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Isaac Oliver, Greta Gerwig, Flamenco Festival & More Coming Up at Joe's Pub
By: BWW News Desk Feb. 22, 2016
Joe's Pub at The Public has just announced its nightly lineup for February 24 - March 6, 2016. Scroll down for details or visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows!
SVETLANA & THE DELANCEY FIVE / DANNY LIPSITZ & HIS BRASS TACKS
Wednesday, February 24 at 7:00PM
$16
Take an exhilarating "dose of jazz vocals" (Time Out New York), add shining instrumentals and a dash of yesteryear, and then mix in a whole lot of musical dexterity and charm. What you will have is one of New York's most beloved swing bands - Svetlana & the Delancey Five, rippling through the city, "making hot jazz sound cool" (BlueMonkMoods). Lead by "outstanding singer and songwriter" (Wall Street Journal) Svetlana Shmulyian, the band has performed on stages ranging from the premier NYC jazz clubs (Blue Note, B.B. Kings, Iridium, Zinc Bar) to the underground secret speakeasies.
Danny Lipsitz is a bandleader, educator, inventor, saxophone/woodwinds player and composer. Performing in a variety of genres, Lipsitz appears regularly around the world as a sideman for artists like Ronnie Spector, The Avalon Jazz Band, The Hot Sardines, Lucky Chops Brass Band, The Losers Lounge and the Gordon Webster Swing Band. In 2014-2015, Lipsitz was part of the Pub Club artist development program at Joe's Pub at the Public, where he performs regularly. His group, Danny Lipsitz & his Brass Tacks, is a high-energy mishmash of traditional jazz, swing, and early rock and roll. The Brass Tacks debuted at the Thomas Edison House Museum, where they recorded direct to wax cylinder.
Wednesday, February 24 at 9:30PM
$20 Adv / $22 Door
One of the masterminds behind Brazilian band Los Hermanos and founding member of the samba supergroup Orquestra Imperial, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rodrigo Amarante is an inescapable musical figure in his native South American home. Breaking out of the Brazilian market in 2008, alongside friends Fabrizio Moretti and Binki Shapiro, Amarante formed the group Little Joy and the trio released their self-titled debut album which gained critical acclaim in the US and worldwide.
Thursday, February 25 at 7:30PM
$20
Hailed as one of Time Out New York's Top 10 Cabaret Artists (2013), Tori Scott, returns to Joe's Pub with her all new solo show, YOUNG(ISH)- an evening of slurred autobiographical stories filled with lingering regret, poor life choices, and songs written by other people. Don't miss this "soul-baring singer and sharp comedian" (Huffington Post) as she takes you on a shameless journey of her bad decisions and failed attempts to act her age. YOUNG(ISH) is co-written by Scott and her longtime collaborator and enabler Adam Hetrick, directed by Seth Sklar-Heyn and features musical direction by Jesse Kissel.
Thursday, February 25 at 9:30PM
$20 Adv / $25 Door
Ever wonder what it's like to have a dreamy job? Comedian Catie Lazarus did too, so she created an utterly addictive, candid, fun talk show about work. See why The New York Times calls the show "beloved" and BlackBook calls it a "hilarious podcast talk show" and The New Yorker calls, "her line of inquiry is decidedly unorthodox." Her guests for the February 2016 installment of the monthly show are Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, actress Greta Gerwig, actor Michael McKean and musical guest Emel Mathlouthi.
DIONNE MCCLAIN-FREENEY: TAKE ME AS I AM
Friday, February 26 at 7:30PM
$20
Pianist. Songwriter. Composer. Arranger. Choral and Musical Director. Teacher. Singer. Gospel. R & B. Jazz. Pop. Musical Theater. Dionne McClain-Freeney's work spans all that and more. She is the composer and lyricist of the acclaimed musical, This One Girl's Story, nominated for a GLAAD Media award, and winner of Best Ensemble Performance, at the New York Musical Theater Festival. She is also a frequent artist in France's Absolute Gospel Festival, and at some of New York's most loved venues and churches. Dionne will be joined by her bangin' band, The Broad & Her Boys, and some fierce special guests. So, as this self-proclaimed bon vivant would do, get a seat, get a drink and get ready to have a good time!
YOU LIKE ME: AN EVENING OF CLASSIC ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES
Friday, February 26 at 9:30PM
$18
Celebrate Oscar weekend with some of with some of downtown's funniest performers as they reinterpret classic speeches from award-show history, from Meryl Streep to Mariah Carey. No celebrity is safe in this merciless send-up of self-congratulation! You Like Me was created by Michael Schulman & Rachel Shukert and is directed by Peter James Cook with musical direction by Drew Wutke. The evening will feature Cole Escola, Jenn Harris, Jeff Hiller, Jackie Hoffman, Myles Kane, Erin Markey, Emily McNamara, Michael Musto, the O'Debra Twins, Isaac Oliver, Molly Pope, Max Steele, Becky Yamamoto, Varsity Interpretive Dance Squad, and more to be announced!
THE MARTHA GRAHAM CRACKER CABARET
Saturday, February 27 at 7:00PM
$25
This balls-to-the-wall drag cabaret is hosted by Martha Graham Cracker, who is, perhaps, the world's tallest and hairiest drag queen. Backed by a four-piece live band, Martha Graham Cracker, hailed as "The Drag Queen King" by the Philadelphia Inquirer, performs new arrangements and mashups of songs by artists ranging from Prince and Crowded House to Motley Crue and Nina Simone, and a bit of everything in between. The Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret is intended for mature audiences.
Saturday, February 27 at 9:30PM
Wednesday, April 13 at 9:30PM
Friday, June 24 at 7:00PM
$20
Writer/performer Isaac Oliver's debut collection of essays, Intimacy Idiot, was hailed as "hilarious and unsparing" by New York Magazine, "transcendent" by Entertainment Weekly, "surprisingly moving" by Kirkus, and named one of NPR's Best Books of 2015. After two sold-out engagements last year, Oliver returns to Joe's Pub for a spring residency and a glass of pink wine, debuting brand-new stories as well as sharing old favorites. The evening will feature Daniel Loeser and is directed by Jason Eagan.
Sunday, February 28 at 8:00PM
$25
Celebrate Hollywood's most glamorous night in downtown Manhattan with comedian Murray Hill, "the hardest working middle-aged man in show business," as he hosts his annual Oscar Party. The evening will feature impromptu performances, impersonations of the nominated stars, movie spoofs, interviews from the fake red carpet, movie trivia games and lots of prizes - Best and Worst Dressed plus the "Three Sheets to the Wind" Award for most drunk audience member. In what has become an Oscar Night tradition, Hill provides his infamous running commentary during commercial breaks and leaves no star behind with his barbed wit and one-liners. Guests are encouraged to dress as their favorite celebrities for a chance to win prizes!
Monday, February 29 at 7:30PM
$20 Adv / $25 Door
Created by Sammy Wegent, and from the minds behind live comedy juggernauts Mortified & Freestyle Love Supreme, Speechless shows off Silicon Valley's silly side by letting presenters live out their worst nightmare: giving a presentation with absolutely no preparation. The show puts entertainers, entrepreneurs and audience members on the spot with just a PowerPoint deck full of images that they've never seen and a topic determined by a spinning wheel - a TED talk, a new app launch, even a wedding toast. Presenters do their best, while attempting to leave the audience Speechless. Hosted by Brian Fountain, Tony Award-winning Genie: James Monroe Iglehart, TED Spoken Word Poet Sarah Kay, HumorthatWorks founder Andrew Tarvin and the Truth or Dare's Joe Schiappa in an improvised PowerPoint throw down!
Tuesday, March 1 at 7:30PM
$20
Be Steadwell is a singer songwriter from Washington DC. Redefining the love song in a modern context, Steadwell has roots in jazz, acapella and folk, composing a soulful blend of those genres into what she calls pop&soul. When she performs live, Steadwell uses loop pedal vocal layering and beat boxing to compose songs on stage.
CLAFFY WITH OPENER DIDA PELLED
Tuesday, March 1 at 9:30PM
$15
Alexander Claffy wrote, recorded and produced his debut concept album CLAFFY. With the help of engineer/ producer Michael Perez-Cisneros (Kurt Rosenwinkel, Esperanza Spalding and more), he has documented his own true story of love, heartbreak, and the eternal question: were we meant to be? The group introduces many of New York's unheard young talent, including vocal powerhouse Michael Stephenson. Together, they will perform this CLAFFY straight through.
New York-based Israeli guitarist and vocalist Dida Pelled has a particular talent for storytelling. Whether it be a jazz standard, a scorching blues number, an old country ballad, or a heartfelt original.
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, A LOU REED BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE FT. JOE MCGINTY & THE LOSERS LOUNGE
Wednesday, March 2 at 7:00PM & 9:30PM
$25
Joe McGinty and The Losers Lounge are a New York City-based live music collective known for their wildly popular tribute shows to music legends. Started in small Lower East Side clubs in 1993, the Losers have grown into a unique performance experience that combines music, comedy and cabaret. Of all their epic shows, their send-up to Lou Reed in 2014 proved to be the most affecting. The invaluable New York legend had inspired everyone in the group in a personal way, small or large, and those shows became so much more than just performances. Because of that, the Losers have decided to make it an annual event, starting here. Every year, for Reed's birthday, the Losers will take a "Walk on the Wild Side."
Now in their 23rd year, the band currently performs five to six shows every other month at Joe's Pub, as well as three to four shows a year at Lincoln Center, selling out shows regularly and receiving accolades for their creative arrangements and interpretations of classic songs.
Thursdays, March 3, 10 & 17 at 7:00PM
$16
Carol Lipnik - the spellbinding, darkly-humorous singer and songwriter recently called an "ethereal vocal phenomenon" by The New York Times - will mark her debut solo engagement at Joe's Pub. Lipnik, who blends folk music and art song with the classic nightclub tradition, will perform a concert celebrating her latest album Almost Back To Normal with an expanded musical palette featuring strings and percussion. In addition, she will premiere original musical compositions. Her music director and pianist Matt Kanelos will lead the band. The show is produced by TWEED TheaterWorks (Lypsinka) and DAX MGMT (Weimar New York, Joey Arias).
Thursday, March 3 at 9:30PM
$15
When Indianapolis sisters Lily and Madeleine first started making music together, it didn't cross their minds that they could make a living at it. Although they now find themselves in an acclaimed full-fledged career, what got them here has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with the spirit. When the two come together in ecstatic and seamless "blood harmony," it's a sound that continues to haunt long after the songs are sung, leaving an electrical charge behind like a sparkling tracer in the air. Lily & Madeleine however, are equally distinctive as soloists as they are as harmony singers. When they step out individually as vocalists, Lily's warm, smoky alto is the counterpoint to Madeleine's crystalline, bell-like soprano.
COREY GLOVER & FRIENDS PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION W/ THE DOWNTOWN URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL
Friday, March 4 at 7:30PM
$30
Corey Glover, the two-time Grammy Award-winning lead singer of the legendary band Living Colour, performs a special one-night only intimate concert with friends including Dennis Diamond, as part of the Downtown Urban Arts Festival. Together, Glover and Diamond co-wrote the powerful anthem "Silence" from Glover's first solo album Hymns. Considered to be one of the greatest lead singers of our time, the multi-talented Glover is also a screen and stage actor and received acclaim for his role in Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning Best Picture Platoon and headlined as Judas in the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar in 2006.
Friday, March 4 at 9:30PM
$15 Advance / $20 Doors
Bridget Barkan shows her chops with genre-bending shows that employ both her love of song, character building and storytelling. Not only a shape shifter with accents and body language, she is also a vocal chameleon seamlessly riffing her way through jazz, soul, R&B, folk, electronic and traditional musical theater songs. In addition to her own marquee shows and album releases, she performs with the band Slow Knights (Del Marquis, Xavier, Rod Thomas); appears regularly with fellow NYC-based artists Bright Light Bright Light, Lady Rizo, Murray Hill and Joey Arias; and has performed with The Scissor Sisters, Lily Allen, and recorded with legendary house DJ and producer Todd Terry.
Barkan is a member of the inaugural class of Pub Club, the Joe's Pub artist-development program and is a teaching artist with Carnegie Hall's Music Connections.
ROCÌO MÀRQUEZ PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK
Saturday, March 5 at 7:00PM
$25
The art of flamenco and respect for tradition is reinvented by Rocío Márquez, a young artist from Huelva, who already caused a sensation in 2008 after winning the Lámpara Minera at the Festival del Cante de las Minas de la Unión. Marquez has made her name as a leading figure in the world's contemporary flamenco scene intertwining tradition with avant-garde to reclaim the concept of free song as it was advocated by the dearly departed Enrique Morente. She has been performing for more than three years now with Miguel Ángel Cortés as a duo. Their music belongs equally to the past and the future, and that makes it a must see and listen in the present day: always deep, always challenging and accessible, always alive.
DANIEL CASARES & ADAM BEN EZRA PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION W/ FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK
Saturday, March 5 at 9:30PM
$25
Spanish composer and guitarist Daniel Casares and Israeli double-bassist Adam Ben Ezra have created a project that combines their own renowned respective songs and new ones created especially for this occasion. From his home town, Tel Aviv, Ezra's YouTube videos collect millions of views and is regularly invited to perform all around the world, notably supporting the likes of fusion legends such as Richard Bona, Mike Stern and Victor Wooten. Casares has performed world-wide as well, including five consecutive US tours. He has worked with Portuguese fado singer Dulce Pontes, Spanish pop star Alejandro Sanz or flamenco legend José Mercé. This concert will be the world premiere of Casares and Ezra's project.
OSCAR MICHEAUX'S WITHIN OUR GATES FT. LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT BY WILLIAM HOOKER
Sunday, March 6 at 7:00PM
Pre-show Discussion at 6:30PM
$15
Percussionist William Hooker plays live accompaniment soundtrack to a feature presentation of Oscar Micheaux's 1920 film Within Our Gates. Produced, written and directed by Micheaux, Within Our Gates is the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director. William Hooker's body of uninterrupted work beginning in the mid-seventies defines him as one of the most important composers and players in jazz. As a bandleader, Hooker has fielded ensembles in an incredibly diverse array of configurations. Each collaboration has brought a serious investigation of his compositional agenda and the science of the modern drum kit. There will be a pre-show discussion with the artist.
NELIDA TIRADO PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK
Sunday, March 6 at 9:30PM
$25
Through her mother's desires to keep her connected to the roots of her native Bomba and Plena, Nelida Tirado stumbled upon flamenco accidentally. This performance, a passionate reflection of cultural identity, marks a challenging journey between bomba, salsa and flamenco "dancing between cultures." A celebration of her authentic self where music and dance transcend and blur lines of politics, race and identity, the show features original music by Roberto Castellon under musical direction by Gonzalo Grau.
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 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 free Shakespeare in the Park; and the Mobile Shakespeare 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, an expanding initiative that is designed to cultivate new connections and new models of engagement with artists, audiences and the community each year; and audience and artist development initiatives that range from Emerging Writers Group and to the Public Forum series. The Public 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. The Public is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony Award-winning Fun Home and Lin-Manuel Miranda's acclaimed American musical Hamilton. 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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