RUNAWAYS (from 2018 Gala performance)
By Elizabeth Swados
Directed by Sam Pinkleton
Choreography by Ani Taj
Creative advisement by Jeanine Tesori
ROAD SHOW (Original Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 2008)
Book by John Weidman
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Featuring: Michael Cerveris, Alex Gemignani, Claybourne Elder
Source: Spotify
Mobile Unit - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (2018)
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Jenny Koons
HAIR (Original Broadway Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 1967)
Book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado
Music by Galt McDermot
Directed by Gerald Freedman
Featuring: James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Melba Moore, Ronnie Dyson, Diane Keaton
Source: Spotify
Miss You Like Hell (2018)
Directed by Lear deBessonet
Book and Lyrics by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Music and Lyrics by Erin McKeown
Featuring: Daphne Rubin-Vega, Gizel Jiménez
The Tempest (2015)
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Michael Greif
Featuring: Sam Waterston, Louis Cancelmi, Francesca Carpanini, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Danny Mastrogiorgio
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (Original Broadway Cast Recording – Premiered at the Delacorte in 1985)
Adapted from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Book and music by Rupert Holmes
Directed by Wilford Leach
Featuring: Betty Buckley, Donna Murphy, Judy Kuhn, Cleo Laine, Robert Grossman, George Rose
Source: Spotify
Fire in Dreamland (2018)
By Rinne Groff
Directed by Marissa Wolf
Featuring: Rebecca Naomi Jones, Kyle Beltran, Enver Gjokaj
SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE (Original Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 2005)
By Michael John LaChiusa
Directed by Ted Sperling
Musical direction by Chris Fenwick
Featuring: Idina Menzel, Mary Testa
Source: Spotify
FUN HOME (Original Broadway Cast – Premiered at The Public in 2012)
Book and lyrics by Lisa Kron
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Directed by Sam Gold
Featuring: Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, Beth Malone, Sydney Lucas
Source: Spotify
publictheater reblogged
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
Pedro Pascal reading Romeo’s balcony monologue from Pablo Neruda’s translation of Romeo & Juliet (Act II, Scene II).
Pedro Pascal really brought it in this week’s #BraveNewShakespeare challenge, there’s no denying. Now it’s your turn. Share your interpretation of Romeo’s speech -- a reading, a dance, a piece of visual art? Whatever inspires you, share it using #BraveNewShakespeare.
Learn more: publictheater.nyc/bns2
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2017)
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Lear deBessonet
Featuring: Annaleigh Ashford, De’Adre Aziza, Kyle Beltran, Danny Burstein, Shalita Grant, Alex Hernandez, Kristine Nielsen, Phylicia Rashad
THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE (Original Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 2014)
Book by Itamar Moses
Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman
Conceived and directed by Daniel Aukin
Based upon the novel by Jonathan Lethem
Featuring: Kyle Beltran, Adam Chanler-Berat, Andre De Shields, Brian Tyree Henry, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Kevin Mambo
Source: Spotify
SOUTHERN COMFORT (2016)
Directed and Conceived by Thomas Caruso
Conceived by Bob Dusold
Book and Lyrics by Dan Collins
Music by Julianne Wick Davis
RUNAWAYS (Original Broadway Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 1978)
Written, composed, and directed by Elizabeth Swados
Featuring: Sheila Gibbs, Bernie Allison, Trini Alvarado, Leonard Brown
Source: Spotify
“The community of people in a room, who don’t live anywhere near each other, don’t know each other’s names, never saw each other, different walks of life, but they all come together and they’re in that space, and for that time, held together with an attention paid to the same thing.” – Phylicia Rashad, Actress
GIANT (Original Cast Recording – Premiered at The Public in 2012)
Book by Sybille Pearson
Music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa
Directed by Michael Greif
Featuring: Brian d’Arcy James, Kate Baldwin, John Dossett, Michele Pawk, Bobby Steggert
Source: Spotify