Part-play, part-concert, the production will run five nights a week at the Bowery Palace in New York beginning in February
After testing the waters earlier this year at New York’s Gramercy Theatre, Jesse Malin is relaunching his Silver Manhattan stage show in full force in February, setting up shop five nights a week at a brand-new venue. The 90-minute production, part-concert and part-play, will take up residency at the Bowery Palace, the Lower East Side club formerly known as Bowery Electric. After the rock room closes at the end of January, it’ll be converted into a 100-seat theater.
“Silver Manhattan is the most personal thing I’ve ever done on stage,” Malin said in a statement. “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 is a fixture of the New York rock, punk, and hardcore scene, as both a solo artist and with his former bands Heart Attack and D Generation. In 2023, the singer suffered a spinal stroke that paralyzed him from the waist down.
He describes Silver Manhattan as “his love letter to New York,” as well as a tale of resilience. “Survival is a creative act,” Malin says.
Performances of the show, written by Malin with Lauren Ludwig, will run Wednesday through Sunday, beginning Feb. 18 and stretching through March 29. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster. Silver Manhattan is produced by Tony-nominated ArKtype / Tommy Kriegsmann and David Bason, and directed by Ellie Heyman. Justin Craig (Stereophonic) and Malin’s longtime bandmate Derek Cruz are music directors.
Malin will release his first book, Almost Grown: A New York Memoir, in April.
