The Public Theater Videos

The Public Theater's three Imogens from its Brave New Shakespeare Challenge spoke with Mobile Unit Director Karen Ann Daniels on the relevancy of the Bard and interpreting the work of CYMBELINE.

How are you composing your time during this time of isolation? Join two visionary performers, Helga Davis and Daniel Alexander Jones, as they guide us through a journey of listening, healing, and emerging on the other side as a global community.

Christopher Ryan Grant and Jordan Hilario face off in a challenge with a monologue from THE TEMPEST accompanied by music from Michelle Rodriguez and Salomon Lerner, respectively. Jimmy Smits also performed Angel-Luis Pujante's Spanish translation of a monologue from THE TEMPEST.

Karoline Xu performs Pablo Neruda's Spanish translation of a monologue from ROMEO AND JULIET.

With Stephen Sondheim celebrating his 90th birthday, this episode of Broadway Rewind is very special for BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge because it us to the opening night of the Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman tuner Road Show at The Public Theater. It was directed and designed by John Doyle and starred Michael Cerveris and Alexander Gemignani. Cerveris told Ridge about this new version of the material,  'I saw Bounce in Washington so that was my first exposure to the material, but this really isn't a reexamination of that source material, it's an entirely new musical. So, when I saw the new draft that Stephen and John had done, it was really exciting.'

The Public Theater is inviting the world to use Shakespeare's words to connect with friends, family, and communities, all from their homes. For week three, André Holland & Marsha Stephanie Blake, Dickie Hearts & Alexandria Wailes, and Daniel Molina & Emma Ramos read an excerpt from Romeo and Juliet.

Broadway's Raymond J Lee posted a cover of 'When There Was Me and You' from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series! 

The Original Cast Recording for Soft Power is now available on all digital and streaming services! The album is based on the new musical's recent New York premiere production at The Public Theater.

In the first international Public Works collaboration, more than 150 community members unite from their homes to sing a?oeStill I Will Lovea?? from the Public Theater production of AS YOU LIKE IT, adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery with music and lyrics by Shaina Taub.

The Original Cast Recording for Soft Power is now available on all digital and streaming services! Listen to a clip from the song 'Happy Enough' in the video below!

Playwright David Henry Hwang and Citizen University CEO Eric Liu kick off Public Theater's premiere digital duet with a direct conversation centering on the challenges facing Asian Americans, the importance of bringing activism into art, and our duty to hold our leaders accountable.

The world premiere musical THE VISITOR was originally scheduled to open at The Public Theater tonight, April 15. In honor of Opening Night, The Public has just released a music video of David Hyde Pierce (Walter), Ari'el Stachel (Tarek), and the cast of THE VISITOR performing the song 'Heart In Your Hands.'

The Public Theater is bringing joy to theater-lovers by sharing videos and digital pieces from their past and not-so-distant past! In April 1975, A CHORUS LINE began in the Newman Theater at The Public. Forty years later, the cast of HAMILTON paid tribute to the production and celebrated with the original company. Watch the video below!

The Public Theater has released a video, raising awareness for the 2020 Census.

Inspired by the joyous ways the world community is responding to this challenging time by creating performance, song, conversation, and connection, The Public Theater is inviting the world to use Shakespeare's words to connect with friends, family, and communities, all from their homes.

Inspired by the joyous ways the world community is responding to this challenging time by creating performance, song, conversation, and connection, The Public Theater is inviting the world to use Shakespeare's words to connect with friends, family, and communities, all from their homes. For Week 1 - Phylicia Rashad is reading Sonnet 29.

Inspired by the joyous ways the world community is responding to this challenging time by creating performance, song, conversation, and connection, The Public Theater is inviting the world to use Shakespeare's words to connect with friends, family, and communities, all from their homes.

Broadway star Judy Kuhn has released a short message on behalf of John Doyle's star-studded production of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins at Classic Stage Company.

Stage and screen star Michael C. Hall is now fronting a band! The Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum are made up of Michael plus two musicians he met on the set of Broadway's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Peter Yanowitz and Matt Katz-Bohen.

In 2009, four decades after it originally rocked the world, Hair returned under the direction of Diane Paulus. The production, which started at the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park the previous summer, opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theater on March 31, 2009. The cast included some of Broadway's best, including Cassie Levy, Will Swenson, Sasha Allen, Allison Case, Kacie Sheik, Bryce Ryness, Jay Armstrong Johnson and future Tony winner, Gavin Creel.