Ear candy: two audio recordings featuring Stephen Colbert now available for purchase

Symphony Space, To Kill a Mockingbird

Hi, gang! I don’t know about you, but this has felt like an especially long break to me, and I can’t wait for Stephen to return to the airwaves tomorrow night. In the meantime, if you’re a fan of Stephen’s readings of other people’s literary works, there are two recordings newly available to purchase.

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Bloomsday + 1: Wall Street Journal and NBC NY recaps

Bloomsday photo by Alexandra Cheney

Another Bloomsday has come and gone, and the worldwide family of James Joyce fans continues to flourish.

The Wall Street Journal and NBC NY weigh in the Bloomsday on Broadway celebration, with particular emphasis on the reading done by our friend Stephen Colbert. While we’re all about focusing on Stephen here at NFZ, we’d like to take this opportunity to offer kudos to Symphony Space and all the participants in this year’s Ulysses reading. Well done, all!

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Symphony Space streaming ‘Bloomsday on Broadway’ with Stephen Colbert

Celebrate Bloomsday on Broadway with Symphony Space on June 16th

James Joyce lovers rejoice: Bloomsday is fast approaching!

As has become tradition, Symphony Space is celebrating the occasion by staging a reading of Ulysses excerpts with a powerhouse cast of characters. For poor souls who can’t be there in person, make sure to catch the simulcast on June 16th (7 pm – 1 am).

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Stephen Colbert scheduled for Bloomsday on Broadway XXIX

Happy news for all of those able to get to New York City for Symphony Space’s annual Bloomsday on Broadway celebration: TheaterMania is reporting that Stephen Colbert will be participating in the reading again this year!

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Eye Candy: Ear Candy

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Dear Zoners, does anyone else love to hear Stephen reading from “To Kill a Mockingbird” or the “Bloomsday on Broadway,” or Wigfield or I am America and So can you!? LOL *Headshake* sorry, I thought I could ask that with a straightface! Of course we adore hearing his voice where ever we can get it [...]

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AUDIO: Symphony Space Live features ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

Symphony Space celebration of 'To Kill a Mockinbird' - featuring Stephen Colbert

Symphony Space Live is now streaming the audio from its 50th Anniversary Celebration of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Those of you who were unable to attend this glorious event can now join Isaiah Sheffer, Libba Bray, Kurt Andersen, Oskar Eustis, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mary McDonagh Murphy and, of course, Stephen Colbert in honoring [...]

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Just because

Stephen Colbert - Isaiah Sheffer - Libba Bray -- Symphony Space - To Kill a Mockingbird

It’s been a relatively quiet day for Stephen Colbert news, and I sort of love seeing photos from events I was at (even if they’re not professional photos). So, here’s a photo of part of the panel from the recent To Kill a Mockingbird event at Symphony Space; that’s Isaiah Sheffer on the left and [...]

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Symphony Space celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

To Kill a Mockingbird

I’m writing to you all from the 35th floor of the New Yorker Hotel after a truly fascinating evening of literary discussion, courtesy of the wonderful folks over at Symphony Space. The evening commemorated the 84th birthday of Harper Lee and the 50th anniversary of her beloved novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. I was thrilled [...]

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Stephen Colbert to appear at Symphony Space’s “Isaiah Fest”

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What fantastic news for both Colbert fans and Symphony Space supporters – Stephen is appearing in *another* Symphony Space event this summer! From the TheaterMania web site: Stephen Colbert, Jane Curtin, Jacques D’Amboise, Carmen De Lavallade, Fionnula Flanagan, Larry Keith, Stephen Lang, Jay Leonhardt, Malachy McCourt, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lanny Meyers, Donna Murphy, James Naughton, [...]

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Stephen Colbert joins Symphony Space ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 50th Anniversary Celebration

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Oh my goodness! Symphony Space has announced that Stephen Colbert will be participating in the Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration! You guys, this sounds amazing. We know that Stephen’s a wonderful reader — consider his readings of “The Lie“, “The Veldt” or in previous Bloomsday celebrations — and we know that [...]

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