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Health & Safety Policy Update

We are excited to welcome you back to The Delacorte Theater for our 60th Anniversary Season of Free Shakespeare in the Park. We ask that you read and understand the following when accessing tickets.

  • Effective April 19, 2022, The Public requires proof of a complete COVID-19 vaccination to enter The Delacorte and attend performances. This policy will continue until further notice.
  • Complete vaccination is fourteen days following a final dose of the Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Moderna, or Astra-Zeneca vaccine.
  • We will accept proof of vaccination via Excelsior Pass, the NYC Covid Safe Pass, a copy or photo of your CDC vaccination card, and/or a copy or photo of an official immunization record from outside the United States.
  • Face masks are encouraged, but not required while attending performances at The Delacorte.
  • Public Theater staff and artists are subject to a mandatory vaccination and booster policy.
  • All policies are subject to change at The Public’s sole discretion and without notice.
  • Those that do not abide by any health and safety protocols will be denied entry or removed from the facility.

Learn more at Safe in the Park 2022.

We look forward to welcoming you to The Public.

At this time, we no longer require proof of vaccination to access the facility, theaters, and restaurant.

  • A face mask is required for all attendees while watching a performance on Tuesday evening, Saturday afternoon, & Sunday afternoon performances.
  • A face mask is not required but strongly encouraged when attending performances on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, & Sunday evenings.
  • All performances in Joe’s Pub do not require a face mask because food and drink are available throughout the show. A face mask is strongly encourage when not actively eating or drinking.

Learn more at HEALTH & SAFETY, NEXT STEPS.

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Artist Statement.

More a performance trio than a band, The HawtPlates make conceptual live vocal works through breaking down and abstracting musical forms that include blues, rock, hip hop, r&b, folk, mantra, gospel, and various vocal traditions from around the world. In hearing them work, you get the sense that the music they make is specific to them as a family and that it can only be made by them.  It is truly a record of their lineage. Pulling from a pantry of sights, sounds, histories, people, and places, they produce audible tonics and “one-pots” hearkening the spirit of the family heirloom recipe.  Their work meditates on how we experience the world on uniquely individual terms yet yearn to connect with others and learn by example.  At the core of their collaboration is the idea that we can talk through, sing through, and work through our issues and strengthen our familial bonds with music as both mediator and framework for healing.

The HawtPlates continue to hone their distinctive style of songwriting and game-like relationship to genre with a series of songs and music videos created over the spring and summer of 2020.  Their first offering, "Make Me Down…" describes a season of loss, distance, and unpredictability using songs that inspire reflection, laughter, courage, survival, and accountability.   While addressing grief and the high stakes of our political climate, this visual EP uses humor and the idea of sharing in order to create a work that is understood as universal and for everyone, but that is born of personal desires and yearnings. The trio sends this collection of songs out as a letter of gratitude to those who have made it through a sleepless summer, screaming their voices raw at the front lines of change.  "Make Me Down..." is for the ones who keep trying to figure out our humanity, inspiring us to act accordingly.  These are songs about bravery in action.  These are songs about daring to rest.  They are songs for atonement. Songs about discovery and remembering, introspection, recognition, and renewal.  Songs for making it through alive.