Kelli O’Hara, Michael McKean & More Join Bill Irwin in One-Night-Only Late Night Foolin'

Broadway vet and King Lear star Bill Irwin is teaming up with Doug Skinner to present Late Night Foolin’ at downtown venue Joe’s Pub on November 17.

In Late Night Foolin’, Irwin and Skinner will dust off well-worn bits of clown material, novelty song and Vaudevillian story-telling from their years of working together. They’ll be inviting various friends to join them on stage after the evening’s King Lear performance down the hall at the The Public Theater's Newman Theater (in which Irwin plays the Fool, serving Sam Waterston’s King Lear). Lear company members Kelli O’Hara and Michael McKean are expected to take the stage for some brief musical moments, and the evening will also include a roast of Lear himself, Sam Waterston.

Irwin is a director, writer, actor, actual clown college graduate and alum of The Pickle Family Circus. His Broadway credits include Bye, Bye Birdie, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Largely New York, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, 5-6-7-8 Dance!, Fool Moon and The Goat, or, Who Is Sylvia?.