This is our local performing arts space, only two blocks from our new digs. We noticed a sign on one of our walks advertising a one-night-only programme called Selected Shorts hosted by cartoonist Roz Chast. You'll have seen her work in The New Yorker.
In between showing her hilarious cartoons on a giant projection screen we heard a selection of strange sinister and comic short stories such as "Havahart" by Belle Boggs read by Merrit Wever (from "Nurse Jackie").
Anne Meara read "The Witch" by Shirley Jackson (best known for her novel "The Haunting") and Jerry Stiller read a childhood reminiscence by Bruce Jay Friedman called "Wonderful Golden Rule Days".
Interesting things happen at the Symphony Space. I've booked tt into an evening of Sondheim piano arrangements by 30 different modern composers. Wish I could go myself but I shall make do with the Encores revival of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG next Wednesday night!!
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