Pride Weekend, Tori Scott, Shaina Taub and More Coming Up This Week at Joe's Pub

Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its nightly performances for this week, June 21 - July 2. Scroll down for details!

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JOAN SHELLEY
Wednesday, June 21 at 7:30PM
$15
The stunning, self-titled fourth album from Kentucky singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Shelley reflects her most assured and complete thoughts to date. With lyrics as subtle and sensitive as her peerless voice, her band offers support through restraint and nuance. In eleven songs, this is the sound of Joan Shelley emerging as one of music's most expressive emotional syndicates. Joan Shelley was produced in Chicago by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and created in Wilco's Loft studio. Shelley's music has never been experimental, at least in some bleeding-edge sense of the word. But in their own way, these songs are experimental and risky, built with methods that pushed Shelley out of the comfort zone she's established on a string of records defined by mesmerizing sort of grace and clarity

PAUL BRILL & FRIENDS
Wednesday, June 21 at 9:30PM
$15
Composer/Songwriter/Producer Paul Brill has received three Emmy Award nominations for his film scores and won the first-ever Best Music Award from the International Documentary Association. He collaborated with Rock legends U2 on the HBO film, Burma Soldier, composing a new string arrangement for an acoustic version of their classic song, "Walk On." He scored the hit documentary, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, the Emmy Award-winning Page One: Inside The New York Times, and Christy Turlington Burns' directorial debut, No Woman, No Cry, on which he collaborated with esteemed songwriter Martha Waignwright. Brill, joined by a chamber ensemble and a great number of special appearances by friends and collaborators, will bring his recent film compositions and varied song catalog to life at Joe's Pub, performed live to film projections and live animation sketching by celebrated artist Michael Arthur. Featured performers will include Elizabeth Ziman, Matt Ray, Jamie Leonhart and many others.

Barb Jungr: FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY - THE STING PROJECT
Thursday, June 22 at 7PM
Friday, June 23 at 9:30PM
Tuesday, June 27 at 7PM
Thursday, June 29 at 7PM
$25
British-based jazz cabaret legend Barb Jungr returns to Joe's Pub, her spiritual home in New York City, for the world premiere of a collection of songs related to Sting and The Police. In collaboration with Grammy- and Emmy-winning musical supremo John McDaniel, with whom she created the 5-star reviewed album and show of Beatles material, Come Together, Jungr reveals the beauty and breadth of Sting's extraordinary repertoire. Through a set list that includes "Every Little Thing (She Does Is Magic)," "Until," "Every Breath You Take," "Englishman In New York," "Until," "Fragile" and more, Barb and John explore Sting's work, finding quiet beauty, intensity, politics and passion.

MARCIN MASECKI FT. JERZY ROGIEWICZ: RAGTIME
Friday, June 23 at 7:30PM
$20
Marcin Masecki, one of Poland's most compelling pianists, is joined by drummer Jerzy Rogiewicz in a program of classic Ragtimes and stride-piano hits. The music of James P. Johnson, Fats Waller and Eubie Blake is presented along with their Polish counterparts Henryk Wars and Jerzy Petersburski. Ragtime is one of Masecki's many facets. One could even say that his tremendous versatility has become his trademark. Next year he is releasing his fifth album of classical music (Chopin Nocturnes), he leads several bands of different sizes and genres (the jazz sextet Profesjonalizm, the brass band Polonezy), he performs as soloist with classical orchestras (Arte dei Suonatori, Capella Cracoviensis, Poznan Philharmonia) and works with a great variety of musicians in improvised concerts (Ziv Ravitz, Barry Guy, Tomasz Sta?ko). Since 2010 he was been working closely with Jerzy Rogiewicz, drummer, pianist and composer. Their last collaboration was a production of Górecki's recently discovered oratorio Sanctus Adalbertus.

Tori Scott: MAKING AMERICA GAY AGAIN
Saturday, June 24 at 7PM
$20
Hailed by Provincetown Magazine as "the Bette Midler of the new millennium," belter and bad decision expert Tori Scott returns to Joe's Pub at The Public just in time for Gay Pride with her annual pride show, Making America Gay Again, a shameless journey that celebrates stiff drinks, bad decisions and the gays who enable her. Making America Gay Again is co-written by Scott and her longtime collaborator Adam Hetrick, directed by Seth Sklar-Heyn and features musical direction by Jesse Kissel. Making America Gay Again features the music of Beyonce, Judy Garland, Michael Jackson, and more. The vocals are legit and the stories are, tragically, all true.

Isaac Oliver WON'T STAND FOR THIS
Saturday, June 24 at 9:30PM
$20
Writer/performer Isaac Oliver's debut collection of essays, Intimacy Idiot, was named one of NPR's Best Books of 2015. After last year's sold-out residency, Oliver returns to Joe's Pub to debut brand-new stories as well as share old favorites in a performance featuring Daniel Loeser and directed by Jason Eagan "A rare talent who manages to deftly combine raunchiness, intelligence, hilarity, and heart," says The New Yorker.

DORIAN WOOD
Saturday, June 24 at 11:30PM
$15
Singer/composer Dorian Wood returns to Joe's Pub to perform songs from his emotionally-charged new album, XALÁ. "Armed with a vocal charisma that would befit a preacher and an experimental streak that would make avant-gardists swoon" (WNYC), Dorian is a wunderkind with a headstrong DIY discipline. He has brought his emotionally-charged performances to concert halls, museums, music venues and performance spaces throughout the US, Mexico and Europe, with a voice that channels the skill and ferocity of such auteurs as Scott Walker, Nina Simone and Tom Waits.

Shaina Taub
Monday, June 26 at 7PM
$20
Songwriter/performer Shaina Taub sets up camp this year at Joe's Pub with a monthly concert residency. Each show will be a creative laboratory as she and her band debut new songs. You can also expect lots of selections from Old Hats and Visitors as well as special guests joining along the way.

POLLY GIBBONS
Monday, June 26 at 9:30PM
$20
2017 JAZZ FM Vocalist of the Year nominee Polly Gibbons is one of the most respected and talked about young singer/songwriters of her generation. Following sold out tours in the U.K. opening for George Benson and Gladys Knight, with two critically acclaimed performances at the Royal Albert Hall, she recently toured the USA in celebration of her new album Is It Me ...?, which is garnering rave reviews.

Mark Mulcahy
Tuesday, June 27 at 9:30PM
$22
Mark Mulcahy will tour his new record, The Possum in the Driveway, in selected cities throughout the summer. The shows features the cast of musicians who played on the critically acclaimed record and will be a performance of the album in it's entirety. Coming off nearly three years of touring with Miracle Legion and Polaris, these are the first Mark Mulcahy solo shows since 2014. "I haven't toured as myself in a while," says Mulcahy, "I thought it'd be nice to play just the record and maybe a couple of chestnuts then get back home." The Possum in the Driveway is Mulcahy's fifth solo album, and his first since 2013's Dear Mark J. Mulcahy I Love You.

UNITARD: TARD CORE - THERE ARE NO SAFE WORDS
Wednesday, June 28 at 7PM
Wednesday, July 26 at 7PM
$20
Buckle up your bustier and bite down on your ball-gag because Unitard -- NYC's naughtiest, nastiest, no-holds-barred comic trio -- is back! These arbiters of biting bitchiness and snappy satire are returning to Joe's Pub with Tard Core - There Are No Safe Words, just in time to give our crappy culture the tasteless tongue-lashing it deserves. Made up of The Combined talents of Mike Albo (former New York Times columnist and author of The Underminer, as well as an established solo performer), Nora Burns (of the comedy group The Nellie Olesons, featured in film and TV) and David Ilku (Featured in film and TV, and member of the Dueling Bankheads). "Incredibly vicious and relentlessly hilarious" says Time Out New York.

HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN
Wednesday, June 28 at 9:30PM
$25
Since its beginnings in the late 1990s, Hot Club of Cowtown's star has continued to rise as its reputation for jaw-dropping virtuosity and unforgettable live shows has become the band's global brand. Lauded for its "down-home melodies and exuberant improvisation" (The Times, London), the Hot Club has always woven a combination of seemingly disparate styles together to its own magical effect, setting up camp "at that crossroads where country meets jazz and chases the blues away" (The Independent), and "conscious always that above all else, the music is for dancing and an old-fashioned good time" (The New York Times).

ADRIENNE TRUSCOTT'S ASKING FOR IT: A ONE-LADY RAPE ABOUT COMEDY STARRING HER P AND LITTLE ELSE!
Thursday, June 29 at 9:30PM
$15
Adrienne Truscott brings her multi-award winning show Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her P and Little Else! back to Joe's Pub! 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, p-puppets, mini-skirts, rape whistles, Daniel Tosh, Bill Cosby and enough gin and tonics and bad behavior to get a girl in trouble. All decorated in give-it-to-me make-up this show is light on its feet and easy on the eyes. If she's really asking for it, then we know the 'finale' for this show. Can you make jokes about rape? She plans to, all night long! Even if you tell her to stop.

CANADA'S 150TH BIRTHDAY: NYC ROCKS THE GREAT CANADIAN SONGBOOK
Saturday, July 1 at 7PM and 9:30PM
$25
It's Canada's 150th birthday! (That's the sesquicentennial, eh?) And this right here is the 15th Annual New York Rocks the Great Canadian Songbook at Joe's Pub! Once again produced and emcee'd by Jeff Breithaupt and featuring an all-star line-up of singers backed by Don Breithaupt and the WORKIN' FOR THE WEEKEND HOOSE BAND, there is no Canadian hit song that will be safe from (northern) exposure. Join this musical party's sparkling cast of singers as they lay down unforgettable versions of all your favo(u)rite anthems from the land of the Justins, long Weeknds, Barenaked Ladies and Men Without Hats. From Cohen to Cockburn, Joni to Gino, Lightfoot to Lighthouse, Nelly to Neil, Tegan to Sara, and beyond, you never know whose songs you might hear. This year's all-star line-up includes: Marissa Mulder, Ophira Eisenberg, J'Sun, Carolyn Leonhart, Jamie Leonhart, Jeremy Kushnier, Christina Bianco, Alyson Palmer, Tyley Ross, Greg Naughton, Shelley McPherson, Michael Halling, PJ Griffith, Victoria Lecta Cave, Amy Cervini and The Breithaupt Brothers.

ANDREW SHERON & ALASH: TUVAGRASS
Sunday, July 2 at 7PM
$25
At first glance, the folk musics of Tuva and the United States seem unrelated and incompatible, from opposite sides of the world and in completely different languages. Yet digging just below the surface quickly thaws that cold misconception. Both musical traditions have their foundations in the fiddle and the banjo (igil and doshpuluur in Tuvan), and in both you'll hear stories of lonesome cowboys, beautiful women, fine horses and the mountains, trees and rivers in the lands they call home. Alash Ensemble are masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the ancient art of throat singing, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Andrew Sheron is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. His latest solo release, a full-length cyclical concept album titled The Late Great Bloomer, is the world's first record tracked, mixed and mastered in fully binaural (3D) sound, using novel technology from his time working at Princeton University's 3D Audio and Applied Acoustics Laboratory. His new Small Life will be available July 8th.

KATE BERLANT: COMMUNIKATE
Sunday, July 2 at 9:30PM
$15
Kate Berlant is an LA-based writer/performer who has performed across the US in festivals such as the New York Comedy Festival, Festival Supreme, Treasure Island, Sasquatch, and Moontower. In the television space, Berlant was featured on an episode of Netflix's The Characters. Her performances have been commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and she has been described by The New York Times as a "magnetic improvisational comic" at the forefront of experimental comedy. She has been named by Time Out New York as one of New York City's "Top Three Comics to Watch," as well as one of Comedy Central's "Comics to Watch." Berlant most recently co-wrote and starred in the Vimeo series, 555, directed by Andy DeYoung, and can next be seen in Demetri Martin's feature, Dean, as well as Little Bitches, written and directed by Nick Kreiss, Happy Anniversary, written and directed by JarEd Stern, and James Franco's The Disaster Artist.

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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 Artistic Director 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 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 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 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's work is also seen on tour throughout the U.S. and internationally and in collaborations and co-productions with regional and international theaters. The Public is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony Award-winning acclaimed American musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and in spring 2017, Lynn Nottage's acclaimed new play Sweat. The Public has received 59 Tony Awards, 168 Obie Awards, 53 Drama Desk Awards, 54 Lortel Awards, 32 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 13 New York Drama Critics Awards, and five Pulitzer Prizes.