BETTY BUCKLEY
with CHRISTIAN JACOB, TONY MARINO, and DAN RIESER

Betty Buckley returns to Joe’s Pub this spring for six shows with her long-time collaborator, 8 time Grammy-nominated pianist/MD Christian Jacob, Tony Marino on bass, and Jamey Haddad on drums. Buckley is a master storyteller that combines her consummate acting skills with extraordinary musicality to create a unique and mesmerizing evening of music.

Buckley, whose career spans theater, film, television and concert halls around the world is also a multi-award winning actor /singer.  She won a Tony Award for Cats and received her second Tony Award nomination for Triumph of Love, an Olivier Award nomination in London for her performance in Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway. She is a 2012 Theater Hall of Fame Inductee,  the 2017 recipient of the Julie Harris Award from The Actor’s Fund for Artistic Achievement and in 2023 is being awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Songbook Association.   

She headlined the First National Tour of the new Broadway Production of Hello, Dolly! in 2018/2019.  Her other Broadway credits include 1776, Pippin, Song And Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Carrie.  She starred in the London production of Dear World in 2013 and Promises, Promises (Evening Standard Nomination).

Off Broadway she has starred in The Old Friends (2014 Drama Desk Nomination), White’s Lies, Juno’s Swans, Edwin Drood for the NYSF and Getting My Act Together And Taking It On The Road.  Regional credits include The Perfectionist, Gypsy, Threepenny Opera, Camino Real, Buffalo Gal, Arsenic And Old Lace and Grey Gardens (2016 Ovation Award Nomination).  

In 2024, she can be seen in Blumhouse Production’s Imaginary distributed by Lionsgate Pictures. Her other film credits include M. Night Shyamalan’s hit film, Split released in January 2017 in which she co-stars with James McAvoy and received a Saturn Award Nomination,  Shyamalan’s The Happening, Brian de Palma’s Carrie, Bruce Beresford’s Tender Mercies, Roman Polanski’s Frantic, Woody Allen’s Another Woman and Lawrence Kasden’s Wyatt Earp.

On TV, she currently has a recurring role on Law & Order: SVU for NBC. Guest star roles include  The Cleaning Lady, Chicago Med, The Leftovers, Getting On, The Pacific and Oz.  She co-starred in Season 3 of Preacher on AMC  and starred for four seasons as Abby on the hit series Eight is Enough.

She recorded the audio play The Vanishing Negative by Aaron Mark for Audible in 2020.  She has received two Emmy nominations.  In 2022, Ms. Buckley released the compilation recording Betty Buckley Sings Stephen Sondheim as a tribute to the late composer.  The recording consists of 24 songs previously recorded throughout her career.  Buckley has recorded 18 CD’s and has received two Grammy nominations.

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Photo credit: John Boal