Richard Hell’s Performances*At Symphony Space
Richard writes with the following news, which we are pleased to post:
I hardly ever do broadcast emails, but I’m sending this to a few friends and contacts because I’m not sure the signals would reach you otherwise (being that the official ones originate from the Upper West Side), and I want people to come!
I’m curating and hosting a series of events at Symphony Space for which I’ve dragooned one youngish artist per evening to sit still to be interviewed on stage by me before he or she performs. The interviews will be 25-30 minutes and the performances 45-50 minutes (with the exception of Kelly Reichardt’s 1:40 movie–projected via celluloid, not digitally, incidentally). These will happen in a beautifully equipped venue, seating only 168. There will be bonuses—surprise supplements to the interviews and some ace giveaways. The main thing though is that all these people are interesting and talented and this is a unique chance to see them so intimately exposed…
Please attend and spread the word if you can. Any tweets or other social media announcements of the series will be highly appreciated, and please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. The most practical single link to let anyone know about is the series list at Symphony Space, where clicking on the individual event listings will take you to ticket-sales pages: http://www.symphonyspace.org/events/series/180/night-out-with-richard-hell
Thank you!
My New Performance Series
Night Out with Richard Hell
in the Thalia Theater at Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, NYC (southwest corner of 95th St. and Broadway)
* NOTE: ORIGINAL HEADLINE REFERRED TO THESE AS SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCES. SEE COMMENT FOR BETTER DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THESE SHOWS WILL BE LIKE.
Tulip Frenzy 
October 8, 2014 at 2:10 pm
Slight misrepresentation: these are not “spoken word” shows. It’s a series of performance events organized by Hell–on four separate evenings: two different music acts, a poet, and a filmmaker. On each evening, Richard interviews the performer for a half hour before the performer performs for an hour (the filmmaker will screen a movie). The music acts are Lydia Loveless and Donald Cumming (the Virgins).
October 8, 2014 at 2:52 pm
Roy – we have edited the post to make your point clear. JB