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…
