For the Reader
Tue, Oct 27 · 7:00 PM
Chad Harbach + Leslie Jamison: The Brightness is a author talk at Strand Book Store.
- Venue
- Strand Book Store
- Quarter of town
- Union Square, Manhattan
- Filed from
- Strand Book Store / Eventbrite
The Daily Dispatch
What’s stirring in the territories this week: bookshop rooms, comedy rooms, lecture halls, and late-night curiosities · Manhattan & Brooklyn
293 telegrams read, the lanterns lit along the rail.
Tue, Oct 27 · 7:00 PM
Chad Harbach + Leslie Jamison: The Brightness is a author talk at Strand Book Store.
Sat, Oct 24 · 4:00 PM
A neuroscience-themed variety show to help you sharpen your bullshit detector.
Sat, Oct 24 · 12:00 PM-4:00 PM
A free neighborhood Halloween gathering around Fort Greene Park's Monument Plaza; the city lists October 25 as the rain date.
Where the terraces are filling as the heat breaks
Seasonal / community
A free neighborhood Halloween gathering around Fort Greene Park's Monument Plaza; the city lists October 25 as the rain date.
Film / screening
An early 2000s romp through the whirlwind that is girlhood and adulthood. And unemployedhood.
Museum / performance
Alison Kuo stages a new performance drawing on Cantonese opera, family migration, and sculptural sets made from Chinatown-sourced materials.
Comedy / variety
A neuroscience-themed variety show to help you sharpen your bullshit detector.
Comedy / variety
What if RM hosted the Tonight Show? Comedy, special guests, music, and more.
Film / live orchestra
The Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra plays live accompaniment to Lon Chaney's silent horror film inside historic Plymouth Church. A separate 9:30 PM performance is also listed.
Live podcast / talk
DRUNK BOLLYWOOD LIVE! is a live podcast / talk at The Bell House.
Drag / burlesque performance
Join us for a wild night of drag, burlesque, & queer performance from Brooklyn’s legendary Switch n’ Play collective!
Comedy / variety
A live drinking game show.
Where the harbor lights come on tomorrow
Caveat performance
A book launch, a party, a show—loaded with inside jokes!
Comedy / variety
A funny and fearless live late-night show that dismantles the media in real time: One headline, scandal, and conspiracy at a time.
Live podcast / talk
Michael Cruz Kayne interviews Rachel Yehuda about the neuroscience of grief and trauma
Further up the river, Monday and onward
Storytelling
True, personal stories about science
Live podcast / talk
Join Pam Grossman and special guests for a live podcast taping to celebrate 10 seasons of The Witch Wave!
Comedy / variety
Comedy meets all your gripes about living in this godforsaken and beautiful city.
Library talk
Just in time for Halloween, enter the shadowy world of gothic Brooklyn, where haunted houses, restless spirits, buried secrets, and unsettling legends speak to far more than a taste for the macabre.
Author talk
Chad Harbach + Leslie Jamison: The Brightness is a author talk at Strand Book Store.
Storytelling
Part karaoke, part confessional. Share a story about a song… then sing the hell out of it.
Author talk
Anthony Roth Costanzo + Michael R. Jackson: Countertenor is a author talk at Strand Book Store.
Caveat performance
Billions, Billionths, Billionaires
Comedy performance
A funny and heartbreaking play about love, loss, and the consequences of not paying your rent on time.
Caveat performance
Join Carnegie for a night of interactive activities and high-energy scientific entertainment with fellow science enthusiasts!
Comedy / variety
ABOLISH EVERYTHING is a fun, dumb comedy debate show! Comedians testify against societal ills and improvisers grill them with questions.
Author talk
Storytime with Marilyn Singer at USQ is a author talk at Strand Book Store.
Comedy / variety
A D&D mixer meets live comedy TTRPG show!
Comedy performance
A funny and heartbreaking play about love, loss, and the consequences of not paying your rent on time.
Comedy performance
Meow! Calling all cat lovers—join us for a purr-fect variety show!
Caveat performance
The cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show performed by the NeckBiters Shadowcast
The ceiling fan turns on a still evening
Nothing answers to that exactly… ask on looser terms, or clear the evening’s card.
