Posted: 6/14/22 at 2:25pm
Announcement. Of note, there is only one new musical being presented by the Public next season, after COVID put both The Visitor and Suffs into the same season.
AT A GLANCE:
Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge
Begins September 24
Conceived by Greig Sargeant with Elevator Repair Service
Directed by John Collins
The renowned theater company Elevator Repair Service returns to The Public with BALDWIN AND BUCKLEY AT CAMBRIDGE, a profoundly relevant presentation of the legendary debate between virtuosic writer James Baldwin and father of American conservatism William F. Buckley, Jr.
A Raisin in the Sun
Begins Sepember 27
By Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by Robert O’Hara
Lorraine Hansberry’s A RAISIN IN THE SUN comes to Astor Place this fall in Hansberry's Public Theater debut. Directed by Tony Award nominee Robert O’Hara, this fresh look at a classic proves to be as provocative and powerful today as it was in 1959.
Where We Belong
Begins October 28
By Madeline Sayet
Directed by Mei Ann Teo
Produced with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company In Association with Folger Shakespeare Library
In this intimate and exhilarating solo piece directed by Mei Ann Teo, theatre-maker Madeline Sayet echoes a journey to England braved by Native ancestors in the 1700s following treatise betrayals—and forces us to consider what it means to belong in an increasingly globalized world.
Plays for the Plague Year
Begins November 4
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Niegel Smith
On March 13, 2020, as theaters shut their doors and so many of us went into lockdown, celebrated playwright Suzan-Lori Parks picked up her pen and set out to write a play every day. Performing in the intimate Joe’s Pub and directed by Niegel Smith, PLAYS FOR THE PLAGUE YEAR is at once a personal story of one family's daily lives, as well as a sweeping account of all we faced as a city, a nation, and a global community.
The Harder They Come
Winter 2023
Book by Suzan-Lori Parks
Including Songs by Jimmy Cliff
Based upon the film, produced and directed by Perry Henzell and co-written with Trevor Rhone
Music Supervision by Kenny Seymour
Choreography by Edgar Godineaux
Co-Directed by Sergio Trujillo
Directed by Tony Taccone
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and The Public’s Writer-in-Residence, Suzan-Lori Parks, returns with a new musical adaptation of THE HARDER THEY COME. Directed by Tony Taccone, with co-direction by Sergio Trujillo and choreography by Edgar Godineaux, THE HARDER THEY COME is adapted from 1972 movie produced and directed by Perry Henzell and co-written with Trevor Rhone, and features the music of Jimmy Cliff to tell the story of Ivan, a young singer who arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, eager to become a star.
Dark Disabled Stories
Winter 2023
By Ryan J. Haddad
Directed by Jordan Fein
Produced by The Bushwick Starr Presented by The Public Theater
Ryan J. Haddad’s newest autobiographical play is a series of unforgiving vignettes about the strangers he encounters while navigating a city (and a world) not built for his walker and cerebral palsy. Directed by Jordan Fein, DARK DISABLED STORIES probes implicit ableism and the assumptions we make about people we'll never really know.
Good Bones
Spring 2023
By James Ijames
Directed by Saheem Ali
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames explores gentrification and the growing price of the American dream in his sharp, funny new play directed by The Public’s Associate Artistic Director and Resident Director, Saheem Ali.
shadow/land
Spring 2023
By Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Directed by Candis C. Jones
Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza returns to The Public with a stunning live production of SHADOW/LAND. Magalee is faced with a question of legacy when her daughter, Ruth, coaxes her to sell their Black, family-owned business amid the ongoing devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Candis C. Jones directs this examination of the ongoing effects of disaster, evacuation, displacement, and urban renewal rippling in and beyond New Orleans.
Updated On: 6/14/22 at 02:25 PM
and being performed in Joe's Pub so at least one could, conceivably, get drunk during it?
