Ali Stroker, Jo Lampert to Join Shaina Taub at Joe's Pub This Summer

Songwriter/performer Shaina Taub sets up camp this year at Joe's Pub with her monthly concert residency.

Each show will be a creative laboratory as she and her band debut new songs. Expect lots of selections from Old Hats and Visitors as well as special guests Ali Stroker, Brittain Ashford and Jo Lampert joining in along the way.

Taub is a winner of the Jonathan Larson Grant and the first female recipient of the ASCAP Foundation's Lucille and Jack Yellen Award. She writes tunes for Sesame Street, including Just Like Magic featuring Sara Bareilles. Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald is currently performs Taub's song, The Tale of Bear & Otter on tour. Taub's songs have also been performed by Broadway stars Sutton Foster and Phillipa Soo. Taub's original musical adaptation Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was commissioned by The Public Theater as part of the groundbreaking Public Works initiative and received a critically acclaimed production at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park in which she played the role of Feste. Her original soul-folk opera, The Daughters, was featured in workshop productions at CAP21 Theater Company, and New York University's mainstage season. Taub is currently writing a new musical about Alice Paul and the American women's suffrage movement in the decade leading up to the passage of the 19th amendment.

As a performer, Taub has traveled the world as a vocalist, actor and musician. She starred in the west coast premiere and New York re-mounting of the Signature Theatre's hit production Old Hats, created by Bill Irwin and David Shiner and directed by Tina Landau, featuring Taub's original songs. She earned a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for her portrayal of Princess Mary in the Kazino production of Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 directed by Rachel Chavkin. She sang back-up for Karen O and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in O's psycho-opera, Stop the Virgens at St. Ann's Warehouse and the Sydney Opera House, and arranged/played the songs of Tom Waits in the American Repertory Theater's production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Taub was in the original Off-Broadway cast of Anais Mitchell's Hadestown at New York Theatre Workshop, and is featured on the live cast album. She played the role of Emma Goldman in the Ragtime on Ellis Island concert, and performed in Jeanine Tesori's 2016 Off Center Jamboree.

Find out more at ShainaTaub.com.

IF YOU GO:

Shaina Taub

Wednesday July 19 at 7:00pm with special guests

Ali Stroker of Spring Awakening and Glee

Brittain Ashford of Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet

Friday, August 4 at 7:00pm with special guest

Jo Lampert of Joan of Arc

Tickets On Sale Now at joespub.com, by calling 10AM-7:00PM daily at 212-967-7555, or in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC (Open 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.