Arts and Crafts, New Musical from Sandra Bernhard and Justin Bond, to Bow at Joe’s Pub

Comedienne Sandra Bernhard, Scissor Sisters lead singer Jake Shears and downtown drag artist Justin Bond are joining forces on a reading of their new musical Arts and Crafts, according to The New York Times. Gordon Greenberg will direct two performances of the show on March 7 at Joe’s Pub.

Arts and Crafts will feature music by Bond, Bernhard, Lance Horne and Shears, and a book by Bernhard and Bond. The two will also play cousins—one who went from rock chick to born-again Midwest mother, the other from small town gay to urban art world sophisticate—who reunite at a family wedding.

Bond is best known as bitter chanteuse Kiki in lounge duo Kiki & Herb, regulars on the downtown cabaret scene who took their show Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway up to the Great White Way in 2006. Bernhard’s solo show I’m Still Here . . . Damn It! ran on Broadway in 1998, and she most recently appeared off-Broadway in her 2006 one-woman show, Everything Bad and Beautiful. Shears is the co-author of the new musical Tales of the City, adapted from the novels of Armistead Maupin, which will premiere in San Francisco in May.