Kathleen Turner, Vincent D'Onofrio and More Coming Up at Joe's Pub This Week
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 07, 2015
Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its nightly performances, October 7-18, 2015. Scroll down or visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows!
OCTOBER GUESTS: KATHLEEN TURNER, LISA KRON, MARA WILSON, MARGARET COLIN, SUSANNAH CAHALAN & ELYSSA EAST
Wednesdays, October 7, November 4 & December 9 at 7:00PM
$20
Women of Letters is everyone's favorite literary salon! Every month, New York's best and brightest women come together on stage to celebrate the lost art of letter writing. For the October installment, expect laughter, tears, and camaraderie as host Sofija Stefanovic welcomes guests reading "a letter to my 80-year-old self." The lineup is Kathleen Turner, Lisa Kron, Mara Wilson, Margaret Colin, Susannah Cahalan and Elyssa East.
Letters veterans include: Molly Ringwald, Edie Falco, Susan Orlean, Martha Wainwright, Siri Hustvedt, Amanda Palmer, Melissa Auf Der Maur, JD Samson, Tavi Gevinson, Stoya, Ophira Eisenburg, Yael Stone, Jena Malone, Jenny Eliscu, Jean Grae and more. Proceeds are donated to charity, with over $750,000 being raised globally to date. NYC events benefit the New York Women's Foundation. Women of Letters is produced by Trish Nelson's BanterGirl.
Wednesday October 7 at 9:30PM & Sunday, December 6 at 7:00PM
SOLD OUT
Known as the "Jerry Seinfeld of France," Gad Elmaleh is the voice of Barry B. Benson in the French version Bee Movie. The son of a mime, Elmaleh rose to fame in France with his autobiographical 1997 one-man show, Décalages. In 2000, he cemented his reputation in French comedy with his second one-man show La Vie Normale. His prolific career in French film and television includes notable performances starring opposite Gerard Depardieu in 2004's Ole! and opposite Audrey Tautou in 2006's Priceless. Elmaleh came to the attention of American audiences in 2011, with roles in both Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin. In 2013, Elmaleh appeared as a guest on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Thursday & Friday, October 8 & 9; & Thursday October 29 at 7:00PM
$15 Adv / $20 Doors
Beyond what we can see, can we be? Daniel Alexander Jones returns to Joe's Pub as his alter ego Jomama Jones with celebrated pianist Samora Pinderhughes, a stellar band, vocalists Laura Jean Anderson and Kelly Erin Sloan, and a few very special guests to investigate the heart of our matter. Singing original songs from her forthcoming album, Flowering, composed with Bobby Halvorson, and brand new compositions with Dylan Meek, and Samora Pinderhughes, Jomama will explore the signs and signifiers found in the darkest part of the night that send us toward the blush of dawn. Pinderhughes's searching and motive arrangements will call the flowers to blooming. This night? Black Light!
This run is a work-in-progress presentation of Jomama Jones: Black Light, which is in development as part of the New York Voices program, the artist commissioning division of Joe's Pub.
Thursday, October 8 at 9:30PM
$16
Australian cabaret performer Kim David Smith conjures the glitter and doom of Weimar-era Berlin with Stargazing, a genre-mashing, disco-cabaret fantasia. Directed by Michael Rader (Cirque du Soleil), Stargazing is an intimately electronic reimagining of musical constellations formed from stars old and new, including Kurt Weill, Kylie Minogue, Friedrich Hollaender, Sia, Edith Piaf, Madonna, and Marlene Dietrich.
Friday, October 9 at 9:30PM
$20
Nano Stern's indie-folk-rock-jazz fusion is deeply rooted in traditional Chilean music and inspired by legends Violeta Parra, Victor Jara and Inti-Illimani. Humble, enlightened, genuine and charismatic, Stern is a guitar virtuoso, with a powerful singing voice, whose rise to fame has been meteoric and his stature in Chile has risen to the point of being woven into Chile's cultural history. In five short years, he has gone from busking the width and depth of his home country of Chile and throughout Europe and Australia to performances on the stages of WOMAD Adelaide and UK, Lollapalooza Chile, and SXSW to sold-out concerts at Teatro Caupolican in Santiago and five acclaimed CDs.
Sunday, October 11 at 7:30PM
$15 Adv / $20 Doors
Italian singer-songwriter and pianist Chiara Civello returns to New York with Canzoni (Songs), the contemporary Italian songbook as never heard before. On Canzoni, her fifth studio album (Quarter Moon/Sony Music), Civello has gathered an extraordinary array of collaborators: the monumental Gilberto Gil, the poetic Chico Buarque, the pop diva Ana Carolina and the jazz star Esperanza Spalding. The lush, almost hypnotic orchestral arrangements were conceived by the legendary Eumir Deodato. DJ/Producer Nicola Conte provided an alluring blend of contemporary sensibility and old school analog sound. The result is a celebration of love songs which looks out from Italy to the entire world.
ARTISTS FOR WORLD PEACE ON BROADWAY 5
Sunday, October 11 at 9:30PM
$35-$200
Artists for World Peace presents its fifth annual Broadway fundraiser. Broadway performers sing, dance, and tell stories to help children all over the world. This year's performers include Deanna Aguinaga (West Side Story, A Chorus Line, Mamma Mia!), Alan Ariano (The King and I,Miss Saigon, Jerome Robbins Broadway), Stephen Carrasco (Kinky Boots, Billy Elliot, Ghost, White Christmas), Natalie Charle Ellis (School of Rock, Les Mis), Dionne Figgins (Motown, Memphis, Leap of Faith), Albert Guerzon (Honeymoon in Vegas, Mamma Mia!, Ghost), Greg Hildreth ( Cinderella, Peter and the Starcatcher, Bloody Bloody), Monica Kapoor (Mamma Mia!, Bombay Dreams), Paul HeeSang Miller (The King and I, Mamma Mia!), Halle Morse (Mamma Mia!), David Perlman (Baby It's You), Jen Perry (Kinky Boots, Mamma Mia!), Christopher Rice (The Book of Mormon), Sharone Sayegh (Mamma Mia!), Daniel J. Watts (After Midnight, Motown, Memphis, Ghost, In the Heights), Libby Winters (American Idiot), Ryan Worsing (Finding Neverland,Chicago, Shrek, White Christmas) and Blake Whyte (Wicked, Mamma Mia!).
Monday, October 12 at 7:30PM
$20
Simply put, Gaucho is a gypsy jazz band. But their love of music stretches far beyond to the music of the great jazz age, guitarists Teddy Bunn, Oscar Moore and Charlie Christian. Their new record features 12 new songs by bandleader Dave Ricketts, who is as inspired by Fats Domino and Hoagy Carmichael, as he is by Jimmie Rodgers, Brian Wilson and Lennon/McCartney. This concert will tie it all together!
Monday, October 12 at 9:30PM
$15
New York indie trio Moondrunk - Andrew Bancroft (vocals/guitar), Ashley Pérez Flanagan (vocals/percussion) and Yair Evnine (cello/beats) - straddles the line between heartbreak and humor, weaving cello, guitar and vocal harmonies into intimate acoustic music, theatrical comedy and even hip hop. The group also performs musical theater - their original musical Orpheus and Eurydice Are F--king In Love debuted opening night of the 2015 Ars Nova ANT Fest. Every Moondrunk show features honest reflections on love and loss, an audience-inspired freestyle rap and a healthy dose of laughter. They are currently raising money for their debut album.
MIREL WAGNER W/ OPENER SYE ELAINE SPENCE
Tuesday, October 13 at 7:00PM
$15
There is a defiant air of unflinching bravery in Mirel Wagner's carefully chosen words and skeletal chords of her acoustic guitar. Her songs are like a smooth, polished black pebbles, thrown into a cold bottomless pond - drops of life that set the darkness rippling. Her acoustic balladry is as far as you'll get from clichéd coffee house folk, having more to do with the primeval darkness of Swans than the folksy bonhomie of Bob Dylan.
Sye Elaine Spence's latest solo releases include the warm, folk-inflected EP entitled, Bloom along with a more recent two song outfit Repeat/1964, which recently premiered on NPR Music. Along with Bloom, the project has received positive reviews from sites including Pigeons & Planes, CMJ, Afropunk and more.
THE TALENT SHOW, HOSTED BY ELNA BAKER & KEVIN TOWNLEY
THEME: MYSTERIES OF THE UNKNOWN
Tuesday, October 13 at 9:30PM
$15
The Talent Show, the wildly popular and hilarious variety show from writers and comedians Elna Baker and Kevin Townley, creates an entirely new event each month based on a theme. Embracing the inherent danger of live performance, we create a show that challenges and surprises both the audience and performers alike. October guests include: Jon Ronson, Hanna Cheek, Maeve Higgins, Jason Kane, Georgia Stitt, Dave Hill, Joel Kim Booster, MC Frontalot & more!
Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30PM
$22
Alison Brown is an internationally recognized musician with a wide-reaching and loyal fan base. She first came to national prominence when she was asked by Alison Krauss to join her band Union Station in 1989. Brown stayed with Union Station for three years and then spent a year serving as band leader for Michelle Shocked. In 1991, she earned bluegrass music's highest accolade for an instrumentalist: the International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player of the Year.
Wednesday, October 14 at 9:30PM
SOLD OUT
Jill Hennessy is best known for her starring roles on "Law & Order" and "Crossing Jordan." She has had an extensive film and television career. As a singer-songwriter, Hennessy wrote all of the music and lyrics on her debut album, Ghost In My Head. She performed on the Lilith Tour with Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls and the Dixie Chicks and was featured on Indigo Girls' live album Staring Down The Brilliant Dream. Hennessy also wrote all the music and lyrics on her second album I Do (October 2nd, 2015).
Thursday, October 15 at 7:00PM
$20
Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra is Ethan Lipton (vocals), Eben Levy (guitar), Ian M. Riggs (standup bass) and Vito Dieterle (sax). Lipton writes the lyrics and melody, and the quartet arranges the songs together. They have released five albums and been named the city's "Best Lounge Act" by New York Magazine. In 2012, the band won an Obie Award for No Place to Go, a theatrical song cycle written by Lipton about a man who loses his job, which was produced by the Public Theater at Joe's Pub. The show earned rave reviews and has since been produced theatrically all over the world, most recently at the Gate in London. The band has been featured on several NPR and PRI radio shows, and contributed to the Clash cover album Sandinista. They also play songs on and appears in the film The Shift. Their latest album Raw Milk came out in Summer 2015.
NO BS! BRASS BAND W/ OPENER KALEN & THE SKY THIEVES
Thursday, October 15 at 9:30PM
$15
No BS! Brass Band, based in Richmond, VA, takes the New Orleans brass band into uncharted territory; fearlessly combining elements of James Brown, John Coltrane, Michael Jackson, and Led Zeppelin into their fiercely original sound. Trained in the conservatory and hardened in the garage, No BS! Brass has performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Festival of New Trumpet Music, Lockn festival, and on National Public Radio's Tiny Desk Concert. Equally at home in the club or on the parade route, in the concert hall or on a festival stage, No BS! Brass creates new believers wherever it goes.
Brooklyn-based Kalen & the Sky Thieves is a moody-rock band led by singer Kalen Lister. Mixing disparate influences of jazz, folk, psychedelia and funk with the common denominator of old-fashioned rock and roll, KST have been bringing their magic to increasingly large audiences across the Northeast. Their debut full-length, Bluebird, was released by Ropeadope Records in Fall 2014.
Friday, October 16 at 7:30PM
$25
At age 13, Emily Bear is a pianist, composer and arranger. One of the most astonishing and prolific musical talents of our time, she composes, orchestrates and performs in a remarkably diverse collection of styles. She has performed at many of the world's most famous venues including Carnegie Hall, the White House, Lincoln Center, Montreux Jazz Festival, Blue Note, Ravinia and the Hollywood Bowl, among others. Her sold-out concerts have taken her around the world from concert halls across the U. S. and Europe to palaces in Vienna to stadiums in Japan and Korea. Whether before a crowd of 15,000 at Art On Ice in Zurich or an intimate concert at The Blue Note in NYC - Bear's rare ability to inhabit a composers style or to touch emotions with her original melodies has inspired people worldwide.
FIRST LADIES OF DISCO FT. MARTHA WASH, LINDA CLIFFORD AND EVELYN "CHAMPAGNE" KING
Friday, October 16 at 9:30PM & Saturday, October 17 at 7:00PM
$55 Adv / $65 Doors
Martha Wash, Linda Clifford and Evelyn "Champagne" King are three extraordinary women who have made their marks on the pop, R&B and disco charts. They have joined forces for the first time as First Ladies of Disco. The vocal power of this new ensemble is unsurpassed, and their style and energy meld perfectly on stage and in their debut single, "Show Some Love."
Sunday, October 18 at 3:00PM & 7:00PM
$25 - $45
Director Colman Domingo and the New York City Children's Theater present two special concert performances of A Band of Angels, winner of the 2015 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Family Musical. Spunky teenager Ella is transported back to 1870s Nashville where she joins the Jubilee Singers, a gospel choir still in operation today. Written by Myla Churchill, NYCCT's exhilarating musical features show-stopping spirituals including "This Little Light of Mine", "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "Hold On."
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO & DANA LYN: SLIM BONE HEAD VOLT
Sunday, October 18 at 9:30PM
$20
To steal unapologetically from Steinbeck, Vincent D'Onofrio and Dana Lyn's Slim Bone Head Volt is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. The work is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps of an actor's brain and a musician's hands. Its inhabitant are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches," by which he meant D'Onofrio. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holymen," and he would have meant Lyn. The project's theatrical roots are evident: Slim Bone Head Volt is the free-form system of Stanislavski mixed with the daring of Sturm und Drang and the broken fourth wall of improvisation; it's Ionesco and Brecht meets The Last Poets and Tom Waits; a theater-of-the-absurd-in-the-round and unabashed circle in the square times of today.
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 opened 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. Joe's Pub consistently presents the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community and artistic freedom. The organization also offers unique opportunities like New York Voices, an artist commissioning program that provides musicians the resources and tools needed to develop original theater works. Commissioned artists have included Ethan Lipton, Toshi Reagon, Bridget Everett, Allen Toussaint and more. In 2011, the Pub received a top-to-bottom renovation, 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 Shakespeare 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 its beloved, 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, a new initiative that is designed to cultivate new connections and new models of engagement with artists, audiences and the community each year; new and experimental stagings at The Public at Astor Place, including Public Lab; and a range of artist and audience development initiatives including its Public Forum series, which brings together theater artists and professionals from a variety of disciplines for discussions that shed light on social issues explored in Public productions. The Public Theater 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. Key elements of the revitalization included an expanded and refurbished lobby; the addition of a mezzanine level with a new restaurant lounge, The Library, designed by the Rockwell Group. The Public Theater is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony Award-winning Fun Home and Lin-Manuel Miranda's acclaimed American musicalHamilton. The Public has received 47 Tony Awards, 167 Obie Awards, 52 Drama Desk Awards, 48 Lortel Awards, 31 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 13 New York Drama Critics Awards, and four Pulitzer Prizes.
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