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Literature in Performance
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| Writers and performers come together to celebrate literature at Symphony Space, home of the beloved series Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, as well as intimate and interactive Thalia Book Club author conversations and the Thalia Kids’ Book Club, bringing kids 9-12 face to face with writers they love. This season, Stephen King, John Lithgow, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joan Allen, Richard Ford, Edwidge Danticat, David Strathairn, Brian Selznick, Cynthia Nixon and many more come to 95th & Broadway for memorable discussions and spellbinding readings. |
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Ann Patchett and Welty biographer and friend Suzanne Marrs pay tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty, who lived most of her life in Jackson, Mississippi, sharing thoughts on her work and introducing actors to read some of her lesser-known gems. Welty, the author of such beloved stories as "Why I Live at the P.O." and "The Petrified Man" said, "I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within." Marian
Seldes, Sloane Shelton and Kathryn Markey will perform “Lily Daw and the
Three Ladies,” “The Key” and “A Piece of News.” Part of Upper West Fest.
Tickets: $26; Members $24; Day of Show $30
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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Renowned biographers James Atlas (Saul Bellow), Edmund Morris (Theodore Roosevelt) and Stacy Schiff (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) reveal the fascinating, all-absorbing process of researching and writing another person’s life story. Part of Upper West Fest.
Tickets: $21; Members $17; Day of Show $25
Showdate: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 7:30 pm
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Fabulous stories that take place on trains and planes, in cars and berths, about encounters and adventures that would not have been possible without modern transportation, proving that a lot can happen on the way from here to there. Stories by Grace Paley, H.E. Bates and Miranda July will be read by Harris
Yulin, Laura Esterman and an actor to be announced.
Tickets: $26; Members $24; Day of Show $30
Showdate: Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 7:30 pm
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Journalist Eric Etheridge talks about his book of photographs and interviews, for which he tracked down over seventy of the Freedom Riders who were arrested and served prison time for challenging Mississippi state segregation laws in the spring and summer of 1961. Their original mug shots appear in the book alongside Etheridge's striking contemporary portraits. Three of the Freedom Riders featured in the book will take part.
Tickets: $21; Members $17; Day of Show $25
Showdate: Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 7:30 pm
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