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Press Releases
Rachel Pivnick Named Chief Financial Officer
4/16/13
The Public Announces 2013-14 Season
4/9/13
The Public Announces New Community-Based Initiative PUBLIC WORKS
3/20/13
The Public Theater Announces Casting for Venice
3/18/13
Public Theater Annual Gala to Celebrate The Pirates of Penzance and Nora Ephron on June 10
2/26/13
Complete Casting Announced for Richard Foreman's Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)
2/25/13
Free Emerging Writers Group Spotlight Series Begins March 27
2/12/13
Free Shakespeare in the Park Season Announced
1/3/13
Casting Announced for Detroit '67 and Neva at The Public Theater
12/14/12
Acclaimed Musical Giant to Get Cast Recording
12/13/12
New Public Lab Musical Added to Public Theater Spring Season
11/12/12
Public Theater partners with RSC and GableStage on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Antony and Cleopatra
10/23/12
A World I Loved by Mariam C. Said and Vanessa Redgrave To Play Miller Theatre In November
11/8/12
Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival Announces 2013 Line-Up
10/11/12
Complete Casting Announced for The Twenty-Seventh Man
10/4/12
Meryl Streep Donates $1 Million to The Public Theater
10/3/12
American Premiere of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times: Episodes 1-4
9/26/12
Anne Hathaway Supports Public Theater with One-Night-Only Concert
9/20/12
Free Block Party Announced to Celebrate Revitalization
9/11/12
New Musical by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron Added To Public Lab Season
9/10/12
Complete Casting Announced For The New Musical Giant
8/28/12
Public Theater Celebrates Revitalization with Special Programming
8/14/12
Single Tickets On Sale For Fall 2012 Season
8/2/12
The Public Theater Receives $4 Million Gift From The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust
7/30/12
Public Theater Announces Family-Friendly Matinee for Into the Woods
7/23/12
6/28/12
Mobile Shakespeare Unit to Launch Richard III July 16
6/25/12
Complete Casting Announced for The Public's Into the Woods
5/31/12
Denis O'Hare Cast As The Baker in Into The Woods
5/22/12
4/11/12
4/9/12
The Public Theater Announces 2012-2013 Season
4/4/12
Line-Up Announced For The Culture Capital Public Forum
4/3/12
Amy Adams Cast in Into The Woods
4/2/12
The Public Theater to Unveil Revitalized Downtown Home This Fall
3/27/12
Complete Casting for the World Premiere Musical February House
3/21/12
Final Extension for Elevator Repair Service's Critically Acclaimed GATZ
3/8/12
Shakespeare in the Park Announces Casting, Dates
2/27/12
The Public Theater Announces Additional Line-up for Public Sings!
2/17/12
2/2/12
The Public Theater Announces Ethan Lipton's No Place To Go at Joe's Pub
1/3/12
The Public Theater Kicks Off UNDER THE RADAR 2012 On Wednesday, January 4
12/15/11
The Public Theater Presents the World Premiere of The Total Bent
12/5/11
The Public Theater Presents Gob Squad's Kichen (You've Never Had It So Good)
11/7/11
The Public Theater Announces Patrick Willingham as New Executive Director
7/30/09
5/28/09
Casting Announced For The Bacchae
2009-2010 Season Announcement
5/21/09
Casting Announced For Father Comes From The Wars (Parts 1, 8 & 9)
Emerging Writers Group Spotlight Series - June
5/6/09
Post-Show Discussions Announced For Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
5/5/09
Nella Vera Named New Marketing Director
4/30/09
Additional Casting for Shakespeare in the Park Twelfth Night
4/16/09
Why Torture Is Wrong... Extends Through May 10
4/15/09
Casting Announced For Shakespeare in the Park Twelfth Night
4/9/09
David Hare To Present Berlin/Wall At The Public Theater
Why Torture Is Wrong... Extends Through May 3
4/8/09
Casting Announced for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Hosts Post-Show Discussion At The Good Negro
3/31/09
Emerging Writers Group Spotlight Series Begins April 13
3/26/09
Post-Show Discussions For Knives and Other Sharp Objects
3/23/09
Previews For The Singing Forest To Begin Friday, April 10
3/13/09
Casting Complete For Knives and Other Sharp Objects
3/4/09
Complete Casting Announced for THE SINGING FOREST
2/24/09
Free Tuition for Shakespeare Lab 2009!
2/24/09
Summer Gala - June 25, 2009
2/19/09
Staffing Announcement
2/19/09
Post-Show Discussions and Partner Events for TALES OF AN URBAN INDIAN
2/12/09
THE GOOD NEGRO Extends Two Weeks!
2/12/09
Complete 2009 Shakespeare in the Park Line-Up Announced!
2/11/09
Complete Casting Announced for WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM
2/4/09
2009 Emerging Writers Group
2/3/09
Public LAB's TALES OF AN URBAN INDIAN Feb 20 - Mar 15
2/3/09
THE GOOD NEGRO Mar 3 - Apr 5
1/22/09
Public LAB 2009 Schedule
1/22/09
Casting Announced for WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM and THE SINGING FOREST
12/3/08
TAKING OVER Extended Through December 21!
11/25/08
A FREE MAN OF COLOR Postponed
11/18/08
UNDER THE RADAR Jan 7 - Jan 18
11/6/08
MANDY PATINKIN: BACK AT THE PUBLIC! Dec 8 - Dec 21
10/31/08
Casting Announced for THE NATIVE THEATER FESTIVAL
10/28/08
Suzan-Lori Parks Named First Master Writer Chair
10/6/08
Native Theater Festival November 12-15
10/2/08
ROAD SHOW Single Tickets On Sale October 12
9/24/08
TAKING OVER - The Free All City Tour
9/16/08
One-Night-Only Free Reading of THE BREACH 9/22/08
9/16/08
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING On-Sale to General Public 9/19/08
9/15/08
Cast of HAIR to Host “Be-In” in Central Park 9/21/08
9/12/08
HAIR Will Transfer to Broadway This Season
9/4/08
Joe's Pub 10th Anniversary: 10 for the 10th
8/18/08
HAIR Extends Through September 14
8/13/08
Summer ShakeUp at Shakespeare in the Park
8/12/08
Complete Casting and Dates For The New York Premiere of ROAD SHOW (formerly called Bounce)
8/8/08
HAIR Extends Through September 7
8/4/08
Christopher J. Hanke to join the cast of HAIR
7/15/08
Joe's Pub Announces Its 10th Anniversary
6/12/08
The Public Theater Announces 2008-2009 Season
6/10/08
The Public Theater Now Accepting Applications For 2009 Emerging
Writers Group
5/12/08
The Public Theater and Ireland’s Abbey Theatre Present The U.S.
Premiere of KICKING A DEAD HORSE
4/28/08
The Public Theater Announces Final Casting For HAMLET
