The Public Theater produces Shakespeare in the Park in Central Park, new theatre at its Astor Place home, and eclectic music at Joe’s Pub.
The Public is an incubator for Broadway, film, and popular culture, that produces generation-defining, award-winning theater.
It’s first production was “Hair,” the iconic musical of the 1960s. “A Chorus Line” was iconic theater of the 1970s.
In 2015, the Public premiered Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton,” the Broadway hit of our generation. 🇵🇷
It’s Shakespeare in the Park productions offer sly commentary on current events.
In a reflection of New York City and America, The Public is an industry leader in diversity. They not only provide opportunities to playwrights and actors of color, they are training a whole new generation, and that generation looks like you ~ wherever you are from.
Latin Culture at The Public Theater
Shakespeare in the Park Goes Mobile with Much Ado About Nothing
MANHATTAN, BROOKLYN, QUEENS, THE BRONX, STATEN ISLAND 🇦🇷 🇲🇽
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Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival 2023 Presents New Ways of Seeing
Wednesday, January 4-22, 2023
PUBLIC THEATER, CHELSEA FACTORY, NYU SKIRBALL CENTER
NoHo, Chelsea, Greenwich Village
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Richard III Shakespeare in the Park stars Danai Gurira
June 21 – July 17, 2022
DELACORTE THEATER
Central Park
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Public Theater News
OCTOBER
African American Musical Theatre
Alicia Keys’ “Hell’s Kitchen” is the World Premiere of her semi-autobiographical musical; directed by Kristoffer Diaz, with choreography by Camille A. Brown; in the Newman Theater at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; from October 24 – January 7, 2024. publictheater.org 🇺🇸
Keys wrote the music and lyrics, but is not in the show.
NOVEMBER
Native American Theatre
In the “Manahatta” New York Premiere by Mary Kathryn Nagle, directed by Laurie Woolery; an Oklahoma Lenape with a Stanford MBA moves to NYC to work in finance just as the 2008 financial crisis hits. In the Lenape homeland, she finds herself in a whole new way. It’s in the Anspacher Theater at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; from November 16 – December 17, 2023. From $40. publictheater.org 🇺🇸
NOVEMBER
Jewish Theatre
In “The Ally” World Premiere by Itamar Moses, directed by Lila Neugebauer; a college professor signs a social justice manifesto and finds himself caught in a web of conflicting agendas; in the Anspacher Theater at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; from February 15 – March 10, 2024. $70. publictheater.org 🇺🇸
MARCH
African American Theatre
In “Sally & Tom” by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, in association with The Guthrie Theater; a play about the relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson gets messy when the play’s writer is cast as Sally and her partner, the director, is cast as Tom. It’s in the Martinson Theater at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; from March 28 – April 28, 2024. $75. publictheater.org 🇺🇸
April
New York Nigerian Theatre
In “Jordan” by Ife Olujobi, directed by Whitney White; a Black receptionist in a mostly white workplace struggles when a new hip Black employee is hired to improve the company culture. It’s in LuEsther Hall at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; from April 11 – May 5, 2024. publictheater.org 🇳🇬
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