Cherry Pit Late Night History
June 12-14 | June 19 & 20 | June 26-28 2008
FUCT As Seen on TV
May 9,10 | 16,17 | 30,31 | June 6-7 2008
 VAN DRIVER!
Wordsmith, World-explorer, Mind-tripper and Revolutionary. Waldo "Van" Driver and friends thrill audienceswith their multimedia circus of the wild, weird and wonderful.
www.OperatingTheater.org
December 15, 2007
 BEST of FUCT: An evening of our favorite scenes, songs, and stunts
The NYC-based comedy troupe FUCT debuts on the Cherry Lane Mainstage for a night of its most popular scenes, songs, and stunts – all bigger, better, and more latently homo-erotic than ever before! FUCT promises a night of sketch comedy, stunts, original music, a live rock band, and more special effects than Kevin Spacey’s Moon for the Misbegotten. Whether you’re a long-time fan or a new-comer to the FUCT experience, this is the evening to see.
Featuring (in alphabetical order):
Sarah Bell, Jon Crane, Joe Galan, Tommy Galan, Brian Gillespie,
Ian Sinclair Lassiter, Janio Marrero, Graham Skipper
The Band: Vain Huge, Matt Accardo, and Red Guy
October 26 and 27, November 2 and 3, 2007
 It is the Seeing
by Renita Martin
Poetry, music, movement, beat boxing, blues, hip hop -- the percussive elements of struggle! It is the Seeing is a retrospective of war – the war that is waged against diversity in the United States. Poor people, people of color, women, gays and lesbians have been engaged in quiet battles, many lives have been lost, many have been and are being wounded. It is the Seeing serves as sometime witness, sometime soldier in this war.
Renita Martin was featured in the November 2007 issue of Curve Magazine as a Lesbian Theatre Artist to Know.
She received the Unsung Hero Award from Ebony Magazine in November 2007 in recognition of her work in making a difference for our
children, our schools, and our communities.
November 16 and 17, 2007
Aporia Repertory Company
in conjunction with
Cherry Pit Late Nite present
Existential Acts
directed by Sarah Wansley and Alex Aaronson
Variations on the Death of Trotsky
by David Ives
According the Encyclopedia Britannica, Trotsky died on August 21, 1940. Why, then, is he peacefully writing in his study on that fateful day? In this absurd short play, the audience unravels this paradox as Trotsky relives his final minutes in more and more outlandish ways, exploring the boundaries of written and remembered history.
No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Three characters discover that Hell needs no brimstone to torment its damned. Locked together in a drawing room, they become embroiled in conflict as their personalities clash. The play, which is steeped in sexual tension, culminates with a disastrous and unsolvable love triangle as the characters learn that “Hell is other people.”
February 2, 3, 9 & 10, 2007
 DEAF, DUMB and FUCT
Performed by the underground comedy troupe FUCT
www.FUCTnyc.com
www.myspace.com/fuctnyc
January 25 - 27, 2007
 EXTREME GIRL
written and performed by Barbara Blackburn
directed by Courtney Munch
What is wrong with American women? Can it be fixed? And most importantly, how much fun can we have trying? Take a joyride through the fractured American female psyche, and the culture that helps fracture it, with a teenager, a bimboist, a recovering centerfold, a French woman and more...
"charming...wonderfully complicated...a winner" -- NY TIMES
"Wickedly funny...Using her striking beauty to brainfy effect, Blackburn proves once again...that the sexiest women are the smartest." -- VILLAGE VOICE
November 16 - 18, 2006
WARNING SIGNS
created and performed by Maggie Surovell
A poignant comedy about a Jewish/Socialist/Vegetarian/Feminist named Maggie and her coming-of-age encounters with war, peace, love, racism, and Her Extremely Big Hair. One actor, 25 characters and a chair. Created and performed by Maggie Surovell. Costumes by Sarah Sophia Turner.
A New York Magazine Top Pick (July 17, 2006)
"Surovell's a solo act in life and a one-of-a-kind on stage. When she speaks, every moment is a surprise, a ponderance, a contradiction, a challenge to what is expected."
"She seems destined to defy the norms."
"This is not just stand up...Surovell addresses the issues- - desires, impulses, moments, and events that have collectively shaped this woman who is an American. Who is a citizen of the world."- Kevin Connell, nytheatre.com
November 9 - 11, 2006
 THE VAN DRIVER EXPERIENCE!
created by Jason Schuler
Take a magic carpet ride with Van Driver! Wordsmith, World-explorer, Mind-tripper
and Revolutionary. Waldo "Van" Driver and friends thrill audiences
for three nights only with their multmedia circus of the wild, the weird and
the wonderful. Regarded by some as a prophet and others as a madman, Van's
often outlandish, but eerily insightful views on life are undeniably life altering!
For more about Van visit www.doctoredpictures.com.
September 8, 9, 15 & 16, 2006
FUCT IMPREGNATES YOUR SISTER
performed by the underground comedy troupe FUCT
www.FUCTnyc.com
www.myspace.com/fuctnyc
August 17 - 19 & 24 - 26, 2006
BREAKING WALLS: A WALL STREET ROMANCE
by M. Alexandria Beech
directed by Christian Ely
featuring Gina Mahoney, Gabriel Portuondo, Matthew Pavoni, Kerry Bishe, Benjamin Ellis Fine, Scott MacArthur, Manny Liyes, and Jose Juan Torres
June 29, 30 & July 1, 2006
INTERN PROJECT 2006
a production of LIFE UNDER WATER
by Richard Greenberg
directed by Sarah Wansley, featuring Dani Tufano, Meghan Griffin, Carolyn Holding, Alex Fine and Lars Dabney
February 24 & 25, 2006
THE PASSION OF THE FUCT
performed by the underground comedy troupe FUCT
www.FUCTnyc.com
www.myspace.com/fuctnyc
December 8, 2005
January 26 - 28, February 2 - 4 & 9 - 11, 2006
BLACK GIRL YOU'VE BEEN GENTRIFIED
written and performed by Nichole Thompson-Adams
directed by John Church III
stage manager Terry Robinson
Race, Culture, Class...Jamaican born and Booklyn raised Nichole Thompson-Adams has just a few things on her mind. The neighborhood around her is changing. Is Nichole changing too? Revel in the zany and poignant experience that told her quite clearly, you've been gentrified.
November 17, 2005
SCREWING RACHEL
by Desi Moreno-Penson, directed by Don Johanson, featuring Peter Donato, Cedric Jones, Joshua Kingdon, Jon Arthur, Jenny Perdomo and Leah Sari Sparkes
November 4 - December 17, 2005
TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND
The New York Neo-Futurists present 30 plays in 60 minutes!
"Like the glory days of Saturday Night Live, Too Much Light is not just funny but faintly surreal"
-Gwen Orel, Backstage
www.nyneofuturists.org
October 13 - 15, 20 - 22 & 27 - 29, 2005
 PLEASE STOP TALKING
by Sam Forman
directed by Erwin Maas
featuring Heather Hollingsworth, Bridgett Ane Lawrence and Leah Lawrence
Three women take us on a tour through modern-day Manhattan where a soothing recorded voice begins making increasingly bizarre demands. From a techno music chat room, to an OCD support group, to a crystal meth clinic in Astoria, it seems like everybody's just looking for a little peace and quiet these days.
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