Sandra Bernhard to Return to Joe's Pub for Year-End Residency, 12/26-31

The inimitable Sandra Bernhard returns to Joe's Pub at The Public with her all new show Sandra Bernhard is #blessed for her annual year-end residency, which starts December 26 and leads up to her New Year's Eve spectacle. Performances run nightly from Friday-Tuesday, December 26-30 at 7:30PM and 9:30PM and Wednesday, December 31 at 9:00PM and 11:00PM. Tickets are $60-200 and available at The Public's Box Office (425 Lafayette, NYC).

The new show will contain Bernhard's unique, sharp blend of hysterical insight and outspoken views, with rock-n-roll, cabaret, stand-up and a little burlesque. Sandra Bernhard is #blessed also features Bernhard's band The Flawless Zircons, who perform with her at sold out venues in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and all points in between.

Bernhard is also now guest starring on episodes of Fox TV's Brooklyn Nine-Nine as the character Gina's "eccentric" and "offbeat" mother, Darlene Linetti. Her first episodes aired on November 9 and on December 7, with more episodes likely.

The always entertaining Bernhard has been wowing, and sometimes shocking, audiences since starting her career at LA's famed Comedy Store in the 1970's, going on to become a favorite on the live-show comedy circuit nationally, while also forging a career in film, television and on Broadway.

Sandra Bernhard also returned to television this year, as she guest-starred on ABC Family's original drama series, "Switched at Birth." In a recurring role, Benrhard will played Teresa Lubarsky, a groovy art professor at a local college where Bay (Vanessa Marano) is taking classes. The Peabody Award-winning family drama returned for a third season in January, 2014.

She was also featured in a special guest starring appearance on the hit ABC TV comedy The Neighbors in 2013. As most people are aware, from 1991-1996 she played Nancy Bartlett -- the first openly gay character on a network sitcom -- on Roseanne, and has more recently appeared on the TV Land comedy Hot in Cleveland, on Logo's DTLA, CBS's The New Adventures of Old Christine, FOX TV's American Dad, NBC's Crossing Jordan, The L Word, etc. and has appeared more than 30 times on Late Night with David Letterman.

In addition to her numerous television and film appearances, audiences have raved about her work on the Broadway stage, including the critically acclaimed I'm Still Here... Dammit !, which opened Off-Broadway in 1997, moved to Broadway a year later, and was filmed for an HBO special. In 2006, Bernhard's Everything Bad and Beautiful also opened to rave reviews. Her most recent show, I Love Being Me, Don't You ? played to sold-out crowds for an extended run last summer in Los Angeles. The album version of the show was released on Rooftop Records last fall, and she has since been touring almost non-stop.

For tickets, go online at joespub.com, call 10AM-7PM, daily at 212-967-7555, or in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC. The Public's Box Office window opens daily at 2PM.