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Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp

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Apr 16, 2025 – May 11, 2025

Goddess

Goddess

May 20, 2025 – Jun 1, 2025

Past Productions

Deep Blue Sound

Deep Blue Sound

SUMO 相撲

SUMO 相撲

Gatz

Gatz

Deep History

Deep History

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

Good Bones

Good Bones

Sally & Tom

Sally & Tom

Jordans

Jordans

Grief Hotel

Grief Hotel

The Ally

The Ally

Hell’s Kitchen

Hell’s Kitchen

Manahatta

Manahatta

The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors

Shadow/Land

Shadow/Land

Dark Disabled Stories

The Harder They Come

Where We Belong

A Raisin in the Sun

Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge

Fat Ham

Suffs

The Vagrant Trilogy

The Chinese Lady

Out of Time

Cullud Wattah

The Visitor

Under the Radar: Feos

Andares

Mobile Unit: Measure for Measure

Hamlet

Gently Down the Stream

Public Forum: The Legacy of Radical Protest III

Joan of Arc: Into the Fire

Latin History for Morons

Public Forum: A Conversation on the Legacy of Radical Protest II

Public Forum: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Hundred Days

The Fever

Latin Standards

Lula del Rey

The Bitter Game

Club Diamond

Tiny Beautiful Things

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family

Party People

Public Forum: A Conversation With Cheryl Strayed

Sweat

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Part III – Women of a Certain Age

Plenty

Public Forum: A Conversation on the Legacy of Radical Protest

Hamlet

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Part II – What Did You Expect?

Privacy

Public Forum: A Conversation on Privacy

The Total Bent

Romeo & Juliet

Dry Powder

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Part I – Hungry

Public Studio

Southern Comfort

The Art of Luv (Part 1): Elliot

Tanya Tagaq in Concert with Nanook of the North

I Do Mind Dying – Danse Précarité

The Institute of Memory

Employee of the Year

Escuela

Samedi Détente

Now I’m Fine

Club Diamond

$People Doing Math Live!$

People Doing Math Live!

Under the Radar – 12th Edition

They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain

demonstrating the imaginary body or how i became an ice princess

Bird in the House

Germinal

Eclipsed

The Comedy of Errors

Awake and Sing!

The Sound and the Fury

Macbeth

Grounded

ToasT

Hamilton

Daniel Breaker: Down and Out

Fidelis

Ping Pong

The 24 Hour Plays: A Bennington Alumni Tribute to Nicky Martin

The Cardinals

Ike at Night

Under the Radar Festival

The Triumph of Fame

Timeloss

Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower: the Concert Version

Audio Abramović’

A (radically condensed and expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again — after David Foster Wallace

Cineastas

Straight White Men

Pericles

Public Forum: Talking About Race

Public Studio

…and then you shoot your cousin

A Second Chance

Father Comes Home From the War (Parts 1, 2, and 3)

Feast

blessing the boats: the remix

Sacred Stories

Helen & Edgar

Rodney King

BigMouth

The Record

I Stole Your Dad

JDX – A Public Enemy

The Baroness Is The Future

Eternal

Much Ado About Nothing

The Apple Family

Grasses of a Thousand Colors

Arguendo

All the Faces of the Moon

The Designated Mourner

Jac ‘N Swallow: Come Again

Here Lies Love

Venice

Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)

Neva

Detroit 67

Life and Times: Episodes 1-4

Under the Radar Festival

Blood Play

Hamlet, Prince of Grief

2 Dimensional Life of Her

Zero Cost House

Hollow Roots

Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker

ToasT

C’est du Chinois

Ganesh Versus the Third Reich

Arguendo (Work in Progress)

A 20th Century Abridged Concert of the History of Popular Music

Giant

The Twenty-Seventh Man

Sorry

Wild with Happy

Fun Home

Richard III

February House

Gatz

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

The Total Bent

Super Night Shot

Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good)

Goodbar

El pasado es un animal grotesco / The past is a grotesque animal

Sontag: Reborn

Word Becomes Flesh

Camille O’Sullivan: Feel

Titus Andronicus

King Lear

Love’s Labor’s Lost

Sweet and Sad

New Work Now!

Thieves

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version

The Singing Forest

Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People who Love Them

The Good Negro

Knives and Other Sharp Objects

Tales Of An Urban Indian

County of Kings: The Beautiful Struggle

Under the Radar Festival 2009

Under the Radar 2009

Road Show

Taking Over

Philip Roth in Khartoum

Mandy Patinkin

Let Me Put It This Way: The Straight Talk Plays

Native Theater Festival

Kicking a Dead Horse

Penalties & Interest

Sweet Storm

The Good Negro

Bitter Honey

The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East

The Little Flower of East Orange

The Civilians’ Paris Commune

Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?

Conversations in Tusculum

The Poor Itch

Unconditional

Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles

Susanna Perlman – The Goddess Perlman Heartbreak Show

Disinformation

Generation Jeans

In Spite of Everything

Low: Meditations Trilogy Part 1

Poetics: A Ballet Brut

Regurgitophagy

Terminus

This Place is a Desert

Church

Stoop Stories

How Theater Failed America

Yellow Face

The Brothers Size

Everett Bradley’s Holidelic

Hillary

Live Nude Plays

The Barn Series Festival

Native Theater Festival

The Wooster Group’s Hamlet

365 Days / 365 Plays

A View From 151st Street

Tynan

Sxip Shirey in Sxip’s Hour of Charm

Passing Strange

The Worst of Bogosian: Solos, Speeches & Rants circa 1980 to 2000

NAATF Opening Night Benefit

Pretty Chin Up

Political Subversities

Ann Magnuson

The Hidden Sky

Green Eyes

David Yazbek

Travis Sullivan’s Casual Sextet

Marco Millions (based on lies)

HEEB Storytelling

Daphne Rubin-Vega

Ten

The Secret Life of Ps: A 13PLAYWRIGHTS Cabaret Benefit

Jack Goes Boating

In Darfur

Las Vegas Rhapsody (The Night They Invented Champagne)

Stew

Jackie Hoffman: Jackie with a Z

Pierre Dorge And The New Jungle Orchestra

Daphne Rubin-Vega

Intríngulis

Andy Guthrie

Steve Cuiffo is Lenny Bruce

Sarah Tracey

Scream Out, Louise!

King Lear

Runaways: In Concert

Holcombe Waller: Mihael Sagalovesky and the Tragic Torments of Patty Heart Townes

First Fig

Burlesque-A-Pades

Broadway Sings Waterwell

Joe Iconis

Judy Gold: A Night of Gold-en “Jew”els

Acoustic Delights

Julian Fleisher with special guest Mo Rocca

Talk/Show with Justin Bond

Steve Wallace with Lenora Jaye

Kit and the Widow

Don’t Quit Your Night Job VIII

Sxip Shirey in Sxip’s Hour of Charm

Annekei/Chester Gregory

Things to Ruin: the Songs of Joe Iconis

A Beautiful View

Another You

Invincible Summer

The Brothers Size

Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez: Mundo Niños Family Matinee

Under the Radar 2007

Meow Meow

Two Songs

Epistle to Young Actors

Bella

Famous Puppet Death Scenes

En un Sol Amarillo (Memorias de un Tremblor)

Radio Macbeth

Nine Years

The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac

Weimar New York

Harry Shearer and Judith Owen: This is so not about The Simpsons – American Voyeurs

Liz McComb

Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?

Daphne Rubin-Vega

Burnt Sugar

Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches

Steve Cuiffo is Lenny Bruce

Sandra Bernhard’s New Year’s Weekend

Akim Funk Buddha

Hadassah Gross: Unwrapped

Don’t Quit Your Night Job

The Moonlighters w/ Two Star Symphony

Elegies

Keith Carradine

The Tom Kitt Band

Nativity: A Life Story

BroadwayWorld.com On Ice

Power of Ten

Durango

Elisabeth Withers

Keith Robinson

Cause Celeb!

Shayna Steele

Kiki and Herb

The Breithaupt Brothers and Guests

David Kirshenbaum: Places You’ve Never Been Before

Emergence-See!

Wrecks

Carol Channeling

America Contermporaneo

Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen: South Side Stories

New Work Now!

A Small, Melodramatic Story

The New York Arab-American Comedy Festival (Sneak Preview)

Mary Testa – A Work In Progress

The Nitpicker

Speakeasy

Julia Sweeney and Jill Sobule – The Jill and Julia Show

Kevin Cahoon and Ghetto Cowboy

John Lithgow’s Sunny Side of the Street

Manoel Felciano

Erika Stucky and Roots of Communication

DancenOw/NYC – The Festival (Joe’s Pub)

Louise Setara: Still Waters CD Release

The Moons of Venus: Romancing Marlene Dietrich

Baby Loves Jazz

The Onion Comedy Series

Jenny Scheinman

Trav S.D. — Cold Fire

Jenny Giering: Look For Me

Break of Reality

Peter Dizozza’s The Golf Wars

Oliver Lake Organ Trio with DJ Jahi Sundance

Frank Morgan and Ronnie Mathews

Choro Ensemble featuring Ted Falcon

Archie Bell and The Drells

Daniel Reichard: In Glory Daze

John Brannen / Howie Statland

SSA (Ass Backwards)

Jen Chapin @ Joe’s Pub

Deitrick Haddon / Men of Standard

Flopz n Cutz 3

Virgil Shaw / Jordan Chassan

Taylor Mac

School of the Americas

Greta Gertler

Little Fish

Burlesque-a-Pades

Satellites

Kevin Cahoon and Ghetto Cowboy

Stuff Happens

Joe’s Big Gay Luau

Live From The Front

The Jack Ya Body Solo Dance Series

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Shorts: A Night of Excerpted Works

The Public Theater 2005-2006 Season

Jackie Allen

Jehro

BECOME: The Music of Pasek & Paul

Diedre Rodman + Steve Swallow: Twin Falls CD Release

Dorothy Masuku

Franc D’Ambrosio’s Broadway

Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings

Gangbe Brass Band

Fernando Saunders – I Will Break Your Fall CD release

The Czars / Kurt Wolf’s Lapis Lazuli

The New Standards

Abdullah Chhadeh and Nara

Euan Morton: NewClear

Measure for Pleasure

Lúnasa

Edgeeffect Ensemble

Lesley Gore

Third Annual Cabaret Gourmet

Waterwell Cabaret Benefit

All the Bad Things

Dancenow/NYC: Dance-mOpolitan

Mike Albo presents The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life

The Lights of Piazza

Barb Jungr: Love Me Tender an Unchartered Journey Into the King’s Legacy

Natalie Joy Johnson

Shadows

Kommer

Rehearsal.Hamlet

My Arm

Big 2nd Episode

Sutton Foster: June in January

Jackie Hoffman: Chanukah at Joe’s Pub

Lea DeLaria’s Big Gay Comedy Show

Daphne Rubin-Vega

The 2005 Barn Series Festival

The Barn Series

OH NO YOU DIDN’T, Plays That Do!!

Varla Jean Merman’s I’m Not Paying for This!

See What I Wanna See

The Ruby Sunrise

Reliving Incendiary Moments in Public Theater History

Steven Pasquale

Donna McKechnie: Here’s to the Public! The Music of Joe Papp’s Public Theater

Massacre (Sing to Your Children)

With Love, From Broadway to the Bayou

Prom Songs: A Benefit for the Harvey Milk High School and the Hetrick-Martin Institute

Celebrity Charades

The Music of Frank Wildhorn

Urban Voices: A Political Cabaret

Ethan Lipton: Baby, I Feel the Same Way

Sara Kramer

Klea Blackhurst: Autumn in New York: Vernon Duke’s Broadway

HOWL!’s 3rd Annual All-Star Celebration

Curry, Chick Pea and Collard Greens: An Evening of Comedy From All Over the World

Penny Arcade: The Essential Penny Arcade

Bob Stillman

Flopz

Lillias White: 21st Annual Birthday Party

The Kinsey Sicks: I Wanna Be a Republican

John Tartaglia: AD-LIBerty

Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Adios Pantalones: The Music of William Finn and Michael John LaChiusa

Sam Harris

Imani Uzuri: Her Holy Water: A Black Girl’s Rock Opera

Heeb

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Dancenow/NYC: Dance-mOpolitan

Public Theater 2004-2005 Season

The Leading Men Concert

Lance Horne: The Way Love Goes

Melba Moore: Back for Moore

Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble

Haunted Heart: An Evening With Renée Fleming and Fred Hersch

J.A.P. Chronicles, the Musical

Just Chillin’: An Evening with Norm Lewis

This Is How It Goes

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

The Angelou Songs

Ghetto Superstar (The Man That I Am)

Varla Jean Merman’s Girl With a Pearl Necklace: An Act of Love

The Controversy of Valladolid

Mahogany: Reflections on Vanity

Unexpected Songs: The Lesser Known Tunes of Andrew Lloyd Webber

André De Shields: Black By Popular Demand

Julian Fleisher & Martha Plimpton: Save it for the Stage

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Jackie Hoffman and Kristine Zbornik: Together Again for the First Time

In the Name of Art: Broadway Divas Sing the Music of Lance Horne

Easter Rising

Miracle on Lafayette Street

Sailor’s Song

Looking for Mr. Brady

Susan Egan – Front & Center in Concert

Dirty Tricks

New Work Now!

Richard III

Jackie Hoffman Live at The Public Theater: The Kvetching Continues

The Cast of Hairspray in Concert

Dancenow/NYC: Dance-mOpolitan 10th Anniversary Cabaret Series

110 Stories

BARE’s Back

New German Voices

The Normal Heart

New Work Now Spring Series

Embedded

Isabel Rose in The Single Life

A Celebration of the Actor

Well

Biro

Polygraph Lounge

An Intimate Evening of Song: Aimée Steele and Robert Mannis

The Fairy Tale Project

East Village Opera Company: la Donna C.D. Release Party

Barbara Walsh

Ellen Greene and Christian Klikovits: Torch!

WERISE 5th Anniversary Extravaganza

Toshi Reagon & Big Lovely

Vinicius Cantuária and Marc Ribot

Badi Assad

Choro Ensemble

Daniel Bernard Roumain & DBR’s Mission with guests Lara St. John and DJ Scientific

Screaming Headless Torsos

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Candy Butchers

Kevn Kinney/The Silos

They Might Be Giants’ Quarterly Report

Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber

Bettye LaVette

E.S.T. (The Esbjörn Svensson Trio)

Jamie Cullum

Mark Murphy

Tamango’s <i>Urban Tap</i>

Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd: <i>In What Language?</i> CD Release

Phil Kline: <i>Zippo Songs</i>

Daphne Rubin-Vega

Kim Cea LIVE

Uncle Moon/Bebe Eiffel

The Scott Walker Songbook: David Driver Sings Scott Walker

Isaac Mizrahi

Paul Schwartz: <i>State of Grace Live</i>

Spottiswoode & His Enemies/Paul Cantelon

The Chanteuse Club: Maggie Moore, Kate Pierson, and Deborah Harry

Goapele

Vusi Mahlasela

They Might Be Giants’ Other Thing

Simon Shaheen

Polygraph Lounge

Stew: Something Deeper Than These Changes

GlobalFEST

Raul Midon

The Bad Plus/Gutbucket

Sussan Deyhim: <i>Vocadelics</i>

Lucia Pulido

Jen Chapin Band

Rachelle Garniez & the Fortunate Few and Friends: CD Release

Leon Redbone

Olu Dara

Easy Star All Stars: Dub Side of the Moon, a reinterpretation of the Pink Floyd classic

Rebecca Martin/Kate McGarry

Ghetto Trance

The Du-Tels

The Moonlighters

New Year’s Eve with Eartha Kitt

Public Theater 2003-2004 Season

The Dresden Dolls: Brechtian Punk Cabaret

Melissa Ferrick

2003 Barn Series Festival

The Story

John Epperson: Show Trash

Isabel Rose: Anything But Love

Two Noble Kinsmen

Dutch Heart of Man

Melba Moore

Taking Step Three Thirteen

New Work Now!

Well

As You Like It

Caro’s L.B.J.: A Theatrical Portrait of the 36th President with Robert A. Caro and Friends

Fucking A

Radiant Baby

Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley

People Are Wrong! A Rock Musical

Colin Quinn

Ute Lemper

New Year’s Eve with Eartha Kitt

Boston Marriage

Taking Stock: An Evening of the Music of Jeffrey Stock

Matt Bogart: Simple Song

Rouge: The New Bohemian Cabaret

Al Franken

Jackie Hoffman

Annie Golden’s Velvet Prison

Reflections…Post 9/11 Through the Children’s Eyes

Heavy Hitaz

Eartha Kitt: An Evening with Eartha

Confessing It

Dances with Pitchforks: Confessions of a Farmboy

Daphne Rubin-Vega

Alice Ripley

Natalie Blalock

Old, Angry but Proud

Justin Bond and The Freudian Slippers

Comedians Stand Up for PFLAG

Big Tit: Milk It For All It’s Worth

Rene Risque & The Art Lovers

Keigwin Kabaret w/ Larry Kegwin & Friends: Modern Dance & Burlesque

The Mike Hunt Band: Exile on Main Street

Gavin DeGraw

wAve

Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic

Apollo Heights/Kristin Mainheart

Audra McDonald

Benefit for the Venus Project

Joe’s Pub Benefit

New Work Now!

Ute Lemper

Varla Jean Merman: By Request

Shirley Chickenpants

David Yazbek

Helen

36 Views

Maggie Moore: Are You There God? It’s Me, Ann-Margaret!

Joey McIntyre

Tom Wopat

Cy Coleman and His Trio

BETTY Rules

Galt MacDermot

Lea DeLaria

Everett Bradley

Talk Discount Page

Hazelle Goodman: Color on Edge

Sandra Bernhard: Inshallah

Sondheim Slam

The Ami Goodheart Show

Othello (Public Theater)

Howard Fishman Quartet

Gypsy Cabaret

Kate’s Chink-O-Rama

The Weimarband

Bit Tit-Milk It For All It’s Worth

Urban Griots: Hip Hop Theater Junction, Lisala and Lemon

Mort Sahl

A Manhattan Melody

The Square

The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan

Clive Rowe: UK in NY

Beneath the Scene Spoken Word

Joe’s Pub Benefit

Dolce Vita 2001: You Are Leaving the American Sector

Diamanda Galas

The Blue Flower

Emmet Foster: So…It’s Come to This

Soul Erotica

Alvin Seme: Raw Material: Real Matters

Jimmy Fallon

Yazbek

Black Cat and a Cup of Coffee

Al Franken

Second 2 Last

Tonya Pinkins

Idina Menzel

Jeff Ross: No Tuxedo Required

Lackawanna Blues

Amanda Green

Late Night 2001

3 Pawns

Catherine Malfitano

Kirsten Childs

References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot

8 Is Enough

Madeleine Olnek & Company

Howard Fishman and Heather Woodbury

The BETTY Project

Deb Margolin: Carthieves! Joyrides!

Penny Arcade

Greg Walloch with Epstein and Hassan

The Elementals

Dogeaters

Conversations With…Portable Cultures, Global Identities

Shakespeare’s Villains: A Masterclass in Evil

The Last Lousy Moments of Love: The Songs of Bolcum & Weinstein

Dogeaters: Dat’s Entertainment!

Ann Magnuson–2001: Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today

Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn

Madcap Fever

Sample Me This, Sample Me That

Tracie Morris: Sonic Synthesis

On This Night: A Christmas Concert

Darlene Love: Love for the Holidays

Book of the Dead (Second Avenue)

PARDA 2000: Unveiling South Asian Artistic Queer Expression

Infinite Joy: Songs of William Finn

Kit Marlowe

B.J. Ward’s Stand Up Opera

Squonk

La La LaChiusa

Chink-o-matic

Higher Highs and Lower Lows

The No Black Male Show

A Banging Night Out with Jared “Choclatt” Crawford & Larry Wright

Funny! With Madeleine Olnek & Deb Margolin

Millennium Autopsy

The Girl Who Waters Basil & The Nosy Prince

Hand Shadows/Short Stories

Hunchback

The Far Side of the Moon

Gustaf and His Ensemble

Second Generation Productions

A Y O !

Joe’s Pub

This Is Not Going To Be Pretty

Michael Pemberton with David Campbell

A Y O !

Performance Now!

House Arrest

Tribute to Jerome Moross, A

Alec Mapa

Faith Prince: Leap of Faith

Hamlethh

Opera Goes Public

Space

In The Blood

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