Showgirls
The Public Theatre is currently hosting two inspired, cogent artists from different cultures, whose distance from each other is bridged by Josephine Baker's butt. Upstairs, near the administrative offices, Suzan-Lori Parks, the theatre's playwright-in-residence (and the author of a 1996 essay on Baker, "The Rear End Exists"), works on her language-thick and myth-heavy vision of America, while downstairs, at Joe's Pub…