The Public Theater has announced its upcoming season, which begins October 7 with previews for the world premiere musical The Visitor, originally scheduled for March 2020. With a score by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey and book by Yorkey and Kwame Kwei-Armah, the musical is based on the 2007 film by Tom McCarthy about a lonely middle-aged man whose life changes with a chance encounter with an immigrant couple in post-9/11 New York. Most of the 2020 cast will return, including Tony winners David Hyde Pierce and Ari’el Stachel. Daniel Sullivan directs, with choreography by Lorin Latarro. The show opens November 4 and runs through November 21. Below is Stachel and the cast singing “Heart in Your Hands.”
Performer and writer Daniel Alexander Jones returns to the Public with his alter ego Jomama Jones in the new project Altar No. 1 — Aten, which will unfold in weekly online installments beginning September 22 at aten.life. This meditation on the Egyptian sun god Aten’s heliosphere, from the sun to Pluto, will ultimately result in a concept album of 15 original songs by Jones and Josh Quat. Below are Jones and Rhonda Ross in the video for the project’s first song, “Hymn to Promise,” an ode to the Earth.
In March 2022, the Public will present its other full-length musical offering, the world premiere of Suffs, a new musical about the women’s suffrage movement, with book and score by Shaina Taub. Leigh Silverman directs, with choreography by Raja Feather Kelly. Below is the cast, including Tony winner Nikki M. James and Tony nominees Jenn Colella and Phillipa Soo, singing “How Long.”