AMANDA DUARTE: STAYING ALIVE to Play Three Performances at Joe's Pub

Amanda Duarte: Staying Alive, the raw, intensely personal new show written by and starring Duarte, loosely inspired by the film Staying Alive and featuring music from the best-selling soundtrack including songs by The Bee Gees, will play three performances only at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street): Sunday, February 3 at 7 PM, Sunday, March 3 at 7 PM, and Tuesday, April 2 at 7 PM.

When her marriage, her body and her democracy fell apart, "matchlessly incendiary" (Time Out New York), "fiercely intelligent firecracker feminist comedian" (New York Magazine), Duarte turned to divorce, disco, drugs, democratic activism, and domming to put her Humpty together again. Loosely inspired by the perplexing 1983 film, Staying Alive brings Duarte along with The Gay Agenda: Becca Blackwell, Matthew Cleaver, and Jenn Harris and some special guests on the stage of Joe's Pub to romp and ruminate on what it takes for an unabashed feminist to stay alive. The show is directed by Ellie Heyman with music direction by Nicholas C. Williams and dramaturgy by Mike Daisey.

Duarte said, "Beginning in 2016, my entire life fell apart: I got a divorce, I had a tumor removed, my dog died, and democracy as we know it turned into a great garbage fire. At my nadir, I happened to watch the movie Staying Alive - another garbage fire-but featuring these amazing songs buried in a bad story. I realized that was me: a great song, lost in a bad, misogynist story."

Tickets for Amanda Duarte: Staying Alive are on sale now and can be purchased at The Public Theater box office or online at https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/2019/Amanda-Duarte-Staying-Alive/?SiteTheme=JoesPub