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After 17 years, Bowery Electric, the East Village venue and club co-owned by Jesse Malin, is closing its doors on January 30. It won’t stay closed for long, though: it’s reopening as the Bowery Palace, a 100-seat theater. Malin’s autobiographical stage show, Silver Manhattan, will play there five nights a week from February 18 through March 29. Tickets are on sale now.
Silver Manhattan was written by Malin and Lauren Ludwin, is produced by ArKtype / Tommy Kriegsmann and David Bason, and directed by Ellie Heyman, with music direction by Justin Craig and Derek Cruz. It runs 90 minutes, and they’re teasing “very special guests” who will make apperances throughout the run. “Silver Manhattan is the most personal thing I’ve ever done on stage,” Malin says. “I want to run it in a smaller theater, and look into the eyes of everyone in the room. I have so much history on the Bowery—I played CBGB’s as a kid, and grew up in the neighborhood. My grandfather sold liquor to the bars up and down the Bowery. It’s nice to go back to the scene of the crime. There are a lot of beautiful ghosts and spirits on this sacred ground.”
Malin suffered a spinal-cord stroke in 2023, and while he’s since returned to the stage, he hasn’t done any major touring. “In 2023, before my accident, I was on this huge tour,” he says. “Since I was 12, that’s how I made my living—traveling from city to city on this pirate ship, with my band, this gang. Out of necessity, I created Silver Manhattan, a way I could bring the world to me. Come into my neighborhood, to my New York. Music has always been the best medicine.”
Silver Manhattan is inspired by Malin’s upcoming memoir, Almost Grown: A New York Memoir, which is out on April 7 via Akashic. Watch a trailer for the stage show below.
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