The Public Theater at Joe’s Pub
The Music of the Bard: Words & Music of Shakespeare in the Park 1956-1967
The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), NY, United StatesโWe have public libraries. Why not public theaters?โย said Joseph Papp, facing down Robert Moses, New York Cityโs infamous โpower broker,โ when the New York Theater Workshop was just two years old. This year marks the 70th birthday of what became Shakespeare in the Park, which we celebrate with David Amram who, from 1956 to 1967, composed the music for 25 of its productions. Gail Merrifield Papp, Joeโs widow andย theatrical partner for 25 years, will be among the friends joining him for this unique evening.ย
Public/Private: Gail Papp, in conversation with George C Wolfe
The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), NY, United StatesMore than half a century after the Public Theater opened its doors with Hair, Gail Papp returns to the Theater to talk, for the first time, about her vivid and fascinating behind-the scenes memoir Public/Private: My Life with Joe Papp at The Public Theater.
Mazel! Yiddish Classics Reimagined by an Unlikely Trio
The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), NY, United StatesCelebrate Rosh Hashanah in the company of Janis Siegel, John Di Martino and Cantor Daniel Kramer for the first live presentation of their highly acclaimed Covid-lockdown album of Yiddish classics with a backbeat.
Wonderful Town โ Jamie Bernstein and Janis Siegel and friends in a seventieth anniversary celebration of Leonard Bernsteinโs great downtown musical
The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), NY, United StatesA unique and intimate cabaret โ featuring the Maestroโs daughter Jamie Bernstein with Grammy-garlanded Janis Siegel, baritone Michael Kelly, and pianist Yaron Gershovsky, long-time musical director of The Manhattan Transfer. A glorious celebration of songs such as โOhio,โ โPass the Football,โ and โOne Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Manโ โ and the stories behind them.
Janis Siegel: Iโll Take Manhattan
The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), NY, United StatesNine-time Grammy winner and founding member of The Manhattan Transfer,ย Janis Siegel, waxes rhapsodic about her beloved city in song and word. She will be assisted by two master musicians, John di Martino on piano and Boris Koslov on bass. The songs are diverse, romantic, bittersweet, vintage, modern, and full of heart and history, just like New York City itself.
Children of the American Bop (and Mambo) Night!
The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), NY, United StatesJack Kerouac's legendary status as the leading voice of the Beat writers was cemented with his seminal work,ย On the Road. Published in 1957, the same year West Side Story debuted on Broadway and Sputnik launched into space. David Amram and Bobby Sanabria will perform jazz and Latin classics of the 1950s that influenced Kerouac and an entire generation. The show will also include brief readings from On the Road with music, just as Kerouac and Amram pioneered jazz-poetry in New York in 1957.