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The Public Theater is an important non-profit, Off-Broadway theater in NoHo, Manhattan. Joe’s Pub is the Public’s music showcase supper club.

In summer, the Public produces Free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. In January, the Public produces the Under the Radar Festival of new international theatre.

Public Theater News

The Under the Radar festival of international theater is at the Public Theater in NoHo for two weeks, Wed-Sun, Jan 12-30. From $25. 🇨🇺🇫🇷🇳🇬

An Evening with an Immigrant, Inua Ellams’ story of changing nations, is at the Under the Radar festival at the Public Theater in NoHo Tue-Thu, Jan 18-20. From $24. 🇳🇬🇬🇧

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The Public Theater (PT)
The Public Theater (PT)

publictheater.org
425 Lafayette St
(between 4th and 8th St)
NoHo, Manhattan
(212) 539-8500

Subways
(4)(6) to Astor Place
(N)(Q)(R)(W) to 8th St
(L) to Third Ave or Union Square


The Public Theater is not just great theatre, it is theatre curated around the big questions of the day. Milestone Broadway hits like “Hair” in 1967 and “Hamilton” in 2015 were first produced at The Public.

The theater was founded by Joseph Papp in 1954 as the Shakespeare Workshop to showcase new playwrights and performers.

It moved to its current home, the former Astor Library in the East Village, in 1967. The very first production was the world-premiere of “Hair” which became an iconic Broadway show of the 1960s.

The Public Theater produces the Under the Radar Festival, a festival of international theater, every January.

Oskar Eustis has been Artistic Director since 2005.

Kenya-born, Resident Director Saheem Ali has been turning theatrical plays into outstanding radio plays during the pandemic. 🇰🇪

Previously

Cullud Wattah, Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s Afr0-surrealist play about the Flint water crisis, premieres Off Broadway at The Public Theater in NoHo, Nov 2 – Dec 5, 2021. From $60. publictheater.org

The Visitor musical, based on Thomas McCarthy’s clever 2007 movie about immigration in NYC, premieres Off Broadway at The Public Theater in NoHo, Oct 7 – Nov 21, 2021. It stars Alysha Deslorieux (Hamilton, Chicago, Once on This Island). From $90. publictheater.org

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