Jackie Hoffman Among May/June Line Up at Joe's Pub

Joe's Pub Announces the following line up for May:

Lady Rizo: AN UNESCORTED TRIBUTE TO Nina SimonE

Friday, May 20 at 9:30 PM; $15 in advance / $20 at the door

"I've always been drawn to Nina Simone's music- the strength, versatility, the raw emotion. She is, simply put, a badass diva and did something with popular music that I aim to do today- to mix, separate and explore." - Lady Rizo

Though it is rumored that she is the product of a night of unrestrained indulgence between Peggy Lee, Mel Brooks, Nina Simone, Dean Martin and Janis Joplin the truth is Lady Rizo was raised by theatrical gypsies with the highest show business ethics. When she almost looked of age she rebelled against the comforting, unscrubbed, rustic life and set out for a world of harsh metropolitan sophisticates.

The 'Cabaret Superstar' (New York Magazine) exploded on to the New York stage with a powerful voice and stage charisma that has made audiences take note. As a chanteuse and comedienne revives the cabaret genre by creating vintage arrangements of pop songs from the 80s, 90s and today. Lady Rizo (nee Amelia Zirin-Brown) co-created the cult caburlesque spectacular Lady Rizo and the Assettes in 2005. In January 2010 she won her first Grammy on a duet with acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. She also sings and records with multi-platnum recording artist Moby and was nominated for an MVPA for the choreography the video for the single New York, New York featuring Debbie Harry.

She is the Mistress of Ceremonies for the hotspot The Darby which is in the same location as the legendary nightclub Nell's. She brings her arrangements there nightly to entertain music luminaries like Prince, Ashford and Simpson, Beyonce & Jay-Z.

A proud recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship last year, she has performed her sold out show monthly at Joe's Pub for coming on two years and was just commissioned for a full length piece by The Public Theater this year that will premiere later in the year.

MAY 28-31
AMBER MARTIN: AMBER ALERT!

Saturdays, May 21 & 28 at 7:00 PM; $15

"Amber has turned that Big Apple into a quivering pool of applesauce. Listening to her sing is like aural saline." -- Dina Martina

"Like watching Ruth Draper after she's come back from an acid trip during which she thought she was Janis Joplin... Fight for a ticket." -- Willamette Week

In the footsteps of comic character monologists such as Lily Tomlin, John Leguizamo, and Whoopi Goldberg, acclaimed comedic performance artist Amber Martin brings her award winning chops to Joes Pub. Created and performed by Martin, Amber Alert! is an intimately mind-altering hour of meticulously chosen musical and comedic vignettes from Amber's strange and fascinating toybox of characters.

Blending music, video, monologues, movement, and acid-capped comedy with a pristine, multi-octave range singing voice, Amber Alert! is Amber Martin's own serio-comic multiple-personality trip.

Noted as a performer of many faces and voices with boundless energy to burn, performer Amber Martin has left such celebrity audience members as Joyce Dewitt, Michael Stipe, Karen Black, Chuck Palanhuik, Todd Haynes, Dina Martina, John Cameron Mitchell, and Justin Bond howling in ecstasy. So put on your thinking caps for an old school downtown-style cocktail performance by one of the next sensations of thought-provoking musical comedy... Miss Amber Martin.

THE DISCOVERY SHOW w/ special guest KENNETH T. WHALUM III

Saturday, May 28 at 9:30 PM; $12 / $8 at the door w/ College ID

Jae London (Songwriter/ Producer) of The Discovery Album cannot be contained to one genre. Having creative ability to blend Jazz, Hip-Hop, & Soul with a style of his own is something many call classic. Tonight's musical performance features Saunders Sermons, Kimberly Marshall & Chris Turner w/ special guest Kenneth T. Whalum lll Cory Cox (Drums) Andre Cleghorn (Bass) Eli Menezes (Guitar) Chris Sands (Piano) Albert Rivera (Saxophone) Kameron T. Whalum (Trombone) Jon Notar (Piano/ Keyboard) backing vocals: Tyneshia Hill, Jasmine Elliott & Baritone Williams

The Discovery Album is now available on iTunes worldwide & all digital music outlets. Album features Saunders Sermons, Kimberly Marshall, Chris Turner, Jesse Boykins, Jasmine Elliott & others. The album's list of musicians are quite creditable just as the vocalist ranging from Lonnie Plaxico, Kenneth Whalum lll, Jerome Jennings, Muhsinah, Bruce Harris, Jamire Williams, Jon Notar, Rashaan Carter, Corey Bernhard & Omar Abdulkarim just to name a few.

SAM FRIEND

Saturday, May 28 at 11:30 PM; $12

"In an age where music has been whittled down to invisible bits and bytes, Miami singer-songwriter Sam Friend builds his pop-infused Americana with the skill of a master carpenter. Crafting captivating songs about love and loss...His voice is reminiscent of early Conor Oberst and James Mercer of the Shins with a touch of Thom Yorke. Friend is bound to be a player in the anti-folk scene for years to come." - After Hours Music Blog

MICHELLE SHOCKED w/ special guests THE SWEATER SET

Sundays, May 29, June 12 & 19 at 7:00 PM; $27 per show; $66 combo ticket for all 3 shows

May 29 Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of The Texas Campfire Tapes

An opening set by DC duo The Sweater Set, followed by a solo performance of the complete collection of songs from The Texas Campfire Tapes; from 5 a.m. in Amsterdam through The Secret to a Long Life (is knowing when it's time to go) in sequence and taking requests for additional bonus track material from the 2003 reissue of the legendary album. A brief segment to follow will focus on advocacy of arts education in public schools. For the finale, a short preview of songs from the current work in progress, Indelible Women.

June 12 Roadworks 2011 New York City

An opening set by DC duo The Sweater Set, followed by a spontaneous, improvised set list of requests from the audience drawn from Michelle's entire 13-album catalog. Come and try to stump the band with obscure requests rarely played live. A brief segment to follow will focus on advocacy of arts education in public schools. For a finale, a preview will be presented of songs and narrative from the current work in progress, Indelible Women

June 19 Indelible Women

An opening set by DC duo The Sweater Set, followed by a presentation from the current work in progress, Indelible Women. While in residency in New York, Michelle will be collaborating with directors and writers and actors in hopes of developing the material into a theatrical choreopoem and will be showcasing the results of the effort in this final show. If it falls flat, she promises to sing Anchorage instead!

JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND

Sundays, May 8, 15, 22 and 29, June 5, 12, 19 & 26 at 9:30 PM; $25

"Justin Bond is a trans-Atlantic cabaret messiah" - Time Out London

Recently described as "A bar of gold in the new depression" by Hilton Als in the New Yorker, singer, songwriter and Tony-nominated performance artist Justin Bond is an Obie, Bessie and Ethyl Eichelberger Award winner and was named one of the top 40 favorite New Yorkers by Time Out New York and was listed by Time Out London as one of England's 50 Funniest People. His debut EP Pink Slip was released in July 2009. In 2008, he won rave reviews for his GLAAD nominated show Lustre which premiered at PS122 in the East Village and then went on to tour the UK with stops in Manchester, England as part of the It's Queer Up North Arts Festival and in a critically acclaimed run at London's Soho Theatre. Also in 2008, Justin appeared at The Southbank Center in London in the title role of Sinderella an original musical written by Martyn Jacques of The Tiger Lillies. In 2007, he premiered Justin Bond is Close To You, a reinterpretation of the classic Carpenter's album Close To You performed in its entirety as part of Joe's Pub in the Park in Central Park and subsequently presented by The Sydney Opera House in Australia. He regularly Emcees the performance series Weimar New York which has played in such varied locations as the SFMOMA, The Speigeltent, and Joe's Pub at The Public Theater in New York.

As one-half of the Performance duo Kiki and Herb, Justin has toured the world headlining at Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and starred in successful runs on Broadway and off-Broadway. Kiki and Herb have released two CDs, Do You Hear What We Hear?, Kiki and Herb Will Die For You at Carnegie Hall and a DVD Kiki and Herb Live at the Knitting Factory.

Film credits include a starring role in John Cameron Mitchell's feature Shortbus, Charles Hermann-Wurmfeld's Fancy's Persuasion as well as Imaginary Heroes and Jon Moritsugu's Mod Fuck Explosion. In 2006 Bond completed his MA Scenography at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. Justin credits his career as a queer performer to Kate Bornstein who cast him as Herculine Barbin in her ground-breaking play Hidden: A Gender in 1991.

JACKIE FIVE-0H!: A CELEBRATION OF Jackie Hoffman'S FIRST 50TH BIRTHDAY
Mondays, May 23 & 30 at 7:30 PM; $30
ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY FINAL PAIR.....OF SHOWS!

Jackie Hoffman'S

"SAVAGELY FUNNY!" (David Rooney, The New York Times)

"SENSATIONAL!" (Hilton Als, The New Yorker)

"HILARIOUSLY GRUMPY" (Adam Feldman, Time Out NY)

"SCATHINGLY BRILLIANT!" (Joe Dziemianowicz, The Daily News)

JACKIE FIVE-OH!

MAY 23 AND MAY 30 AT JOE'S PUB

Jackie Hoffman's sold-out JACKIE FIVE-OH! will perform two added shows at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) Monday, May 23 and Monday, May 30, both at 7:30 pm. This will be the final extension for the critically-acclaimed show, which began in December and has extended three times previously due to popular demand.

In JACKIE FIVE-OH!, the blisteringly funny, filter-free Hoffman muses on her own decay at 50, her career of playing 'bit' parts, her thoughts about being in The Addams Family and an array of other topics running the gamut from Queen Latifah to Kristen Chenoweth. Hoffman also sings five new original songs (written with musical director Bobby Peaco). Hoffman will also continue in her hilarious, scene-stealing performance as Grandma in THE ADDAMS FAMILY into the fall.

Hilton Als in The New Yorker called JACKIE FIVE-OH! "a sensational new show" and added "why doesn't some clever producer wrap Hoffman up in a solo show on Broadway, where she belongs?" David Rooney in The New York Times called JACKIE FIVE-OH! "savagely funny." Adam Feldman in Time Out wrote, "Like cloves, a little of Jackie goes a long way. But a lot of Jackie, it turns out, can go even further-as she has proven time and again in her hilariously grumpy one-woman shows at Joe's Pub, which have won her a well-deserved cult following. JACKIE FIVE-OH! finds Hoffman in excellent form. Her robust whine gets better with age." Joe Dziemianowicz in The Daily News called JACKIE FIVE-OH! "scathingly brilliant and hilarious." David Sheward in Backstage wrote, "the blisteringly funny Hoffman unflinchingly skewers sacred cows such as the Tony Awards and Holocaust movies, flings acid barbs at the Broadway hierarchy, and does painfully accurate imitations of a gallery of showbiz icons."

JACKIE FIVE-OH! is written by Hoffman and Michael Schiralli, and directed by Schiralli. Musical numbers are co-written with Bobby Peaco, who is also the musical director.

Performance Schedule: Monday, May 23 at 7:30 pm; Monday, May 30 at 7:30 pm; For tickets, visit www.joespub.com or call (212) 967-7555.

Jackie Hoffman has performed on Broadway in Xanadu, Hairspray (Theatre World Award) and The Addams Family. Solo shows: Whining In the Windy City, Scraping the Bottom, Jackie with a Z, Chanukah at Joe's Pub (Bistro Award), The Kvetching Continues (Time Out New York's Outstanding Achievement Award). Off-Broadway: Regrets Only, Manhattan Theatre Club Tribeca Theatre Festival, The Book of Liz, (Obie Award) Straightjacket, Incident at Cobbler's Knob, (Lincoln Center Theatre Festival) and One Woman Shoe. Regional: Second City Chicago (Jeff Award); The Sisters Rosensweig, Old Globe, San Diego. Films: The Extra Man, A Dirty Shame, Garden State, Legally Blonde II, Kissing Jessica Stein, Mo' Money. Television: "30 Rock," "One Life to Live," "Starved," " Hope and Faith," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Strangers with Candy," "TV Funhouse," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien,"

"Soulman," "Cosby." Animation: Dilbert and PB & J Otter, Robots, Queer Duck the movie. Comedy Album: Jackie Hoffman Live At Joe's Pub.

MARY HALVORSON QUINTET

Monday, May 30 at 9:30 PM; $12 in advance / $15 at the door

Critics have called Brooklyn-based guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson "NYC's least-predictable improviser" (Howard Mandel, City Arts), "the most forward-thinking guitarist working right now" (Lars Gotrich, NPR.org) and "one of today's most formidable bandleaders" (Francis Davis, Village Voice). Her most recent release, 2010′s Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12 Records), was one of the consensus records of the year, earning a spot on more than 90 best-of lists. Tonight she and her Quintet will be performing all new compositions in anticipation of going into the studio next month to record. Find out more at www.maryhalvorson.com.

ROXANE BUTTERFLY´S MOODANZA featuring ANDY MILNE & BRAHIM FRIBGANE

Tuesday, May 31 at 9:30 PM; $18
"There is tap-dancing. There is Hoofing. Then, there is Roxane Butterfly," - La Gazette (Montréal)

International Tap-dance icon Roxane Butterfly presents a rhythmic exploratory journey, where the nomadic hoofer combines her jazz to influences she received travelling Spain, North-Africa and beyond.

TICKETS

Online at joespub.com

Phone 212-967-7555,

In Person At The Public Theater Box Office (1 PM to 6 PM), or at the Joe's Pub Box Office from (6 PM to 10 PM) both located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC

For table reservations please call 212-539-8778. Purchase of tickets does NOT guarantee a table reservation; you must call to reserve seats. Seating, as well as standing-room, is available only on a first-come, first-served basis for all shows without a dinner reservation. Two drink or $12 food minimum per person is standard.