Symphony Space Makes 2021-22 Season Available for HD Livestreaming
Symphony Space today made livestreaming tickets available for its robust, wide-ranging 2021-22 season, realizing its ambition to emerge from the COVID-19 shutdown as an institution committed to a hybrid model, with live events streamed in real time to audiences straight from Symphony Space’s stages in Manhattan.
BWW Review: THE NEED by Helen Phillips
What lengths would you go to in order to protect your children?
Helen Phillips asks this question and more in her latest novel, THE NEED, which has been long listed for the National Book Awards, was a Goodreads Choice Nominee, and was on several Best of 2019 reading lists. With such an impressive pedigree, this was one worth picking up blind.
MTC Announces Talk Backs Accompanying CONTINUITY
MTC announces a Talkback series following select performances of Continuity, the new play by Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominee Bess Wohl (Small Mouth Sounds, American Hero) and directed by Tony Award nominee Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812).
Great New Writers Set for Pen Parentis Book Salon Tonight
Tonight, March 8th, the Pen Parentis Literary Salon will feature an intimate evening with three writers to watch: Lauren Acampora who wrote a story collection chosen as one of the best books of the year by Amazon, Rumaan Alam, a New York magazine journalist whose highly anticipated debut novel will be out in Spring 2016, and Helen Phillips, whose first novel was a New York Times Notable book of 2015.
Great New Writers Set for Pen Parentis Book Salon in March
On March 8th, the Pen Parentis Literary Salon will feature an intimate evening with three writers to watch: Lauren Acampora who wrote a story collection chosen as one of the best books of the year by Amazon, Rumaan Alam, a New York magazine journalist whose highly anticipated debut novel will be out in Spring 2016, and Helen Phillips, whose first novel was a New York Times Notable book of 2015. All of the presenting novelists are also parents.
Martha Plimpton Joins the Cast of Selected Shorts on April 11
Martha Plimpton joins the cast of Selected Shorts: La Vie Bohème/Boho Brooklyn on Wed, Apr 11 at 7pm.
Martha Plimpton (Raising Hope) reads from Jersey girl Sylvia Beach's memoir about opening Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris in 1919, at Symphony Space's April 11 Selected Shorts. The evening is devoted to literary life in Paris in the 1920s-40s and in Brooklyn today.
THE BIGGEST LOSER: COUPLES Contestants Get Help From Tony Romo 5/11
This week, 'The Biggest Loser: Couples' contestants get encouragement from Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, and helpful advice from two past season winners - Helen Phillips (season seven) and Erik Chopin (season three) - on the episode airing Tuesday, May 11 (8-10 p.m. ET) on NBC.