Jackie Hoffman, Lea DeLaria, New York City Christmas Concert & More Set for Joe's Pub this Holiday Season

Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its holiday highlights (Dec. 15 - 31), featuring performances by John Roberts, 5TH ANNUAL NEW YORK CITY CHRISTMAS, Mike Errico, Jackie Hoffman, THE HOT SARDINES, STARSKY + COX, Lea DeLaria, JUSTIN VIVIan Bond, BABY DEE & LITTLE ANNIE, and Sandra Bernhard.

John Roberts
December 15 at 7:30 PM
$25
John Roberts continuously wows audiences with his live performance skills and original character work in shows across the country and on television. He currently provides the voice of Linda in the Emmy-nominated FOX primetime animated hit Bob's Burgers and has appeared on Good Day NY, MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In April 2009, John performed Jersey Days, a one-man show co-written with Bob Odenkirk and produced by Jim Biederman, at Ars Nova in New York. In 2010, he was part of a national tour with Margaret Cho. John also hosted a monthly show at Comix in New York, which featured guests like David Cross, Kristen Schaal and Eugene Mirman. Recently, John performed to sold out houses at Caroline's Comedy Club and Joe's Pub. As a musician, John formed the band Opti-Grab, which went on to play with such acts as Blondie, Gogol Bordello, Scissor Sisters, and Tom Tom Club. He has worked with Debbie Harry, Jack Pierson, and The Ones in several musical collaborations. John first gained attention as a standout performer and writer on YouTube. His first viral video "The Christmas Tree" was hailed as an instant comedy classic. It was nominated for a broadband Emmy award and was featured on VH1's Best Week Ever, Comedy Central Insider and countless other blogs and websites. The follow up "Jackie & Debra" won The Comedy Smalls award in London, was featured on YouTube, and formed a huge cult following with audiences both young and old. John currently has over 15 million hits on Youtube and counting.

5TH ANNUAL NEW YORK CITY CHRISTMAS:
A Concert to Benefit ASTEP
December 16 at 9:30 PM
$65 Reserved / $100 Premium
Back by popular demand, the evening will feature Broadway's most sought-after talent singing fresh, original approaches-pop, soul, R&B, rock and more-of holiday songs off New York City Christmas the album, available for purchase at the concert. ALL proceeds from tickets to the show and album sales go to supporting ASTEP's mission to connect performing and visual artists with underserved youth in the U.S. and around the world to awaken their imaginations, foster critical thinking, and help them break the cycle of poverty. ASTEP's New York City Christmas album is a collection of holiday songs created by Drama Desk nominated orchestrator, Lynne Shankel (Bare, Altar Boyz, Cry-Baby), and performed by the best musicians and singers from Broadway. Tonight's special guests includeSierra Boggess (THE LITTLE MERMAID, MASTER CLASS), Derrick Cobey (THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS), Chester Gregory (SISTER ACT, CRY-BABY, HAIRSPRAY), David Josefsberg (HONEYMOON IN VEGAS, ALTAR BOYZ),Elizabeth Judd (BARE: THE MUSICAL, SPIDERMAN), Andy Karl (ROCKY, JERSEY BOYS, WICKED, ALTAR BOYZ), Derek Klena (WICKED, DOGFIGHT), Alice Lee (BARE:THE MUSICAL), Telly Leung (GODSPELL, GLEE, ALLEGIANCE), Lindsay Mendez (WICKED, DOGFIGHT), Kenita Miller (Papermill ONCE ON THIS ISLAND), Tony nominee Orfeh (LEGALLY BLONDE, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER), Anya Singleton (recording artist), Michael Tacconi (BARE: THE MUSICAL), Kay Trinidad (ALLEGIANCE), Sally Wilfert (ASSASSINS, MAKE ME A SONG),AureLia Williams (Papermill ONCE ON THIS ISLAND)

Mike Errico: HOLIDAY SHOW
December 19 at 7:00 PM
$20
The Mike Errico Holiday Show is a highlight in a year that has been filled with them. While maintaining a career as a recording artist and producer for TV and film, he has been teaching at Yale University and NYU's Clive Davis School of Recorded Music, where his guests have included Amanda Palmer, Benny Blanco, Jonathan Coulton, Ryan Miller, and others. In keeping with a long-standing Holiday Show tradition, Mike will distribute gifts, known as "Holiday Omens." Recipients will be invited to interpret the Omen's personal significance in the coming year. Hilarious, poignant or cautionary, they have proven to be alarmingly accurate.

Jackie Hoffman: HEBE FOR THE HOLIDAYS
December 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 at 7:30 PM
$30
What happens to a Jewish straight woman on a gay cruise during Rosh Hashanah / Yom Kippur? How does an unwanted aging actress survive in a New York overtaken by billionaires' toddlers? These questions may or may not be answered at Jackie Hoffman's long awaited return to Joe's Pub in a brand new show Heeb for the Holidays. Let Jackie suck the joy out of your holiday season with an evening of anger and song. Directed by Michael Schiralli and Musical Director Bobby Peaco.

THE HOT SARDINES
December 20 at 9:30 PM
SOLD OUT
Take a blustery brass lineup, layer it over a rhythm section led by a Fats Waller-style stride-piano virtuoso, and tie the whole thing together with a magnetic, one-of-the-boys front-woman whose voice recalls another era, and you have The Hot Sardines, an NYC outfit (with a tap dancer) that's been called "consistently electrifying live" (Popmatters). The Sardine sound - wartime Paris via New Orleans, or the other way around - is steeped in the kind of music Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt and Waller used to make: Straight-up, foot-stomping jazz. Pianist-bandleader Evan "Bibs" Palazzo and Paris-born singer Miz Elizabeth (who owe their collaboration to meeting via Craigslist) describe their band as "born in the 1920s, but raised in the '00s," reflecting a philosophy that hot jazz, dixieland and Tin Pan Alley tunes are all pop music, not historical artifact to be handled with kid gloves.

STARSKY + COX: YULE LIVE
December 21 at 9:30 PM
$20
It's a Winter Solstice tradition for our swinging, singing "psychics to the stars" (Vanity Fair) Stella Starsky and Quinn Cox to apparate at Joe's Pub on this darkest of nights to summon the return of light. Only this time they will be dragging some cosmic dirt from The Shadows, revealing true identities, casting cats out of bags and skeletons from closets. In order for you to be reborn, our haute horoscopic heroes must first fix death square in the eye, conjure, and then kill off, a few demons. With divine assists from mincing snowmen, misfit toys, elvish dentists, queer adenoidal reindeer, musical director Matt Ray and Starsky + Cox's signature starry list of special guests. Starsky + Cox are internationally best-selling authors, TV personalities, metaphysicians, and intraplanetary performers who have staged eponymous shows in New York City at Joe's Pub (Public Theater), Ars Nova and The Zipper Factory, and at Harvard's Oberon (American Repertory Theater) in Cambridge. They are authors of Sextrology and Cosmic Coupling and contributors to Glamour, Paris Vogue, Allure, Elle, Cosmopolitan and myriad other publications. Real-life consultants, Starsky + Cox boast many outspoken fans including Leo women J.K. Rowling, Charlize Theron and Tori Amos who wrote a song inspired by them, "Goodbye Pisces", which they often perform. 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" on E! They are founders, with John Cameron Mitchell, of the Afterglow Festival in Provincetown and have produced and appeared with the most divinely talented artists in this or any other galaxy.

Lea DeLaria: F*#K! IT'S CHRISTMAS
December 21 at 11:30 PM
$25
You better watch out, you better not cry you better not pout I'm telling you why, Lea DeLaria (Orange Is The New Black) is coming to town [in] F*#K! ITS CHRISTMAS! It's a whacky way to have some holiday fun. F*#K!! ITS CHRISTMAS is chock full of the great music and outrageous comedy that we have come to expect from Lea. F*#K! ITS CHRISTMAS! with Special Guests: Tony winner Gabriel Ebert (Matilda) Jackie Hoffman (The New Normal, Addams Family) Stephen Wallem (Nurse Jackie) and Maggie Cassella (Because I Said So) So F*#K, you must see F*#K! ITS CHRISTMAS! [Why?] Because, Lea can't wait to stuff your stocking. [#manhavewegotasecretsantaforyou]

JUSTIN VIVIan Bond AND FRIENDS: LET IT SHOW
December 22 and 23 at 9:30 PM
$25
Celebrate the return of the light with Justin VivIan Bond and friends with an evening of Holiday inspired songs and stories. Expect surprises! (Bring your own lumps of coal and watch them turn into diamonds) Keywords: star-struck, babies, booze, ox and ass. Oh Come All Ye Faithful! Special guests include Thomas Bartlett, Amber Martin, Nath Ann Carrera and Brett Every.
BABY DEE & LITTLE ANNIE
December 24 at 9:30 PM
$15
Join us for an evening of depressive snowmen, disgruntled reindeer, incontinent Santas, washed up hermaphrodites and yuletide sobstresses.

Sandra Bernhard: SANDYLAND
December 26, 27, 28, 29 at 7:30 and 9:30 PM
December 30 at 9:30 PM
December 31 at 9:00 and 11:00 PM
In her own one-of-a-kind live show, Sandyland, that sharply blends theatre, rock-n-roll and stand-up with a little burlesque & cabaret, performer Sandra Bernhard returns in her annual holiday show from Thursday, December 26th through New Year's Eve, December 31st. The shows are also in celebration of Joe's Pub 15 Year Anniversary. The actress/singer/comedienne kicked-off her 2013 tour in early January, right after bringing 2012 to a riotous close by performing last year's four night sold-out stint at Manhattan's famed Joe's Pub over New Year's Eve. "Just below the surface, you sense the same roving critical eye that misses nothing" said the New York Times. Sandra's live in-your-face performing combines her hysterical insight, outspoken views and outrageous mouth, along with her band, The Flawless Zircons. Her brilliant unity of hilarious diatribes on the state of modern culture and classic rock attitude burns smart, still having all the raucous energy of youth. 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.