2. Joe’s Pub Used to be an Experimental Movie Theater

Wall of photos of actors and musicians who have performed at the Public Theater and Joe’s Pub since its founding.

Before Joe’s Pub reopened in 1998 after a massive renovation, the bathroom behind the Pub and Library above it was formerly occupied by The Little Theater, an experimental movie theater that seated 89 and operated in conjunction with the Anthology Film Archive. Designed in a way so that audience members couldn’t see each other while the showing was happening, the Public Theater ultimately nixed the idea, demolished it and brought to life the Joe’s Pub we know today.