Noche Flamenca, Adrienne Truscott, House of Larreon and More Set for Joe's Pub, Now thru 4/19
By: BWW News Desk Apr. 07, 2015
Joe's Pub at the Public has announced its nightly performances, running April 8 - 19, 2015. Details below!
Now-Friday, April 6-10 at 7:00PM & 9:30PM
$35 - 45
This special run of shows by the dazzling Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca, whose vitality, energy and passion have won accolades around the world will continue the legacy that they have built at their New York City home. Noche Flamenca maintains the essence, purity and integrity of one of the world's most complex and mysterious art forms, creating powerful performances that radiate off the intimate Joe's Pub stage. The company was founded in 1993 by artistic director Martin Santangelo and his Bessie Award-winning wife Soledad Barrio. Recognized as Spain's leading flamenco touring company, Noche has been hailed for its authentic performances of one of the world's most complex and mysterious art forms - without the use of tricks or gimmicks.
THE UNIVERSAL THUMP: THE SEDER-SONGWRITER PROJECT
Saturday, April 11 at 7:30PM
$15
Brooklyn-based The Universal Thump (led by Australian ex-pat singer-songwriter, Greta Gertler Gold & producer, drummer, multi-instrumentalist Adam D Gold) are known for their elaborate, sweeping orchestral pop approach to recordings and live shows. An all-inclusive, secular, humanist celebration, The Seder-Songwriter Project is a group of NYC's finest singer-songwriters, each performing one new song based on its story and/or rituals, culminating in a modern re-telling and re-interpretation of the Jewish holiday through contemporary song - a one-off, "Musical Seder."
WUNNERFUL WUNNERFUL!: A TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE WELK
Saturday, April 11 at 9:30PM
$20
Leslie Goshko and James Bewley co-host Wunnerful Wunnerful!, an all-new musical salute to spring inspired by the long-running Lawrence Welk television program. Bewley, as his alter ego Dale Seever, picks up the celebrated conductor's baton and tries his best to lead an evening of popular song as interpreted by a troupe of performers he's hand selected for the show. Far from a traditional tribute, the performance veers into unexpected territory as petty jealousies, forbidden passions, and over-sized egos of the cast are revealed. While viewers could only guess as to what was going on behind the scenes on the Welk program, Wunnerful Wunnerful! highlights the real tensions of putting on a show, where things are sometimes not so wunnerful.
ADRIENNE TRUSCOTT'S ASKING FOR IT:
A ONE-LADY RAPE ABOUT COMEDY STARRING HER PU--Y AND LITTLE ELSE!
Saturdays, April 11 & 18 at MIDNIGHT
$15
Adrienne Truscott presents her multi-award winning show Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pu--y and Little Else! Dressed only from the waist up and the ankles down, she undoes and does-in the rules and rhetoric about rape and comedy and the brilliant, awful or awkward laughs when the two collide. With commentary and 'appearances' from George Carlin, Louis C. K. and Robert De Niro, she takes on ducks, pu--y-puppets, mini-skirts, rape whistles, Daniel Tosh, Bill Cosby and enough gin and tonics and bad behavior to get a girl in trouble. Of Asking For It, The Scotsman said, "Without a doubt the most powerful hour of comedy on the Fringe."
PAYING THE RENT! FT. ANTHONY RAPP, DANIEL QUADRINO & MORE!
Sunday, April 12 at 7:00PM
$30 - $145
Anthony Rapp (RENT, If/Then), Daniel Quadrino (Newsies, Peter Pan: Live!), Tamika Lawrence (Matilda, If/Then), Dee Roscioli (Wicked) and more gather for a one-night only rock concert benefiting Uncompromising Artistry Productions, a brand new theater company. The cast of UAP's RENT performs one night before traveling to Scotland for a month-long engagement as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
SCREAM ALONG WITH BILLY: HIGH CONCEPT
Sunday, April 12 at 9:30PM
$20
Scream Along With Billy returns to Joe's Pub with an all new show for Easter. Billy Hough and Susan Goldberg bring their unorthodox theatricality and musical chops to HIGH CONCEPT, a tribute to the great concept albums from SGT PEPPER'S to THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL. The unabashed provocateurs will also include guests Michael Cunningham, Lili Taylor, Garagedogs, and Joe Donohue in what John Waters calls "The bravest thing I've seen in 20 years."
DRAMA CLUB: 50 YEARS OF FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE W/ EL TEATRO CAMPESINO
Monday, April 13 at 7:00PM
$20 - $50
In 1965, on the picket lines of Cesar Chavez's Delano Grape Strike, Luis Valdez founded El Teatro Campesino when he and a group of workers began producing short skits or "actos" to dramatize the conditions of migrant farmworkers, with the workers themselves playing the parts. To celebrate the company's 50th Anniversary, Public Forum presents two of those original actos as part of its celebrated Drama Club series with a cast of major Latino talents and thinkers, including Valdez and his son Lakin Valdez, artist-in-residence with Teatro Campesino, as well as journalist and activist Maria Hinojosa and spoken word artist and playwright Lemon Andersen. With immigration and the plight of the working class in the news, these sharp and funny plays will provoke illuminating discussion into whether art can change social policy and how protest can also be poetry.
FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE CD RELEASE
Monday, April 13 at 9:30PM
$12
A celebration of The Public Theater's production of The Fortress of Solitude and of Sh-K-Boom and Ghostlight Records' release of the show's Original Cast Album. Members of the cast will perform songs from the musical, which has music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, a book by Itamar Moses, and was conceived and directed by Daniel Aukin, and Music Directed by Kim Grigsby. The Fortress of Solitude is the extraordinary coming-of-age story about 1970s Brooklyn and beyond - of black and white, soul and rap, block parties and blackouts, friendship and betrayal, comic books and 45s.
HOUSE OF LARREON LOOK BOOK BENEFIT, CONCERT & FASHION SHOW
Tuesday, April 14 at 9:30PM
$75 - 250
The House of Larréon Look Book Benefit will feature a star studded House of Larréon fashion show and performances by Bridget Everett, Champagne Jerry, Larry Krone & Family and more. "King of Downtown," Mr. Murray Hill hosts the evening and will run a live auction of special packages donated by Bridget Everett, Neal Medlyn, House of Larréon, Joe's Pub, acclaimed photographer David Levinthal, and Todd Oldham, who claims that "While embracing the mangier side of fashion history [Larry Krone] counters it with truly clever and precise tailoring skills and an intuitive understanding of fabric and drape."
ELISA MONTE DANCE
Wednesday, April 15 at 7:00PM
$20
The program will feature works from Elisa Monte and Tiffany Rea-Fisher of Elisa Monte Dance. The first half of the program will feature excerpts from Monte's fun, enigmatic piece titled, Feu Follet, meaning "crazy fire," referring to the strange marsh lights seen on the Louisiana bayous. The second half of the program features vignettes created by Rea-Fisher and inspired by Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, created specifically for the Joe's Pub stage. Tarantino's sensual and vicious series comes to life in these solos, duets and trios. Don't miss what the New York Times calls "...impressive...appealing...stunning...nonstop intensity..."
ANN LIV YOUNG: ELEKTRA CABARET
Wednesdays, April 15 & 22, May 6, 13 & 20 at 9:30PM
Monday, April 27 at 9:30PM
$15
Ann Liv Young brings the debut of her newest piece to the Joe's Pub stage. Young uses the story and frame of Sophocle's Elektra to explore ideas of personal and social responsibility, gender and family. Her creations are a reflection of her life, inspired by her experiences with her dancers, family, collaborators and passersby. "Whatever her whim or impulse, she lays it out before us without question of purpose or value. There is 100% sincerity and commitment in every part of the work, making each outlandish situation ten times more fascinating because it's not phony, flimsy, or calculated.....Whatever she's doing - and it's hard to pin down - it's truly magnetic," relays Eleanor Bauer of OffOffOff.com.
Feat. Jean Grae, Adelle Waldman, Summer Brennan, Jena Friedman, Elissa Schappell and Akilah Hughes
Thursday, April 16 at 7:00PM
$20
Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire bring their bestselling Australian literary salon, Women of Letters to New York as a monthly event and celebration of a diverse range of strong female talent. In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, join us as Women of Letters pay homage to the most civilized of activities-- letter-writing. New York's best and brightest writers, entertainers and artists perform a reading of a letter they've written to the theme of the evening. Women of Letters will welcome renowned guests to read their own "Letter to My Boiling Point" featuring Jean Grae, Adelle Waldman, Summer Brennan, Jena Friedman, Elissa Schappell and Akilah Hughes. This night will be hosted by Sofia Stephanavic.
Proceeds from Women of Letters shows are donated to charity, with over $500,000 being raised globally to date. NYC events benefit the New York Women's Foundation.
THE EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH SHOW W/ CATIE LAZARUS
Guests: Olympia Dukakis, Betty Halbreich and Cindy Chupack
Thursday, April 16 at 9:30PM
$20
Catie Lazarus hosts The Employee of the Month Show, 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." Her lineup for this installment is legendary actress Olympia Dukakis, Bergdorf Goodman's iconic personal shopper Betty Halbreich and hilarious writer Cindy Chupack (Sex and the City, Modern Family). The night will also feature comedy, live illustrations from Michael Arthur, music from Eric Biondo, Jelly Donut, Shockwave, Robby Jost and more.
THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY CHORUS: A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE
Friday, April 17 at 7:00PM
$20 - 45
The Children's Aid Society Chorus program strives to impart confidence, self-esteem, vocal excellence and team work through the lens of a musical education. The CAS Chorus program engages youth from across the Children's Aid Society community centers and community schools, spanning neighborhoods from the South Bronx and Washington Heights to Greenwich Village, Brooklyn and Harlem. The CAS Chorus has performed at Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Belmont Stakes, Joe's Pub, the Naumberg Bandshell, and the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
NY THEREMIN SOCIETY: THEREMINAGE A TROIS
Friday, April 17 at 9:00PM
$15
Thereminists Dorit Chrysler, Rob Schwimmer and Scott Robinson perform a rendition of Bernard Herrmann's "The Day the Earth Stood Still," as well as their latest solo works and collaborations on Theremin. The NY Theremin Society presents this evening and continues its famed series of showcasing the sonic spectrum of the most underestimated instrument of the 21st century.
AARON CAMPER
Friday, April 17 at 11:30PM
$15 - 20
Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Aaron Camper has shared the stage with Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown and Jill Scott in addition to writing the theme song for the Queen Latifah Show. Camper teamed up with BASSic Black Entertainment (BBE) to release his 2011 mixtape Welcome to My World, which received industry acclaim. Since then, he has yielded singles like "Madness" and the PJ Morton (of Maroon 5) penned "My Heart" that have gained major social media traction.
BETTY 29TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: PT. 2
Saturday, April 18 at 7:00PM
$20 - 40
BETTY, the alt rock/vocal band, has been harmonizing pop politics and passion for almost three decades. Demand was so high for their first anniversary party, they decided to throw another one! From spoken word to a cappella to roof-raising rock, harmony-singing songwriter musicians Alyson Palmer, Elizabeth Ziff, and Amy Ziff perform globally - from NYC to India to Russia to South America and across Europe - to help raise money and awareness for human rights, women's equality, LGBTQI acceptance, and for grassroots organizations working for positive social change. Special guests are to be announced.
BRIDGET BARKAN: DEAR STRANGER, I LOVE YOU
Saturday, April 18 at 9:30PM
$20 - 25
Bridget Barkan returns to the Joe's Pub stage with Dear Stranger, I Love You, the culminating essay in her series of alt-cabaret variety performances. This musical journey finds context in recent struggles in NYC and the global community, and moves from bad love to new love, the dance between free love or committed love, the fight for self-love and the ultimate infinite universal love that can bring us all together. It will be a night of stories, characters, original and cover songs, improvisation, poetry and an array of eclectic guests, who were once strangers but are now friends.
Sunday, April 19 at 7:30PM
$25
Individually recognised figureheads of the Irish tradition, the Máirtín O'Connor Trio has built a reputation for their astounding virtuosity and vitality. Their masterful and modern interpretations redefine one's concept of brilliance. O'Connor (accordion) is one of the most respected and best loved musicians ever to emerge from Ireland. A main musical force behind Riverdance, he's worked with De Dannan, Midnight Well, and Skylark. Máirtín is joined by the astonishing fiddler and multi-all Ireland winner Cathal Hayden (Four Men and a Dog), and Séamie O'Dowd, a defining member of Dervish for over a decade, and master guitarist and brilliant singer and songwriter.
THE MEETING* HOSTED BY JUSTIN SAYRE
Sunday, April 19 at 9:30PM
$20
The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre, the acclaimed comedy/variety show hailed as "rambunctious, uproarious and unpredictable" by The Wall Street Journal, "delicious and delightfully droll" by The New York Post, and "hilarious and sardonic" by The Village Voice, has returned to its downtown roots this year for another season of shows. The Meeting* - known for a signature blend of outrageous comedy, politics, culture and everything in between - was named among the Top nightclub shows of 2013 by Time Out New York, a 2013 MAC Award for Show of the Year and received the 2012 Bistro Award for "Comedy Artistry." The April show will be a celebration of the Indigo Girls. Tracy Stark serves as the show's Music Director with special guests to be announced.
For tickets, go online at joespub.com, call 10AM-7PM daily at 212-967-7555 or visit in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC (Opens daily at 2PM).
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