Brian Justin Crum, Lea DeLaria And More Set For Joe's Pub

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists.

JAN 24-31
NOWHERE NEAR NORMAL starring BRIAN JUSTIN CRUM

Monday, January 24 at 7:00 PM; $20

next to normal's Brian Justin Crum makes his solo show debut here at Joes Pub! Come experience one of Broadway's most exciting new and versatile tenors as he pushes all the boundaries. With music direction by Jesse Vargas, Brian debuts a show of fresh arrangements of songs from Broadway's best and Rock favorites! Special guests: Broadway star Tituss Burgess, Grammy and Academy Award winning composer Stephen Schwartz, Wicked's Donna Vivino, and more!. This show is NOT to be missed!

PEOPLE LEA LIKE SING Stevie Wonder

Monday, January 24 at 9:00 PM; $25

Lea DeLaria hosts an amazing evening of the Stevie Wonder Songbook with musical direction by Janette Mason.

Those scheduled to perform include Justin Bond, Cady Huffman, Michele Lee, Patina Miller, Sarah Saltzberg, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Mary Testa & Scott Thompson ("Kids in the Hall"). Additional guests to be announced.

Lea DeLaria received an Obie and a Theater World Award for her work in The Public Theater's revival of On the Town. She also starred in the Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show and the City Center Encores! presentation of Li'l Abner. Her other theatrical credits include Cinderella, Little Fish, Chicago, The Boys From Syracuse, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and As You Like It. An acclaimed stand-up comic, DeLaria is also an accomplished jazz singer, and her solo recordings on the Warner Jazz label include "Be a Santa,""The Live Smoke Sessions," "Play It Cool" and "Double Standards."

 

Carlene Carter w/ special guest TAMMY FAYE STARLITE

Wednesday, January 26 at 7:00 PM; $25

"When it comes to complete and utterly wonderful depravity, few have ever dropped their drawers, exposed every orifice and let out a lustful holler with as much panache as Miss Tammy Faye Starlite, whose self-released EP, On My Knees, sets a new standard for countrified carnality." - Robert Baird, Magnet

 

"Carlene Carter ... fluctuates between the sassy country-rock of her past and reflective acoustic-country tunes about her present." - Associated

 

Daughter of the legendary June Carter Cash and Country Music Hall-of-Famer Carl Smith, and stepdaughter of the enduring Johnny Cash, Carlene Carter is heir to one of the richest musical legacies of all time. The Grammy-nominated Carter freely straddles the line between rock and country, and enjoys broad appeal across both genres. http://www.carlenecarter.us

 

OUR HIT PARADE STARRING Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman AND NEAL MEDLYN
Wednesdays, January 26, February 23 & March 30 at 9:30 PM; $20
Jan 26 guests include Erin Markey, Cole Escola, Molly Pope, Hank and Cupcake, Jeff Hiller, Natalie Joy Johnson, The Fancy, Lea DeLaria & Emily McNamara

Our Hit Parade is a live top-ten countdown show created by Tony nominee and Obie winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki & Herb), carnal chanteuse Bridget Everett (At Least It's Pink at Ars Nova), pop song opera impresario Neal Medlyn (Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol at P.S. 122), producer and MTV cameraman Brendan Kennedy, and writers Ada Calhoun and Peter Schjeldahl. The show is inspired by the musical sketch series "Your Hit Parade" that ran on radio and then television from 1935 to 1959. On that show, cast members performed the week's most popular songs as comically literal skits. In this show, the hosts and special guest stars from the local performance scene present their renditions of current popular hits live on stage!

 

Melvin Van Peebles wid LAXATIVE: Yeah unhunH Sure ... The Rubber, ie. Your Behind, Meeting The Road, Do Jesus, Hand To Heaven, Street Songs

Thursdays, January 6 & 27 at 7:00 PM; $17

Melvin Van Peebles had such a good time working with Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber bringing "Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song:The Hood Opera" to life on the Paris stage, that he decided to continue the collaboration. After enlisting Jared Michael Nickerson, Burnt Sugar's bassist & business manager, and members Paula Henderson, Bruce Mack, Mikel Banks, Will Martina, Andre Lassalle and Chris Eddleton, M.V.P. titled his new band 'Laxative.' When asked why the title, Melvin replied, "Why? ...'cause they're a crew of musicians who make sh** happen and get sh** done. That's why!" The new show, "Yeah unhunH Sure ... The Rubber, ie. Your Behind, Meeting The Road, Do Jesus, Hand To Heaven Street Songs," will feature tunes taken from Melvin's Broadway shows, movies and recordings.

 

Melvin Van Peebles - vocals

Laxative

Mikel Banks - vocals/flute/harmonica/freak-a-phone

Paula Henderson - bari-sax

Will Martina - cello

Andre Lassalle - guitar

Bruce Mack - vocals/keys

Jared Michael Nickerson - vocals/electric bass

Chris Eddleton - drums

 

COLE ESCOLA

Friday & Saturday, January 28 & 29 at 11:30 PM; $15

Cole Escola, acclaimed for his inspired musical performances in Joe's Pub's recurring smash Our Hit Parade and Casserole Live, the live performance component of his hit television series, Jeffery & Cole Casserole, makes his eagerly anticipated solo debut. With Cole's broad showmanship and sweetheart charm, his act will hearken back to a time when the great ladies of stage and screen dazzled the crowds in smoky rooms all over town. An exciting bill of standards, showtunes, Motown and original material brought to life by Cole's decidedly fresh perspective and raw energy under the direction of Ben Rimalower (Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches) and featuring a band led by Bistro Award winner Ray Fellman.

 

Justin Bond

Sunday, January 30 at 9:30 PM; $20

Recently described as " The best cabaret artist of his generation " 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.

 

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

 

ONE Healing Arts COMPANY Benefit
Monday, January 31 at 7:00 PM; $20

Insightful, funny, authentic and unexpected - SONGS OF SPIRIT is a concert of original songs by emerging musical theatre writers benefiting ONE Healing Arts COMPANY. Each song uniquely expresses what spirituality means to the writers and will be performed by some of the best contemporary Broadway Performers. (Writers and Artists to be announced shortly.)

 

SONGS OF SPIRIT is the inaugural event of ONE Healing Arts COMPANY, a New Theatre Company devoted to producing theatrical work that opens hearts and minds, creates a nurturing environment for artists, and promotes wellness and healing of mind and body, with the aim of elevating collective consciousness.

 

Please join us to explore what ONE Healing Arts COMPANY is doing. It's sure to be a surprising evening that includes great song, good drink, and a chance to win some amazing prizes in our raffle (including free acupuncture or a month of Yoga!)

 

The Villa Gillet & Happy Ending Presents
A NIGHT OF PERSONA, as part of the WALLS + BRIDGES FESTIVAL feat CECILE HUILBERT, Sarah Jones & Cynthia Hopkins
Monday, January 31 at 9:00 PM; $20
What happens when an artist "goes public", when a performer steps on stage? What is the transformation, the transmutation of the identity, from the person to the persona? The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series presents a special evening dedicated to the art, theory and practical application of persona. Through interwoven talks and performances, three dynamic guests - essayist
Cécile Guilbert, singer and musician Cynthia Hopkins, multicharacter performer Sarah Jones - will investigate how artists strive to cultivate and expose the most elusive and intangible aspects of their public personas.

Cécile Guilbert writes essays, novels and literary critic. Written with a great liberty of tone, her highly personal and polymorphous work surveys the heritage of noted artists and writers. In Sans entraves et sans temps morts (2009), she shares her views on writing in a collection of brilliantly bold, literary ambitious essays. She was awarded the prix Médicis for her essay Warhol spirit (Grasset, 2008).

Cynthia Hopkins is a writer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and theater artist. She creates and performs unique multi-media performance pieces which intertwine truth and fiction and have won her a host of awards, including the 2007 Alpert Award in Theater and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has been presented internationally, most recently at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; Soho Rep and St. Ann's Warehouse in New York; Les Subsistances in Lyon, France; and the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Through the process of making performances, she attempts to alchemize disturbance into works of intrigue and hope which simultaneously stimulate the senses, provoke emotion, and enliven the mind. She has also produced eight albums with her band, Gloria Deluxe. She is currently at work on This Clement World, a new piece addressing the climate crisis.

Sarah Jones is a Tony Award® winning playwright and performer. Her multi-character, one-person show Bridge & Tunnel was originally produced by Meryl Streep and became a critically acclaimed hit on Broadway. Sarah is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, performing internationally as a Spokesperson on Violence Against Children. Fans of her work range from First Lady Michelle Obama, who invited Sarah to perform at The White House in celebration of Women's History Month, to the Sesame Street audience that knows Sarah as Ms. Noodle from Elmo's World. For more about Sarah's work, please visit www.sarahjonesonline.com

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.

 

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