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Next shows: NYC 31st May-2nd June, get your tickets now 👇

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Hands up, who’s coming to see us in NYC this spring? 🙋‍♀️ Tickets are on sale NOW for three unique shows at The Town Hall 31st May - 2nd June and if you haven’t snapped up your seats yet, don't delay! Be the first to see who takes to the stage this time: thetownhall.org/event/letters-…

Hands up, who’s coming to see us in NYC this spring? 🙋‍♀️

Tickets are on sale NOW for three unique shows at The Town Hall 31st May - 2nd June and if you haven’t snapped up your seats yet, don't delay!

Be the first to see who takes to the stage this time:  thetownhall.org/event/letters-…
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Happy Mother's Day, all. To mark the occasion, here's Louise Brealey reading a magnificent letter British journalist Hannah Woodhead wrote to her mother, inspired by the film Lady Bird: youtu.be/_4gaSK6lZQw

Happy Mother's Day, all.  

To mark the occasion, here's <a href="/louisebrealey/">Louise Brealey</a> reading a magnificent letter British journalist Hannah Woodhead wrote to her mother, inspired by the film Lady Bird: youtu.be/_4gaSK6lZQw
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Don't miss the magic of Letters Live, coming to NYC this May and June! Past shows featured Patti Smith, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lawrence Fishburne, Cynthia Erivo, Rose McGowan and many more. Who will take to the stage this time? ✨ Tickets on sale now: thetownhall.org/event/letters-…

Don't miss the magic of Letters Live, coming to NYC this May and June!

Past shows featured Patti Smith, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lawrence Fishburne, Cynthia Erivo, Rose McGowan and many more. Who will take to the stage this time? ✨

Tickets on sale now: thetownhall.org/event/letters-…
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The show featured in our "Letters!" episode, Letters Live, is coming to NYC, May 31-June 2. From Benedict Cumberbatch to Cynthia Erivo and our very own Ira Glass, in each show a mystery lineup of performers bring letters to life. Tickets on sale now. thetownhall.org/event/letters-…

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'I want you to know that I am sorry and that I tried' It's Earth Day today, and this is possibly the most poignant letter ever performed on a Letters Live stage about the climate crisis. Take it away, Benedict: youtube.com/watch?v=yJvczR…

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Letters Live returns to NYC for not one, not two, but THREE shows, May 31st-June 2nd townhallnyc ✨ Who will take to the stage this time? Past NY shows have featured Benedict Cumberbatch, Patti Smith, Cynthia Erivo + many more! Tickets are selling fast: thetownhall.org/event/letters-…

Letters Live returns to NYC for not one, not two, but THREE shows, May 31st-June 2nd <a href="/townhallnyc/">townhallnyc</a> ✨

Who will take to the stage this time? Past NY shows have featured Benedict Cumberbatch, Patti Smith, Cynthia Erivo + many more!

Tickets are selling fast: thetownhall.org/event/letters-…
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We return to New York City for three back-to-back shows in just TWO WEEKS 🎉 Come and see us at The Town Hall, 31st May - 2nd June. Magical moments like this one, guaranteed. Plus it's all in aid of Choose Love. Get your ticket now: thetownhall.org/event/letters-…

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Still pinching ourselves about this one... Gang, we're excited to announce we're going to Glastonbury Festival! We'll be bringing Letters Live to the Greenpeace UK Fields for a VERY special show. Who's braving the mud with us this year? 🙋‍♀️

Still pinching ourselves about this one...

Gang, we're excited to announce we're going to <a href="/glastonbury/">Glastonbury Festival</a>! We'll be bringing Letters Live to the <a href="/GreenpeaceUK/">Greenpeace UK</a> Fields for a VERY special show.

Who's braving the mud with us this year? 🙋‍♀️
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And we’re off! We’re beautifully played into our first of three shows in NYC by Hohnen Ford, playing Burn My Return Ticket (The Rat Song).

And we’re off! 

We’re beautifully played into our first of three shows in NYC by Hohnen Ford, playing Burn My Return Ticket (The Rat Song).
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‘Strip down, facing me’ Nathan Lane kicks off the show with a letter sent to Massachusetts newspaper The Lowell Sun by a senior citizen after an embarrassing misunderstanding.

‘Strip down, facing me’

Nathan Lane kicks off the show with a letter sent to Massachusetts newspaper The Lowell Sun by a senior citizen after an embarrassing misunderstanding.
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‘You will have to destroy it at once’ Louise Brealey joins us to read painter Vanessa Bell’s very bawdy letter of thanks to economist John Maynard Keynes after he hosted her at his home.

‘You will have to destroy it at once’

<a href="/louisebrealey/">Louise Brealey</a> joins us to read painter Vanessa Bell’s very bawdy letter of thanks to economist John Maynard Keynes after he hosted her at his home.
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‘The life and the work are equally important’ David Byrne joins us to read director André Gregory’s beautiful letter to his friend the photographer Richard Avedon about the work/ life balance.

‘The life and the work are equally important’

David Byrne joins us to read director André Gregory’s beautiful letter to his friend the photographer Richard Avedon about the work/ life balance.
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‘Certain parts of my body, which were still exposed, were trapped’ Jason Biggs joins us to read an eye-watering letter from ‘name withheld’ to Superior Health Insurance company.

‘Certain parts of my body, which were still exposed, were trapped’

Jason Biggs joins us to read an eye-watering letter from ‘name withheld’ to Superior Health Insurance company.
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‘I hope you will never get this letter’ Laura Linney reads war correspondent Martha Gellhorn’s beautiful letter to her mother, written before she left to cover the Vietnam War in Saigon - to be opened only if she didn’t return home.

‘I hope you will never get this letter’

Laura Linney reads war correspondent Martha Gellhorn’s beautiful letter to her mother, written before she left to cover the Vietnam War in Saigon - to be opened only if she didn’t return home.
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‘A very terrible thing happened to me. I was born a girl’ Zoe Chao joins us to read a 1964 letter sent by audacious writer Eve Babitz when she was only 20 and in need of guidance, to the author of Catch-22, Joseph Heller.

‘A very terrible thing happened to me. I was born a girl’

Zoe Chao joins us to read a 1964 letter sent by audacious writer Eve Babitz when she was only 20 and in need of guidance, to the author of Catch-22, Joseph Heller.
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‘See you on the ice’ Sarah Cooper reads a hilarious letter by award-winning comedy writer Sahar Rizvi to someone she felt an immediate kinship with - the only other person of colour at the hockey game

‘See you on the ice’

<a href="/sarahcpr/">Sarah Cooper</a> reads a hilarious letter by award-winning comedy writer Sahar Rizvi to someone she felt an immediate kinship with - the only other person of colour at the hockey game
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‘It is a choice of evils’ Ferdinand Kingsley reads George Orwell’s stirring 1944 letter to a young reader worried about whether the world was drifting irreversibly toward totalitarianism.

‘It is a choice of evils’

Ferdinand Kingsley reads George Orwell’s stirring 1944 letter to a young reader worried about whether the world was drifting irreversibly toward totalitarianism.
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‘Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility’ Nathan Lane reads a section from author Armistead Maupin’s celebrated series of books Tales of the City, in which his protagonist Michael Toliver writes his mother a coming-out letter.

‘Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility’

Nathan Lane reads a section from author Armistead Maupin’s celebrated series of books Tales of the City, in which his protagonist Michael Toliver writes his mother a coming-out letter.
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What. A. Night. We kicked off our NYC shows with a bang yesterday. A huge thank you to our phenomenal cast! Tonight and Monday, we do it all again. There's still time to snap up your ticket and see which stars take to the stage this time: thetownhall.org/event/letters-…

What. A. Night.

We kicked off our NYC shows with a bang yesterday. A huge thank you to our phenomenal cast! 

Tonight and Monday, we do it all again. There's still time to snap up your ticket and see which stars take to the stage this time: thetownhall.org/event/letters-…