Joe's Pub Announces Lawrence Wright's The Human Scale, DanceNOW And More
By: Gabrielle Sierra Feb. 16, 2010
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.
With impeccable sound and lights, the warm and intimate candlelit atmosphere of Joe's Pub is filled with plush velvet couches, softly glowing lucite tables and gorgeously understated architecture. Joe's Pub is open seven days a week, regularly hosting as many as three shows a day. Dinner and drink service is available during every performance; the venue offers a classic Italian dinner menu and a fully stocked bar.
ARTISTS ANNOUNCED:
THE HUMAN HEART: HELPING HAITI'S CHILDREN
Monday, March 1 at 7:00 PM
Featuring performances by Farah Alvin, Tituss Burgess, Mario Cantone, Quentin Darrington, Jerry Dixon, Gregg Edelman, Kecia Lewis-Evans, Janine LaManna, Billy Porter, Robin Skye, Stephanie Umoh, Lynne Wintersteller & more....
MAR 17 - MAR 21 AT JOE'S PUB
FEATURING
THE HUMAN SCALE
Wednesday, March 17 & Saturday, March 20 at 7:00 PM & Sunday, March 21 at 2:00 & 7:00 PM
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright performs The Human Scale - an unsparing, graphic exploration of the ongoing crisis in Gaza
WORLD RECORD APPRECIATION SOCIETY #13
Wednesday, March 17 at 9:30 PM
What Wikipedia is to the Encyclopedia Britanica, World Record Appreciation Society is to the Guinness Book.
DANCENOW [NYC] PRESENTS NICHOLAS LEICHTER DANCE'S THE WHIZ: EMERALD CITY
Thursday, March 18 at 7:30 PM, Friday, March 19th, at 8:00 PM, Saturday, March 20th at 9:30 PM
"A nonstop binge of attitude, high-energy stepping, & freewheeling virtuosity." - Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
DOLLY WOULD: A BOOBLESQUE TRIBUTE TO Dolly Parton
Thursday, March 18 at 9:30 PM
World Famous *BOB* hosts an burlesque evening honoring America's songwriting treasure, singer, actress and style icon.
LADY RIZO: UNESCORTED
Fridays, February 19, March 19 & April 23 at 10:00 PM
"Caburlesque artist Lady Rizo has, thankfully, upped the ante... throwing in enough hyperfemininity to blow your heart and go down on your mind." - Sharyn Jackson, Village Voice
Sunday, March 21 at 9:30 PM
The incomparable diva sensation Justin Bond returns for a special night of song at Joe's Pub
ARTISTS JUST ANNOUNCED:
THE HUMAN HEART: HELPING HAITI'S CHILDREN
Monday, March 1 at 7:00 PM
Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and After The Storm present The Human Heart: Helping Haiti's Children at Joe's Pub on Monday, March 1st at 7 PM. Starring Farah Alvin (Chess, The Look Of Love, Nine), Tituss Burgess (Guys And Dolls, The Little Mermaid, Jersey Boys), Mario Cantone (Laugh Whore, Assassins), Quentin Darrington (Ragtime), Jerry Dixon (Once On This Island, Five Guys Named Moe), Gregg Edelman (A Tale Of Two Cities, Wonderful Town, Into The Woods, City Of Angels), Kecia Lewis-Evans (The Drowsy Chaperone, Once On This Island, Chicago), Janine LaManna (The Drowsy Chaperone, Seussical, Ragtime), Billy Porter (Smokey Joe's Cafe, Grease), Robin Skye (Parade, Cyrano), Stephanie Umoh (Ragtime), Lynne Wintersteller (A Grand Night For Singing, Closer Than Ever) and others. Directed by Randy Redd, Aaron Jodoin musical directs and leads a 5 piece band with vocalists Cole Burden, Mary Catherine McDonald, Caroline Dooner, Matt Dengler. All proceeds go through After The Storm directly to SOS Children's Villages.
SOS Children's Villages is assessing the most immediate needs of the thousands of victims of the disaster in Haiti and will provide medical supplies, drinking water and basic food supplies. In the days and weeks to come, SOS Children's Villages Haiti will provide temporary care for children who are not accompanied by adults or even long-term care for children who have lost their parents in this terrible catastrophe.
The After the Storm Foundation was established to offer assistance and support not only to North Rampart Street Community Center but also to other already existing relief organizations currently serving the youth of New Orleans. The first step in the foundation's creation was the formation of a life-to-life link between the New York music, theater and film community and North Rampart Street Community Center. By getting to know its people and programs, the foundation is better able to assist community center staff members in setting up new opportunities for youth and buoying up already existing programs -- by providing the needed funds and offering technical and moral support. For tickets, priced $40 (General) and $100 (Premium seating and Meet & Greet with the performers),
MARCH 17-21
THE HUMAN SCALE
Wednesday, March 17 & Saturday, March 20 at 7:00 PM & Sunday, March 21 at 2:00 & 7:00 PM
Following up on his essay "Captives" published in the November 9th issue of The New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright performs The Human Scale - an unsparing, graphic exploration of the ongoing crisis in Gaza, one of the most searing political conflicts of our day. Returning to the stage following his acclaimed My Trip to Al Qaeda, Wright workshops his newest piece in collaboration with director Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of The Public Theater.
Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.
He is a graduate of Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the American University in Cairo, where he taught English and received an M.A. in Applied Linguistics in 1969. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1971, Wright began his writing career at the Race Relations Reporter in Nashville, Tennessee. Two years later, he went to work for Southern Voices, a publication of the Southern Regional Council in Atlanta, Georgia, and began to freelance for various national magazines. In 1980, Wright returned to Texas to work for Texas Monthly. He also became a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. In December, 1992, he joined the staff of The New Yorker, where he published a number of notable articles, which have won him the National Magazine Award for Reporting as well as the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, and Overseas Press Club's Ed Cunningham Award for best magazine reporting.
Wright is the co-writer (with Ed Zwick and Menno Meyjes) of The Siege, starring Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis and Annette Bening, which appeared in November 1998. He also wrote the script of the Showtime movie, Noriega: God's Favorite, directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Bob Hoskins, which aired in April 2000.
His history of al-Qaeda, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006) was published to immediate and widespread acclaim, spending eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and being translated into twenty-five languages. It was nominated for the National Book Award and won the Lionel Gelber Award for nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Award for History, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
In 2006, he premiered his one-man play, "My Trip to al-Qaeda," at The New Yorker Festival, and then enjoyed a sold-out six-week run at the Culture Project in Soho. It is now being made into a documentary film, directed by Alex Gibney, who won the 2008 Academy Award for Feature Documentary.
Wright has published six previous books. City Children, Country Summer (Scribner's, 1979), In the New World: Growing Up with America, 1960 - 1984 (Knopf, 1988), Saints & Sinners (Knopf, 1993), Remembering Satan (Knopf, 1994), Twins: Genes, Environment, and the Mystery of Identity (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1997; Wiley & Sons, 1998), and God's Favorite (Simon & Schuster, 2000).
Wright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves as the keyboard player in the Austin-based blues band, Who Do.
www.lawrencewright.com
Oskar Eustis has been the Artistic Director of The Public Theater since 2005. From 1981 through 1986 he was resident director and dramaturg at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco, and Artistic Director until 1989, when he moved to the L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum as Associate Artistic Director until 1994. Mr. Eustis then served as Artistic Director at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island for eleven years. At The Public he has directed the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet, featuring Michael Stuhlbarg and Sam Waterston, and the New York premiere of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise. At Trinity Rep, he directed Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Henry IV and Julius Caesar at the Mark Taper Forum. At Trinity Rep he also directed the world premiere of Paula Vogel's The Long Christmas Ride Home (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production); Homebody/Kabul (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production); the world premiere of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise; Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director); Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika; as well as world premieres of plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Emily Mann, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ellen McLaughlin, and Eduardo Machado. He commissioned Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. He was a professor of Theatre, Speech and Dance at Brown University, where he founded and chaired the Trinity Rep/Brown University Consortium for professional theater training. He received an honorary doctorate from Brown in 2001 and currently serves as Professor of Dramatic Writing and Arts and Public Policy at New York University. $20
WORLD RECORD APPRECIATION SOCIETY #13
Wednesday, March 17 at 9:30 PM
Dubbed "Best Oddball Night" by New York Magazine, the World Record Appreciation Society features an ever-changing lineup of eclectic performers setting unique world records. The night is hosted by the Universal Record Database (URDB.org), a Web site The New Yorker says "is to the Guinness World Records as Wikipedia is to the Encyclopaedia Britannica." World records set at previous events have ranged from 'Most Cocktail Umbrellas Fit In Hair In One Minute' to 'Tallest Drawing Of A Midget' to 'Most Bananas Fit In A Pair Of Pants At Once.' URDB are regular guests on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and host thousands of unique records on their site. $12
"Our live events bring out a mix of individual bravery, group participation, hilarity, surprise and all-around general chaos," says URDB co-founder and event host Dan Rollman. "We've seen everything from a wedding proposal to the world's tallest carrot cake to 12 women standing on top of a man rolled up in a carpet."
DANCENOW [NYC] PRESENTS NICHOLAS LEICHTER DANCE'S THE WHIZ: EMERALD CITY
Thursday, March 18 at 7:30 PM, Friday, March 19th, at 8:00 PM, Saturday, March 20th at 9:30 PM
"A nonstop binge of attitude, high-energy stepping, & freewheeling virtuosity." - Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
Dancenow [NYC] presents Nicholas Leichter dance's new The Whiz: Emerald City, the Wizard of Oz for the Obama generation, as a part of the Spring 2010 Dancemopolitan series. After the inspired debut of You Can't Win Brand New Day Medley at the 2009 Dancemopolitan Modern [Dance] Musical series, dancenow invited Nicholas Leichter and Monstah Black to expand their piece into a full-evening work. Using music reconstructed from The Wiz and some added selections, THE WHIZ reimagines New York's underground communities through song, dance, and Prince-esque extravaganzardry. Leichter will choreograph and perform with his company of eight dancers; while Black reconstructs and performs the score live.
The Oz of Leichter and Black references the film characters, but is a reflection on 21st-century New York in movement and melody rather than musical-theater homage. Various themes appear throughout the 70-minute work with an array of different styles-house, funk, postmodern, drag, hip-hop, contemporary, and psychedelic-which traverse a landscape of hopes, fears, and dreams.
Dancenow is presenting the full-evening cabaret version of THE WHIZ: EMERALD CITY before the project moves downtown to the larger, proscenium space at Abrons Arts Center June 17-19 for the world premiere of The Whiz: Obamaland. $15 in advance / $20 at the door
DOLLY WOULD: A BOOBLESQUE TRIBUTE TO Dolly Parton
Thursday, March 18 at 9:30 PM
Dolly Would: a Booblesque Tribute to Dolly Parton! Come and honor America's songwriting treasure, singer, actress and style icon at the triumphant return of this special evening hosted by The World Famous BOB. Also featuring Miss Saturn, Darlinda Just Darlinda & Clams Casino, live music provided by Viva and her surgically-perfected trio, special surprise guests and personal and true testimonials! To testify how Dolly changed your life, send your story to dollysavedme@gmail.com $12 in advance, $15 at the door
LADY RIZO: UNESCORTED
Fridays, March 19 & April 23 at 10:00 PM
The incomparable "cabaret star" (NY Magazine) Lady Rizo is back for an unchaperoned evening of song and decadence. You may have seen her here at Joe's Pub with her "glam bottom baring dance troupe the Assettes " (Village Voice), celebrating the billboard top ten in the monthly series Our Hit Parade, or midtown at the gothic Night Hotel co-hosting the weekly transnational lounge Foreign Affairs.
But here is your chance to have her all to yourself. Her seamless mix of baudy humor and elegance has been likened to Mae West but its her vocal chops that have garnered recent attention: collaborating with both Yo-Yo Ma & Moby on albums this year, singing selections of the American Songbook in front of the internationally acclaimed 36 -piece orchestra The Knights, and at MOMA for a sold out cabaret for the Kirchner Exhibit.
Let her lashes beguile you as she interprets an irresistible mix of popular songs from all eras backed by some of the finest musicians in New York City. Even though she is venturing out solo, if you know Lady Rizo you won't be surprised if a couple special guests pop up. $15
Sunday, March 21 at 9:30 PM
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 (‘Justin Bond is a trans-atlantic cabaret messiah' ***** Time Out London). Also in 2008 Justin appeared at The Southbank Center in London in the title roll 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 in Central Park and subsequently presented by The Sydney Opera House in Australia. In 2005 his show, Glamour Damage, had its world premiere at London's Soho Theatre and was hailed by the Evening Standard as "A glittering walk on the wild side." 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 a featured vocalist on the London Readers Wifes' single Nostalgia, he had a top 20 hit on the UK alternative chart. Bond also toured internationally with avant-garde noise/cabaret band Pantychrist. A Cable Car award winning journalist, Bond was also nominated for a Bay Area Critics Circle Award for his solo work Dixie McCall's Patterns for Living. 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 (The Helen Hayes Theatre) and Off- (The Cherry Lane Theatre). 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. $20
TICKETS
Online at joespub.com, phone 212-967-7555, and 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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