http://The Cherry Grove Community House & Theater

July 7 – August 25, 2025

APCG Community House, 180 Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove, NY 11782, USA

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Readings will take place July 7th-August 25th at The Cherry Grove Community House & Theater in Cherry Grove, Fire Island. All readings start at 8:00pm. Show your reservation for that night’s play and get 10% off at Cherry Grove Pizza.

THE PLAYS

July 7th at 8pm: THE CODEX OF NARMA by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson

The Codex of Narma is a queer story about the fluidity of gender, ambition, attraction, and reconciliation. Set in the near future after the second US Civil War, data scientist and aspiring entrepreneur Narma X has been hired to teach Black history accurately to Dhalgren Higgs by his mother Hyacynth, despite being illegal in the Free States of the southeast.​

​​​July 14th at 6pm: NIGHT CITIES by Roger Q. Mason

A young Bayard Rustin—before Civil Rights Movement fame—must choose between his private desires as a queer black man and his public calling as an agent of social justice and civic change. Set against the vibrant labor movement of the 1930s and 40s, this piece embraces the musicality, dream imagery, and liberation of jazz playwriting to explore one man’s quest for complex humanity in a world that limits who we are to how we can be used for the good of others.

July 21st at 8pm: OCEAN WALK by Gianfranco Lentini

Fire Island is underwater. A cataclysmic storm finally breached the last of the island’s defenses. All residents have evacuated…except one: Harry, a longtime resident of the Pines, refuses to leave his submerged home even when Casey, a 17-year-old Senior Deckhand of the Sayville Ferry Service, shows up to fish him out.

August 4th at 8pm: WACO BOY CLUB by Mack Lawrence

In a garage in Waco, TX, three friends tete-a-tete with ghosts, gender, and guilty pleasures. Over ouija board confessionals and chicken salad sandwiches, Waco Boy Club follows the looping and longing dialogues of Strider, Cosmo, and Phantom. The sturdiness of their relationships comes into question when gender ideation, sexual desire, 90s country music, and too much beer meet, but they can definitely agree on this: the best chicken salad does not have raisins.

August 18th at 8pm: THIS IS A FACE by J.C. Pankratz

B’s work as a potter trying to sculpt the perfect clay egg is interrupted when their partner, K, asks for a vitally important creation: a new face. Attempting the impossible will redefine what it means to see and be seen for both of them in this chimerical t4t love story.

August 25th at 8pm: ENDERS GAY by Salwa Meghjee

Laiba is a queer teenage Muslim girl who is obsessed with proving that Ender from the 1985 sci-fi novel Ender’s Game is gay, despite the author Orson Scott Card’s documented homophobia. She comes to believe she is Ender and must fall in gay love with her classmate Jannat to save the world. She is also told by her teacher Mr./Colonel Pratt to kill all the birds, who are the buggers, except they’re also gay, and they talk to her and want her to be their queen, but they’re also maybe in cahoots with Orson Scott Card, and by the way, the end of the world is tomorrow.

Buy tickets https://www.artsprojectcg.org/upcoming-events-calendar