Scott Thompson, Roseanna Vitro, Michael Shannon and More Set for Joe's Pub thru 9/28
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 16, 2014
Joe's Pub at the Public has announced its performances, September 17 through the 28th. Details below! Visit us at www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows.
Wednesday, September 17 at 7:30PM
$25
Before the art of song was divided into narrow stylistic slices, before there was 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 kick-ass showmanship and a generously endowed band that -- as the Washington Post put it -- "blew the roof off of Joe's Pub." Guests include Justin Vivian Bond, Kenny Mellman, Tonya Pinkins, Joe Shane, Kristen Sieh, Stew, The Persuasions and more
September 17 - October 11
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays at 9:30PM
Saturdays at 11:30PM
$33 / $25 Members
Originally commissioned as part of The Joe's Pub 2013 New York Voices series, ROCK BOTTOM will have a full theatrical run as part of The Public's 2014-15 season. Written by the ferociously talented Bridget Everett with Tony Award-winning songwriting duo Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz and Matt Ray, ROCK BOTTOM is the entertainer's first major production since her 2007 musical At Least It's Pink. ROCK BOTTOM is what happens when you're too passionate to give up, and too big to fail. In it, Everett, who The New York Times has called a "pure id on the rampage," barrels through life tip-toeing toward disaster, wine bottle by wine bottle and man by man. However, instead of succumbing to a chardonnay-induced stupor, Everett embraces a series of revelations that lead her and her voice of an angel to redemption. ROCK BOTTOM features new original songs written with Shaiman, Wittman, Ray and Horovitz, as well as familiar favorites heard in Everett's monthly sold-out showcase with her band The Tender Moments at Joe's Pub.
Thursdays and Fridays, September 18 & 19, October 2 & 3 at 7:00PM
$25
"Going into a room and drifting out of a room because there was no real purpose in going in, nor any more purpose in going back out again. That was the drift. The drift was everything that you did without having a reason. But where was a reason for anything at all. Oh, you could invent a reason, and some were plausible. Some were plausible enough for being accepted the way a polite excuse is accepted for convenience or social policy. But there had been nothing." -from Tennessee Williams's novella The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
In The Drift, Justin Vivian Bond creates a new, free associative, collage of spoken word and song inspired by the story of Karen Stone, a retired actress who drifts from one space to another -either in her mind, in couture or in bed.EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH WITH CATIE LAZARUS
Thursday, September 18 at 9:30PM
$20
Ever wonder what it's like to have a dreamy job? Comedian Catie Lazarus did too, so she created the Employee of the Month show, an utterly addictive, candid, fun talk show about work. Lazarus kicks off her fall season of shows with a slate of brilliant guests: legendary cartoonist Al Jaffee (Mad Magazine), chef Tom Colicchio (Craft, Top Chef), comedy writer Simon Rich (SNL, Pixar, etc) and musician Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields). The night also includes music, comedy, Eric Biondo, Chrish Mullivan, Rob Jost and more! The New York Times calls Employee of the Month "beloved" and Black Book calls it "hilarious." The New Yorker has said, "her line of inquiry is decidedly unorthodox."
RYAN RAFTERY IS THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN FASHION
Friday, September 19 at Midnight
$25
By popular demand, Ryan Raftery extends his run as the most powerful woman in fashion! She has sat at the top of a $300 billion industry for twenty-six years. Her power and influence cannot be denied. But when she places a reality star and a certain rapper on the cover of her magazine, the backlash is harsh and for the first time, her credibility is called into question. Through popular music and an astounding measure of creative license, "demented Rat Packer for the millennium" Raftery returns to Joe's Pub to tell the story of a fateful day in the life of the most powerful woman in fashion.
HIGHLINE CHAMBLER ENSEMBLE: CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS
Saturday, September 20 at 7:00PM
$18
Charlie Parker with Strings is one of the landmark recordings in all of 20th century music. The record paired the legendary altoist with a chamber ensemble consisting of strings, harp and oboe, and featured beautiful, accessible arrangements of selections from the Great American Songbook. The Highline Chamber Ensemble, in collaboration with saxophonist Nick Biello, will honor the 97th birthday of Charlie Parker and commemorate the Carnegie Hall concert by performing a program of selections from the album.
Highline Chamber Ensemble is a conductor-less string ensemble comprised of classically-trained musicians who believe in the power of music to bring people together. Highline revamps the perception of stuffy concertizing by emphasizing the audience experience. Saxophonist and composer Nick Biello has been hailed as "a brash new voice in New York's vibrant jazz scene."
SCOTT THOMPSON: TRIGGER WARNING
Saturday, September 20 at 9:00 PM
$20
Canadian funny man, Scott Thompson ("Hannibal," "Kids In the Hall," "Larry Sanders"), brings Trigger Warning, his new one-man show to New York in his latest attempt to advance his career, get laid and appear human.
SLIVER OF A FULL MOON
Sunday, September 21 at 7:00PM
$12
Sliver of a Full Moon is a portrayal of resistance, restoration and celebration. This powerful new play documents the grassroots movement that led to the historic reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act ("VAWA") that President Obama signed into law in March 2013. As a result of a 1978 United States Supreme Court decision (Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe), Indian Nations had been stripped of their inherent jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed against their own citizens. Following the Court's decision in Oliphant, rates of domestic violence and sexual assault against Native women on reservations sky rocketed to epidemic proportions. As reauthorized in 2013, VAWA now includes a jurisdictional provision recognizing the inherent sovereignty of Indian Nations to prosecute non-Natives who commit crimes of domestic violence against Native women on tribal lands.
Sliver of a Full Moon's cast features three of the courageous Native women who stepped forward to publicly in 2013 to share their stories of survival and abuse with Members of Congress: Diane Millich (Southern Ute), Lisa Brunner (White Earth Ojibwe) and Billie Jo Rich (Eastern Band Cherokee). These women step forward to once again take the stage and personally share their stories of survival. Sliver of a Full Moon combines performance with personal, art with advocacy, and rehearsed with reality to create an incomparable theatrical experience.
Sunday, September 21 at 9:30PM
$22
Hosted by the parents (you think) you wished you had, Stella Starsky and Quinn Cox, Afterclap is an encore evening of performances by the stars and special guests the Afterglow Festival in Provincetown. The evening includes Max Steele, John Kelly, Amber Martin, Nath Ann Carrera, Colin Self, Jill Pangallo, Fauxnique, Patrick Johnson, Brian King, James Lecesne, Tammy Faye Starlite and more to be announced!
Starsky + Cox are internationally best-selling authors, consultants, TV personalities, meta-physicians, and musical cosmic comics. They are authors of Sextrology and Cosmic Coupling and contributors to The Daily Beast, Glamour, Paris Vogue, Allure, Elle, Cosmopolitan and more. Their many outspoken fans include J.K. Rowling, Charlize Theron and Tori Amos, who wrote a song inspired by them. Starsky + Cox have been featured on television's "Live", MTV's "The Guy Code" VH1's "Big Morning Buzz" and are regular guests on "Chelsea Lately." They are founders, with John Cameron Mitchell, of Afterglow.
Monday, September 22 at 7:30PM
$18
With a love of R&B, a passion for Broadway, and a unique voice that embodies the two, two-time Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry shares an exciting mix of his own arrangements that combine pop hits, Broadway and original music. Whether it's mixing Sam Cooke with John Kander or John Legend with Gershwin, the evening is as diverse as the composers, but the songs all touch the soul. Fresh off of his Tony-nominated role in Broadway's Violet, he showcases a voice that New York "brings the house down."
BILLY CLIFF W/ SPECIAL GUESTS ANDRE HENRY & ANNETTE HARRIS
Monday, September 22 at 9:30PM
$15
Billy Cliff is a Brooklyn-based singer adept in many different musical styles. Cliff has sung lead for jazz group Spyro Gyra, jazz saxophonist Paul Taylor, the Blues Brother Band and Kool and the Gang. He can also be heard dueting with Tony Award winner Melba Moore on "Still in Love," a song written and produced by Cliff. Cliff has also toured and/or sung with Maxwell, David Byrne, Dianne Reeves, Olivia Newton John and more.
Andre Henry is an award-winning singer-songwriter specializing in sensitive, intelligent, alternative R&B music. His music combines classic soul, turn-of-the-century-R&B, and indie music with elements of folk, reggae, electronica. Think Seal meets Frank Ocean meets James Blake.
Annette Harris makes her New York City debut, tipping her musical crown to her hugest influence -- her mother who cultivated her artistic evolution by instilling a deep appreciation of music. Harris came of age singing in choirs and groups while listening to Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin and Roberta Flack. Her voice epitomizes the deeply felt rich emotions and sultry sounds of jazz, soul and R&B. She continues to evolve as a sought-after vocalist, putting out her debut album When We Dance, in 2011.
Tuesday, September 23 at 7:30PM
$18
Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita are the winners of the 2014 Songlines Award for Cross-Cultural Collaboration. Finch, who hails from Wales, is one of the most highly acclaimed classical harpists of our time. Keita, who is Senegalese, comes from a long line of virtuosos of the kora, the ancient West African harp. Together they draw on their diverse traditions and transform them, creating new music described as "intricate, ethereal and entrancing" (Neil Spencer, Uncut).
MIGGUEL ANGGELO: BETWEEN DREAMS / ENTRE SUEÑOS
Wednesday, September 24 at 7:30PM
$20
Brooklyn-based, Venezuelan-born Migguel Anggelo, returns to Joe's pub with a brand new evening of theatrical music and poetic storytelling. A dynamic singer and dancer known for his electric stage performances, Anggelo cut his teeth in the worlds of musical theater and opera, bringing his larger-than-life emotions to this intimate performance. Backed by a group of virtuosic musicians, Anggelo imagines the passions and struggles of great visual artists as a metaphor for the real life struggle of new and old immigrants striving to be heard. Through his original songs, reinterpreted works by Latin American greats like Agustin Lara and Astor Piazzolla, as well as pop music, Anggelo shares a personal story that is as joyous and touching as it is unflinchingly honest.
The artist's most recent project, the forthcoming album LA CASA AZUL, produced by Mau Quiros and mixed by Grammy winner Felipe Tichauer, will be launched in 2014.
Thursday, September 25 at 7:30PM
$17.50
Vancouver's Jill Barber released her sixth album, Fool's Gold, on June 17th in Canada on Outside Music. Though she rarely works within the confines of any one genre, Barber continues to explore different musical styles from traditional country to jazz to Motown. She writes in the spirit of the Brill Building era where hook and melody reigned. Produced by Les Cooper and Drew Jurecka, the album encapsulates the search for love. Barber says, "In life we're always looking for the real thing. And when it comes to love, we're all fools. Something shiny and new can turn to brass. Still, we bet everything on the hope that one day our prize will deliver. Rich is the fool who stumbles upon fortune in love."
C4 TRIO & JUANCHO HERRERA W/ SPECIAL GUESTS SOFIA REI & SOFIA TOSELLO
Thursday, September 25 at 9:30PM
$20
El Colectivo Sur, an artist collective fostering collaborations between South American musicians based in NYC and abroad, presents an evening of cutting edge Venezuelan music featuring NYC-based singer songwriter Juancho Herrera and world acclaimed folkloric string ensemble C4 Trio. They will be joined by special guests Argentinean vocalists Sofia Tosello and Sofia Rei.
Herrera draws from his South American roots as well as jazz and blues, generating a catalog of original songs and unique renditions of Latin American music. Herrera's versatility and virtuosity as a guitarist enable him to perform with artists like Claudia Acuña, Marta Gomez, Lila Downs, Alejandro Sanz, Branford Marsalis, Mercedes Sosa, Ryuichi Sakamoto and The Chieftains.
C4 Trio centers on the Venezuelan Cuatro. The group -- Jorge Glem, Edward Ramirez, Hector Molina and Rodner Padilla -- is one of the new musical references of Venezuelan instrumental music. With four albums, C4 Trio infuse new perspectives and energy to the Cuatro repertoire through collaborations with Venezuala's legends like Gualberto Ibarreto and el Pollo Brito, and shows with artists such as Jorge Drexler, Oscar D'Leon, Gilberto Santa Rosa and Anat Cohen.
ROSEANNA VITRO: CLARITY ALBUM RELEASE
Friday, September 26 at 7:00PM
$25
Grammy-nominated vocalist Roseanna Vitro sings with flawless intonation, pitch-perfect flowing lines and the ability to make the meaning of a song's lyrics resonate. Vitro debuts CLARITY - Music of Clare Fischer, lyric versions of the composer's outstanding melodies, out on Random Act Records. A follow-up to her widely-acclaimed project, The Music of Randy Newman, CLARITY finds Vitro focusing her talents on a pioneering composer of renown. Sara Caswell's violin soars with passion over pianist Mark Soskin's ingenious arrangements over Latin rhythms and jazz.
Friday, September 26 at Midnight
$30
Pam Ann's debuts BAD AIR HOSTESS, a new show about a glamorous, heavy-drinking, drug-abusing and fashion-obsessed international air hostess with more issues than Vogue. Pam Ann would rather flick the pages of fashion magazines in the galley, snort cocaine and scroll the Internet for 'love' than deal with her passengers. She is destructive and reckless in her approach to life, always chasing the high but always left short of the runway. She says what other cabin crew would like to say and embraces terrorism! If you're easily offended or scared of flying this show is for you!
Saturday, September 27 at 7:00PM
$22
Dan Finnerty caught America's attention as the foul-mouthed wedding singer in the box-office smash Old School, performing his now-infamous rendition of "Total Eclipse of the Heart," as well as his appearance as the sleazy bat-mitzvah singer in Starsky & Hutchand again as the inappropriate wedding singer in the record breaking hit The Hangover.
What started as a drunken joke for Finnerty singing "I Am Woman" at a karaoke bar has spiraled out of control into THE DAN BAND - a cult phenomenon that has garnered rave reviews from The New York Times, The L.A. Times, Variety, Rolling Stone among others, and prompted Entertainment Weekly to dub it "the hottest ticket in Hollywood."
HALLETTIADE: THE SONGS OF NICK HALLETT
Saturday, September 27 at 9:00PM
$15 Adv / $20 Door
Returning to Joe's Pub for his first full evening in five years, "invaluable" (New Yorker), "ever-compelling" (Time Out NY) composer-vocalist Nick Hallett assembles a group of stars culled from the downtown performance and new music worlds to sing a collection of his most recent songs. Featuring special guest Joey Arias alongside the voices of Miguel Guttierrez, Bridget Barkan, Katie Eastburn, Erin Flannery, Emily Manzo, Daisy Press, Katie Eastburn and Amelia Watkins; with Jeanann Dara, Pauline Kim Harris and Ray Sweeten. This concert is supported by a grant from The Casement Fund.
SANDA WEIGL: SKY BIRD FEAT. MAT MANERI & LUCIAN BAN
Sunday, September 27 at 7:30PM
$18
Romanian-born singing sensation Sanda Weigl returns to Joe's Pub with Sky Bird - German-expressionism songs of the Weimar culture. The album features new arrangements by the 2006 Grammy nominee viola avant-garde master Mat Maneri and Transylvanian expat jazz pianist Lucian Ban mixing traditional inflections with the avant-garde sound of jazz and the biting sonorities of the cabaret.
As outspoken politically as she is uncompromising musically, Weigl rose to fame as a teen member of one of East Germany's most popular rock bands. After publicly denouncing communism and Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia, she was banned from performing and sentenced to two years forced labor in an East Berlin factory; then, expelled to the West where she was free to continue crafting her art.
JACK KEROUAC: THE FLORIDA-NEW YORK CONNECTION
Sunday, September 28 at 9:30PM
$30
The second annual celebration of the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence Project, with composer David Amram and his quintet, author Joyce Johnson, actors Michael Shannon and John Ventimiglia, poet and actor Frank Messina, singer Trisha O'Brien and novelist Maya Sloan, returns to Joe's Pub. Legendary composer and early Kerouac collaborator Amram will play with his band (Kevin Twigg, drums; Rene Hart, bass; Elliott Pepper, Adam Amram, Robbie Winterhawk, percussion) and guest vocalist O'Brien.
For tickets, go online at joespub.com, by phone 10AM-7PM daily at 212-967-7555, or in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC (Opens daily at 2PM).
ABOUT JOE'S PUB AT THE PUBLIC 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.
ABOUT THE PUBLIC THEATER AT ASTOR PLACE Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public Theater is the only theater in New York that produces Shakespeare and the classics, musicals, contemporary and experimental pieces in equal measure. 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, new and experimental stagings at The Public at Astor Place, 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. The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust provides leadership support for The Public Theater's year-round activities.
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