Isaiah Sheffer News

Symphony Space and WYNC's long running radio series, SELECTED SHORTS, is pleased to announce that nationally acclaimed author and editor, Hannah Tinti, will join the show as Literary Commentator beginning the week of January 15th (contact your local public radio station for specific broadcast dates and times).

Symphony Space and WYNC's long running radio series, SELECTED SHORTS, is pleased to announce that nationally acclaimed author and editor, Hannah Tinti, will join the show as Literary Commentator beginning the week of January 15th (contact your local public radio station for specific broadcast dates and times).

Symphony Space has announced several casting updates for award winning Selected Shorts Performances. Scheduled guests are as follows:

Irish Arts Center is thrilled to present the fourth annual AN IRISH CHRISTMAS, a musical celebration of the holiday season featuring Mick Moloney and special guests. AN IRISH CHRISTMAS takes place from Thursday, December 9 - Sunday, December 19.

Irish Arts Center is thrilled to present the fourth annual AN IRISH CHRISTMAS, a musical celebration of the holiday season featuring Mick Moloney and special guests. AN IRISH CHRISTMAS takes place from Thursday, December 9 - Sunday, December 19.

Irish Arts Center is thrilled to present the fourth annual AN IRISH CHRISTMAS, a musical celebration of the holiday season featuring Mick Moloney and special guests. AN IRISH CHRISTMAS takes place from Thursday, December 9 - Sunday, December 19.

On Saturday, October 16, at 8:00 p.m. at Kingsborough Performing Arts Center, beloved founder of the world-renowned Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer, will take the stage with a program created especially for KPAC.

On Saturday, October 16, at 8:00 p.m. at Kingsborough Performing Arts Center, beloved founder of the world-renowned Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer, will take the stage with a program created especially for KPAC.

Selected Shorts, a celebration of the short story, will be performed live on Long Wharf Theatre's Mainstage Nov. 15, 2010 and March 14, 2011. R.J. Julia Booksellers, located in Madison, is a co-sponsor of the series.

Kingsborough Performing Arts Center's 2010-2011 season of Music, Dance, Theatre, Literature, and Family shows is now on sale and with a new season brings a new executive director and a new vision for Kingsborough's oceanfront performing arts center.

Grammy Award winners Bill Whelan (Riverdance) and Susan McKeown, actress and TONY nominee Kathleen Chalfant and Man Booker nominee Emma Donoghue, are among the featured artists this Fall at the Irish Arts Center.

Symphony Space will present the 29th annual Bloomsday on Broadway, a reading from James Joyce's classic novel Ulysses, on Wednesday, June 16 starting at 7:00 p.m. This year's event, devoted to tracing the parallels between Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey, on which the novel is modeled, features readings from a selection of passages from both works.

The 29th annual celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses will once again follow selected adventures of Joyce's hero, Mr. Leopold Bloom, as he makes his way through his ordinary Dublin day, and back home to his ever-loving Molly.

When Isaiah Sheffer first walked into the dilapidated movie house on Broadway and 95th Street in the late '70s he saw some kind of makeshift boxing ring on the creaky stage.  But what he envisioned was a great center for the arts on the Upper West Side that filled the wide cultural gap between Lincoln Center and Columbia University.

On June 7 at 7:30 p.m., Symphony Space presents a monumental evening of entertainment, 32 years in the making, as the venerable cultural center celebrates co-founder, voce of Selected Shorts and out-going Artistic Director Isaiah Sheffer with Isaiah Fest.

Symphony Space will present the 29th annual Bloomsday on Broadway, a reading from James Joyce's classic novel Ulysses, on Wednesday, June 16 starting at 7:00 p.m. This year's event, devoted to tracing the parallels between Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey, on which the novel is modeled, features readings from a selection of passages from both works.

Two of the most popular public radio series distributed by PRI-This American Life and Selected Shorts-join forces for an evening of surprising stories by contributors to the hit series from Chicago Public Radio on May 26 at 7:00 p.m.

The 29th annual celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses will once again follow selected adventures of Joyce's hero, Mr. Leopold Bloom, as he makes his way through his ordinary Dublin day, and back home to his ever-loving Molly.

As an annual gift to the city, Symphony Space has been presenting its signature music marathons since it opened in 1978. This year Symphony Space's Associate Artistic Director Laura Kaminsky curates a program that includes world and U.S. premieres along with rare works by world-renowned and emerging composers alike from the Soviet Union and Communist-era Eastern Europe.

Two of the most popular public radio series distributed by PRI-This American Life and Selected Shorts-join forces for an evening of surprising stories by contributors to the hit series from Chicago Public Radio on May 26 at 7:00 p.m.