"PERFORMANCE
NOW! FESTIVAL"
AT JOE'S PUB CELEBRATES
ARTISTS BREAKING NEW GROUND
IN MUSICAL THEATER AND PERFORMANCE
The
annual "Performance Now! Festival" at JOE'S PUB (425 Lafayette
Street, NYC - Tele-Charge: 212-239-6200 - Box Office: 212-539-8778
- http://www.joespub.com/)
celebrates some of the acts that best embody the Pub performer willing
to take risks, to break new artistic ground, to meld art forms and
create work capable of captivating the diverse Joe's Pub crowd. Whether
it's performance art trailblazer Penny Arcade or the up-and-coming
musical theater talent of "8 is Enough," every Festival participant
is exploring the boundaries of his or her creative genre, and utilizing
the unique part-nightclub, part-cabaret setting of Joe's Pub to do
so. The "Performance Now! Festival" also kicks off a Public
Theater-wide spring celebration of new work, culminating in the "New
Work Now!" Festival in May 2001.
Tuesdays,
April 17 & 24 and May 1 8:30 pm - Pamela Sneed: "20 Minutes Was
Forever"
This
new collection of performance and literary work from performer/writer/author
Sneed picks up where last spring's sold-out engagement left off. Through
a high blend of satire, comedy, cultural criticism, and poetic monologue,
Sneed explores and gets to the heart of familial relationships which
explode into issues of race, gender, and sexual identity. Ticket Prices
are $15.
Tuesday,
April 10 8:30 pm - The Elementals featuring Coocoo Handler
In
a return engagement, The Elementals utilize a variety of sketches
and songs to "push the limits of traditional puppetry into uncharted
realms with visual flair and magical technique." They will be accompanied
by Coocoo Handler, a five-piece "post-Freudian jazz cabaret" band.
Ticket Prices are $15.
Wednesday,
April 11 8:30 pm - Greg Walloch with Epstein and Hassan
Greg
Walloch performs his "White Disabled Talent" a hilarious and ironic
commentary on life from the point of view of a twenty-first century
disabled, gay man which has been called "the intersection of comedy
and pathos" (Paper Magazine). Epstein and Hassan (aka The Black and
The Jew) open the show with their 7 Secrets of a Very Successful Marriage,
a blend of stand-up, scene work, and audience participation that explores
the ins and outs of sex, love, and relationships. Ticket Prices are
$12.
Friday,
April 13 8:30 pm & Saturday, April 14 8:30 pm - Penny Arcade
International
performance star, former Andy Warhol "superstar," and downtown performance
legend Penny Arcade makes Joe's Pub her fort for a night, bringing
her special take on sex, reality and politics. Experience the New
York you miss or the New York you missed. Ticket Prices are $15.
Sunday,
April 15 8:30 pm - Deb Margolin: "Carthieves! Joyrides!"
This
playwright/performance artist's most recent play "Three Seconds in
the Key" was commissioned by The Public Theater and enjoyed a workshop
production at PS 122 during the month of February. Opening act is
Kristin Garrison. Ticket Prices are $12.
Monday,
April 16 8:30 pm - "The BETTY Project"
Part
"Josie and The Pussycats," part VH1's "Behind the Music," and part
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," The BETTY Project (a work in progress)
explores the female rock/alternative band BETTY's (Amy and Elizabeth
Ziff and Alyson Palmer) passionate 15-year career in the music business
and the trials and triumphs of their friendship. Ticket Prices are
$10.
Wednesday,
April 18 8:30 pm - Howard Fishman and Heather Woodbury
Returning
pub favorite Fishman presents selections from his new musical theater
project. Woodbury, whose unique performance novels have been commissioned
by The Public Theater, returns to the Pub to share the bill on this
one night only engagement. Ticket Prices are $12.
Friday,
April 20 8:30 pm - Colleen Werthmann and Jen Nails Werthmann,
writer/performer of "Catholic School Girls Rules" and founding member
of the comedy ensemble Elevator Repair Service, returns to the Pub.
Nails bring us back to the trials of sixth grade in her one-woman
play "Lylice." Ticket Prices are $12.
Saturday,
April 21 8:30 pm - Madeleine Olnek & Company: "You Call for the
Fireman" and the "Arsonist Comes."
Two
timely and irreverent comedies by award-winning lesbian playwright
Olnek featuring hilarious performers: Babs Davy (of the Five Lesbian
Brothers), Cynthia Kaplan, Dennis Davis, Lisa Haas, Betsy Farrell,
Susan Ziegler, and others. Ticket Prices are $12.
Monday,
April 23 8:30 pm - "8 is Enough"
8
new musical works originally conceived, created, rehearsed and performed
in less than twenty-four hours at the 2000 Eugene O'Neill Theater
Center's Music Theater Conference. All eight pieces came to life as
part of ongoing collaboration between composers and lyricists Joel
Derfner, Donna DiNovelli, Randall Eng, Ellen Lewis, Curtis Moore,
Mary Murfitt, David Rodwin, and Maryrose Wood. Ticket Prices are $20.
Monday,
April 30 8:30 pm - Kirsten Childs
The
composer/author of "The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin"
performs new material with Daphne Rubin-Vega, LaChanze, Darius deHaas
and Jerry Dixon. Ticket Prices are $15.
Tickets
to events at JOE'S PUB (425 Lafayette Street, NYC - Tele-Charge:
212-239-6200 - Box Office: 212-539-8778 - http://www.joespub.com/),
can be purchased at The Public Theater box office Tuesday-Saturday
from 1:00 pm to 7:30 pm; Sunday and Monday from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Joe's Pub is sponsored, in part, by Philip Morris Companies Inc.
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