelic drag performer, Sam Shea channels his new act “Only Girl In The World,” brimming with pop music, choreographed dance, transformable stories, maternal technology, glamour and flamboyant tidal waves!

Joining us from Richmond, VA, Christopher Hudert of Applause Unlimited presents “The Gift” a poetic story of puppet creation stripping away the complex to explore the simple ball and glove, creation and love!

And the house plants let loose in “Goldileaves and the Three Beers” by D.C.’s Eric Brooks and Christopher Hudert!

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Black Cherry is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive; Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts; and The Friends of Black Cherry, Inc.

Puppet Slamwich! @ Black Cherry Puppet Theatre

Puppet Slamwich!
Thursday, October 21
7:30pm
$7
Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins Street
(thats in SoWeBo folks, right by the Hollins Market, and now easily accessible by the Charm City Circulator's Orange line!)

Black Cherry is proud to premier the very first show in our new puppet slam series, "Puppet Slamwich" on THURSDAY, October 21, 2010. ONE NIGHT ONLY! Do not miss this! Seriously. Oh, and this event is for grown-ups, so leave the kids at home!

Tickets are $7, and will be available at the door starting at
7:30pm. Seating is general admission and limited. The show starts at 8pm. Don't be late!

The first in the series, "Puppet Slamwich: Pulled Pork edition" features a variety of local and nationally touring performers whose work is infused with social commentary and political satire! Just what you need to liven up a Thursday night!


**Former Bread and Puppet company members, Danny McNamara and Diana Sette introduce their newly founded Possibilitarian Puppet Theatre to Baltimore. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, the duo will premier their “Dumb Show History of Humanity in 8 Pictures" and infuse the night with the raucous, jouyful sounds of their Wild Music Marching Ensemble!

**Hoesy Corona, Baltimore’s mercurial performance artist presents his poetic yet hard-hitting “Mexican Quick Change" about the rise of anti-Mexican sentiment in the United States.

**Liz Donadio, Erin Gleeson, and Kevin Blackistone perform in "Jeremiah 8:7", a play by Baltimore sweetheart Justin Durel with amazing puppets by Donna Sellinger of Missoula Oblongata. Based on the passage from the bible: "Even the stork knows her appointed time; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the laws of their coming; but my people know not the laws of the Lord”

**Dave Bailey, from Austin, Texas and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, returns with RPM Puppet Conspiracy for and encore performance of “The Only Good Corporation is an Undead Corporation.” There will be Zombies!!

Holy Moly, that is an amazing amount of puppet goodness for just $7. Don't miss the chance to see these fantastic out-of-town performers traveling through Baltimore (and those great ones who we are proud to call our own)!!

Puppet Slamwich is supported in part by a grant from The Puppet Slam Network! Thanks!

COLLECTED DISORDERS @ Black Cherry Puppet Theatre

The Tchotchke Wives' COLLECTED DISORDERS
with A Funny Clown and the music of Tommy Tucker
April 24 THIS SATURDAY!!!
8 pm and again at 10 pm! THAT'S RIGHT, 2 SHOWS!!!
$5-10 sliding scale
Black Cherry Puppet Theater, 1115 Hollins St., Baltimore MD 21223


Black Cherry is proud to host the premiere of Collective Disorders, a new variety show about the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. TheTchotchke Wives (Owen Brightman and Maggie Burke) will bring "puppets, kitsch, and cabaret" to our stage with the express purpose of addressing "the disorders of Americana and the what-have-yous we've all got on our mental mantels."

In addition, we welcome A Funny Clown (Josh Kelberman of Wham City), who is really very funny, and the country music of Tommy Tucker to round out the evening. A variety show really full of variety! Come out to one of our two shows THIS SATURDAY!!! We've got one at 8 pm and another at 10 pm! As usual, beer and wine will be for sale! Admission is on a $5-10 sliding scale, and seating is limited, so get here early!

And don't forget to go to Zella's Pizzeria, right down the street from us, or Baltimore Pho, right across the street from us, before or after the show!

Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21223
410-752-7272

The Frog Prince and Jack and the Beanstalk @ the Black Cherry Puppet Theater

Wondering what to do with your kids between Christmas and New Years? Bring them to Black Cherry! Come celebrate the close of a phenomenal year with something old and something new! Starting with the marionette classic "The Frog Prince!" on Monday and then on Wednesday "Jack and the Beanstalk".

Monday, December 28, 2009
THE FROG PRINCE
Doors at noon, show at 1 pm
$5

Wednesday, December 30, 2009
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
Doors at noon, show at 1 pm
$5


There will be bags of popcorn for sale (only a quarter), mulled cider, and other treats. And tickets are only 5 bucks!

It will be FUUUUNNNNNN!

Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins St. Baltimore MD 21223

Maestro Sensation Presents: MS3 The Resurrection! THIS WEEKEND!

Please join us this weekend for the third installment of the Maestro Sensational trilogy!!! Heartstrings will be tugged, demons will be purged, and inner lights will be lit -- all in one action-packed hour and a half of puppets and music!

Witness the rebirth of vaudeville with host and giant-sock extraordinaire Maestro Sensational and his loyal ragtag gang of Sockophants! Your charming host will present a veritable uprising of comic bits and slapstick revival. See him unveil the talents of Baltimore's paradigms of puppetry! Enliven your heart with the toe-tapping tunes of host-band Walker and Jay!

Guest performers include Owen Brightman, Kevin Sherry (of Squidfire fame), April Wood, Justin Lucas, and Black Cherry Puppet Theater's own Michael Lamason.

By popular demand, we have added a Friday evening show (three shows total) and are offering advanced ticket purchase through Brownpapertickets.com.
The Dates and Times and Prices:
Friday, May 1st - doors at 8, show at 8:30
Saturday, May 2nd - doors at 8, show at 8:30
Saturday, May 2nd - doors at 10, show at 10:30

Tickets are $5, with an additional $1.12 charge online.
Shows will start promptly!!!

To Purchase advanced tickets, click here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/63263

The shows all happen at:
Black Cherry Puppet Theater
1115 Hollins St.
Baltimore, MD 21223
410-752-7272
Website: blackcherry.org

The Point! A Puppet Musical

Come out this weekend out check out the Point!
Directed by Ellen Nielson
Musical Direction by Dan Breen



The Point! A Puppet Musical
March 20th and 21st
8pm
$5
5th floor of the H&H

Maestro Sensational Presents: Shrunken Love

Saturday February 14, 2009
Doors open 8pm
Show starts @ 8:30
at Black Cherry Puppet Theater in SOWEBO
1115 Hollins Street Baltimore, MD 21223 (directions at blackcherry.org)
Only $5!!

Join us for an evening of puppet acts, songs, romance and more! For Grown-ups! Hosted by the biggest sock in show business, Maestro Sensational! Maestro and his chorus of feisty sockophants will perform tender bits of comedy sure to warm your heart on the cold winter night of Valentine's day. House band Walker & Jay provide tunes and soundtrack for the evening of puppet performances by various Baltimore artists including Matt Gemmel and Liz Ensz, Sean Blue, Dawn Swartz, Dana Schloss and more!

Seating is limited, so get there early. No date required! Tell your friends!

Maestro Sensational Presents: MUCHO LAUNDRY!

This Saturday night come out to SoWeBo for an entertaining early evening of Puppet Acts and Songs for Grown-ups!! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll fall in love with a giant sock puppet named Maestro and his charming back up singers! House band Walker and Jay will provide the tunes! Puppets will act, sing and maybe do other things!

When: Saturday December 6th, doors open at 8pm, show to start @ 8:30pm (Be aware that seating is limited, first come first serve! Don't be late!)

Where: Black Cherry Puppet Theater-- 1115 Hollins Street Baltimore, MD 21223

How Much: ONLY $5 !!

Why: Really? How could you pass this up? Ben and Bob of Show Beast fame! A Ventriloquist! Music! Space Ghost! Socks! and oh so much more!

Hanna-Barbera Play Festival @ The Annex Theater

The Annex Theater crew, including Tim Paggi, Evan Moritz, Kaitlin Murphy and Grace Bedwell, never ceases to amaze , improve and present creative ideas in an unimaginably cool and effortless way. The Hanna-Barbera play festival, the latest project of the ever-busy thespians, brought together avant-garde actors and playwrights from Baltimore, New York and Virginia.
The chosen cartoons, Snagglepuss, Wacky Races, Tom and Jerry, The Smurfs and Space Ghost, along with films by Mark Brown and Kevin Blackistone, highlighted different elements of the classic styles. Snagglepuss, fantastically depicted by Andy Abelow, captured the corny dialog and flowery antic of the clueless mountain lion. Wacky Races drove home the looping backdrop phenomenon, while the Smurfs used classic characters to parody the election.
Most notable, however, were Tom and Jerry, directed by and starring Donna Sellinger, with fabulous costumes and props by Dina Kelberman, and Kaitlin Murphy and Grace Bedwell's Space Ghost puppet show. Tom and Jerry's minimal sets, and fantastic lighting emphasized the mime aspects of the original cartoon. The action was in the facial expression and exaggerated body language.

Space Ghost blew my mind-seriously. The sets were fantastic, the props and puppets were surreal and the performance hilariously-perfectly-deadpan (especially Owen Gardner's Space Ghost). With action-packed puppet attacks, and an amazing accompaniment by Snacks' Tom Boram and Dan Breen (who added their magic to all of the shorts), Space Ghost was amazing.


Don't miss Ionesco's Rhinoceros, directed by Kaitlin Murphy, November 13 - 15 @ 8pm