Hasan Minhaj, Maya Rudolph, Laura Benanti and More Coming Up This Fall at Joe's Pub
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 20, 2016
Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its night performances, September 21 - October 2, 2016. Scroll down, and visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows!
Wednesday, September 21 at 7:30PM
SOLD OUT!
PEN America presents The M Word: Muslim-American Comedians on the Right to Joke featuring Hasan Minhaj (The Daily Show), Negin Farsad (The Muslims Are Coming), Mo Amer (Allah Made Me Funny) and Phoebe Robinson (You Can't Touch My Hair). Award-winning playwright, New York Times contributor and television host ?Wajahat Ali will moderate. The M Word is a new series of public events launching this fall which will provide a platform for Muslim-American writers and cultural figures to address audiences on their own terms and challenge the prevailing narrow representations of highly diverse Muslim communities comprised of more than three million Americans. The series is underwritten by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program.
Betty Buckley: STORY SONGS
Thursday, September 22 at 7:00PM
Friday, September 23-25 at 7:00PM & 9:30PM
$25 - $75
Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Betty Buckley returns to Joe's Pub with her new show, Story Songs. A renowned interpreter with an eclectic taste for songs from all genres, Buckley will share a collection of songs by Radiohead and theater greats Stephen Schwartz and Jason Robert Brown. The evening will also include works by the next generation of exciting young theater composers Joe Iconis and Ben Toth. Buckley will be joined by renowned jazz pianist Christian Jacob, her long-time musical director and arranger as well as Tony Marino on bass, Oz Noy on guitar and Ben Perswsky on drums & percussion. In an award-winning career that has encompassed TV, film, stage and concert work around the globe, Buckley is probably best known as one of theater's most respected and legendary leading ladies. She is an actress/singer whose career spans theater, film, television and concert halls around the world. She is a 2012 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.
THE EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH SHOW WITH Catie Lazarus
SEPTEMBER GUESTS: Maya Rudolph, Laura Benanti & Isaac Oliver
Thursday, September 22 & November 17 at 9:30PM
Thursdays, October 27 & December 22 at 7:00PM
$30
Ever wonder what it's like to have a dreamy job? Comedian Catie Lazarus did too, so she created an utterly addictive, candid, fun talk show about work. Come see why The New York Times calls Employee of the Month "beloved" and Blackbook calls it comedian Catie Lazarus's "hilarious podcast talk show" and The New Yorker calls, "her line of inquiry is decidedly unorthodox." Guests for the September installment include Maya Rudolph, Laura Benanti and Isaac Oliver.
BROADWAY BOUNTy Hunter PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH MUSICAL THEATRE FACTORY
Monday, September 26 at 9:30PM
SOLD OUT!
Fresh on the heels of a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at Barrington Stage Company, Broadway BounTy Hunter makes its boisterous Big Apple debut in concert at Joe's Pub. Inspired by the exploitation movies of the 1970s (think Shaft or Enter the Dragon), this rafter-shaking new musical follows down-on-her-luck actor Annie (played by Annie Golden) as she's asked to become a bounTy Hunter and capture a South American drug lord. With an instant-classic R&B/Funk score, the musical follows a woman of a certain age as she tries to find the inner strength she needs to save theatre and realize her true badass identity. Starring an electric and diverse cast led by Alan H. Green, Scott Watanabe and Jeff McCarthy, be among the first to catch a glimpse of the show that everyone is talking about. Ready or not, here comes Annie Golden: BounTy Hunter!
THE FALL OF Julian Fleisher - VOLUME 1: 1975, POP MUSIC'S VERY BEST YEAR EVER
Tuesday, September 27 at 7:00PM
$25
Julian Fleisher and his rather big band play a rather big tribute to 1975, pop's very best year as part of the Fall of Julian Fleisher residency. Before the art of song was divided into narrow stylistic slices of jazz or pop or rock, there was nightclub singing. Like Sammy Davis, Jr, Ethel Water and Mel Tormé before him, Julian Fleisher mixes masterful interpretations of a wide range of popular songs with powerful showmanship and a generously endowed band that, as The Washington Post put it, "blew the roof off of Joe's Pub."
Tuesday, September 27 at 9:30PM
SOLD OUT!
Jacob Collier is recognized as one of the world's most distinctive, inventive and prodigious young musicians. Based in London, Collier has been inspired by many sounds. His music combines elements of jazz, a cappella, groove, folk, trip-hop, classical music, Brazilian music, gospel, soul and improvisation. He has embraced the world of the Internet to share his uniquely creative talent, becoming best known for creating his trademark multi-faceted YouTube videos from his music room at home, wherein he sings all the parts, plays all the instruments, and visualizes every component with a mosaic of screens. Since his first YouTube upload in December 2011, Collier's online social channels have garnered over 100K international followers and more than 6 million YouTube views.
Friday, September 28 at 7:00PM
$20
Sam Salmond (2016 Jonathan Larson Grant winner) comes with a gang of Broadway's best - Ato Blankson-Wood, Lilli Cooper, Julia Murney, Shakina Nayfack, Jon Rua & more - to present lively, infectious and disarming songs from Eighty-Sixed and other upcoming musicals! This is a rare chance to hear the premiere of one-of-a-kind tunes about teenage outcasts, LGBT heroes, monsters, mad scientists, prisoner paradoxes, love and more. With a style The Boston Globe calls "preciously talented," "rudely funny" but with "raw anguish at its heart," and musical influences from Bowie to Ben Folds to Sondheim, Salmond promises a night of pop/rock theater, laughter and catharsis! The evening is director by Marlo Hunter, produced by Natasha Sinha, music directed by Benjamin Rauhala and features new orchestrations by Charlie Rosen.
Wednesday, September 28 at 9:30PM
SOLD OUT!
Choir! Choir! Choir! is a Toronto-based singing group led by creative directors Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman. The duo takes a non-traditional approach; there are no auditions, and the audience is the choir. Just show up and they'll teach you an original arrangement to a song you love. Founded in 2011, Choir! Choir! Choir! has amassed a dedicated and passionate community of singers and a thriving international fan base on YouTube. The group has performed with renowned artists such as Patti Smith, Tegan and Sara, and Rufus Wainwright, and onstage at New York's Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall with the likes of Debbie Harry and The Flaming Lips. Choir! Choir! Choir! exists to celebrate music and push the boundaries between practice and performance, artist and audience, offering therapeutic benefits with the ultimate side effect: a powerful community.
2016 DANCENOW ENCORE - 21ST ANNUAL SEASON
Thursday, September 29 at 7:00PM
$25 Advance / $30 Door
Acclaimed for its adventurous short-takes format, the DANCE NOW Festival, now in its 21st year, presents a diverse array of works by some of today's most exciting dance makers. The 2016 festival featured 40 emerging and mid-career choreographers side by side, including festival newcomers and DANCE NOW veterans in the famed, convivial setting of Joe's Pub. The extraordinary TruDee emceed every event and will emcee the encore as well. A testing ground for the development of new work, DANCE NOW Joe's Pub centers around a unique challenge for artists: to create a clear and complete artistic statement in five minutes or less for the specifics of the stage at Joe's Pub. The festival producers have selected ten artists (to be announced) whose work best met the festival challenge to participate in this encore performance. The overall challenge winner will receive a $1,500 development stipend and a weeklong creative residency at DANCE NOW Silo on Kirkland Farm in Bucks County, PA.
JOHNNY GALLAGHER
Thursday, September 29 at 9:30PM & Friday, September 30 at 7:30PM
$15 / $20
2016 has been a big year for Johnny Gallagher or, as he is better known here in NYC, John Gallagher, Jr. He appeared in the surprise hit films 10 Cloverfield Lane and Hush, returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night and released Six Day Hurricane, an album of his own original songs that jump from tender introspective ballads to soaring Americana rock anthems. Fresh from playing a string of east coast concerts with Hadestown composer and acclaimed singer/songwriter Anais Mitchell, he comes back to Joe's Pub for the first time since 2008 to share an intimate night of music.
Friday, September 30 at 9:30PM
SOLD OUT!
Out of the crowds of New York City has come a singular talent with an ear for melody and a timeless approach. Crooner and song crafter Paul Loren describes his music as "golden-tone pop," but to the savvy listener, it is so much more. Infusing elements of Soul, Rhythm & Blues and the American Songbook, Loren's music is at once the right kind of familiar, yet altogether refreshing. With an electrifying stage show, and a knack for fashion that would make Cary Grant envious, he exudes that rare combination of both substance and style. Paul Loren is truly a 'soul crooner' for the generations.
Saturday, October 1 at 7:30PM
$20
Fiddler and singer from Northern Estonia, Maarja Nuut's music combines traditional dance tunes, songs, and stories with live electronics, creating a space where classical minimalism and experimental music meet the village musical traditions of pre-war Europe. While her work is often compared to composers such as Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, and La Monte Young; Matador Records notes that "Maarja Nuut is someone that can bring Estonian folk to an international audience. (...) I can see a contemporary indie audience for her as well: for example, fans of Bon Iver, Andrew Bird, and Sigur Ros."
TANYA DONELLY: SWAN SONG SERIES
Saturday, October 1 at 9:30PM
$25
Tanya Donelly, Grammy-nominated, singer/songwriter and founding member of three of the most influential bands of the post-punk era (Breeders, Throwing Muses, Belly) plays music from The Swan Song Series: a collection of songs in which Donelly collaborated with friends, musicians and authors such as Rick Moody, Robyn Hitchcock, John Wesley Harding, Bill Janovitz (Buffalo Tom), Tom Gorman and Gail Greenwood (Belly), Claudia Gonson (Magnetic Fields), and more.
Saturday, October 1 at 11:30PM
$15
Awakened from her year-long slumber, Adonna is hungrier than ever for laughs, claps and laps. This queen's got jokes, tunes, and legs for days with a hard spot in her heart for cake and ... well, you know. Offering an exquisite combination of raunchy personal stories, dangerously high belting, and pure unadulterated shade, this queen is not to be missed. Leave your flats at work, your lovers at home, and spend the night with Adonna who will show you just how pleasurable a little indulgence can be.
Sunday, October 2 at 7:30PM
$15
Silver Ladder is an auditory shot in the arm from veteran touring songwriter Peter Mulvey. Produced by the indomitable Chuck Prophet, it is a lean, muscular collection of tightly constructed songs, leavening Mulvey's tendency toward ruminative and yearning acoustic songs with a dose of sharp-witted, punchy rock and roll. After a turbulent stretch in his personal life left him at sea, Mulvey decided to write his way out of it: "I've been through it. I bet you have too," he said, "but there are times in life when you turn a corner and suddenly everything is simple: let's make some songs, people! Let's play!" Committing to writing one song a week relieved him of the precious, self-involved artist's question, "What do I have to say?" The songs came flooding out over the weeks and months, and within a year he had more than enough for a new record.
Joey Arias IS WITH YOU NOW
Sundays, October 2, 9, 16 at 9:30PM
$25
New York icon Joey Arias returns with a 3-show residency of Joey Arias Is With You Now this fall. With musical direction by Ben Allison (upright bass), the show features an expanded band including piano, drums, a brass section and Brandon Seabrook on guitar! Joey Arias is With You Now is a sonic experience; a musical journey that responds to the changing nature of reality as we move further and further into the realms of social media, virtual reality and Artificial Intelligence. In the lead up to the election, Arias requests your presense in real-time. Step away from your screens, put down your phones and join the "demigod of the demimonde" (Time Out) for an evening of twisted tales, original songs and re-imagined covers.
For tickets, go online at joespub.com, call 10AM-7:00PM daily at 212-967-7555, or visit in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC (Opens daily at 2PM). There is a $12 food / two (2) drink minimum per person per show, unless otherwise noted.
Named for Public Theater founder Joe Papp, Joe's Pub at The Public debuted in 1998 and plays a vital role in The Public's mission of supporting young artists while providing established artists with an intimate space to perform and develop new work. In 2013, Joe's Pub celebrates 15 years of the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community and artistic freedom. It received a top-to-bottom renovation in 2011, leading to improved sightlines, expanded seating capacity and a new menu from acclaimed Chef Andrew Carmellini. With its intimate atmosphere and superior acoustics, Joe's Pub presents talent from all over the world as part of The Public's programming downtown at its Astor Place home, hosting approximately 800 shows and serving over 100,000 audience members annually.
The Public Theater, under the leadership of Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, is the only theater in New York that produces Shakespeare, the classics, musicals, contemporary and experimental pieces in equal measure. Celebrating his 10th anniversary season at The Public, Eustis has created new community-based initiatives designed to engage audiences like Public Lab, Public Studio, Public Forum, Public Works, and a remount of the Mobile Unit. The Public continues the work of its visionary founder, Joe Papp, by acting as an advocate for the theater as an essential cultural force, and leading and framing dialogue on some of the most important issues of our day. Creating theater for one of the largest and most diverse audience bases in New York City for nearly 60 years, today the Company engages audiences in a variety of venues-including its landmark downtown home at Astor Place, which houses five theaters and Joe's Pub; the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, home to free Shakespeare in the Park; and the Mobile Unit, which tours Shakespearean productions for underserved audiences throughout New York City's five boroughs. The Public's wide range of programming includes free Shakespeare in the Park, the bedrock of the Company's dedication to making theater accessible to all; Public Works, an expanding initiative that is designed to cultivate new connections and new models of engagement with artists, audiences and the community each year; and audience and artist development initiatives that range from Emerging Writers Group and to the Public Forum series. The Public is located on property owned by the City of New York and receives annual support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and in October 2012 the landmark building downtown at Astor Place was revitalized to physically manifest the Company's core mission of sparking new dialogues and increasing accessibility for artists and audiences, by dramatically opening up the building to the street and community, and transforming the lobby into a public piazza for artists, students, and audiences. The Public is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony Award-winning Fun Home and Lin-Manuel Miranda's acclaimed American musical Hamilton, and Danai Gurira's Eclipsed featuring Lupita Nyong'o. The Public has received 47 Tony Awards, 168 Obie Awards, 52 Drama Desk Awards, 54 Lortel Awards, 32 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 13 New York Drama Critics Awards, and five Pulitzer Prizes.
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