Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: storytelling

  • This Week @ KGB: We’ll Take Manhattan

    Trust me, you won’t want to miss this month’s installment of Fantastic Fiction at the KGB. The place has been named the best literary venue in New York City by New York Magazine, the Village Voice, and others. And since the 1990s, the Fantastic Fiction Series has been the premier showcase for live readings in the sf/f/h genre.…

  • Mind Games @ Riley’s

    Sometimes the stars align. On the last Tuesday or every month, Story Night takes the stage at Riley’s Pour House, featuring storytellers and performers celebrating the art of story. This month’s theme: Mind Games. Every year, The Throughline Theatre features the works of new, up-and-coming playwrights as part of their regular season at the Grey…

  • From “Starry Nights” to “Life’s Adventures”
    Story Night Rocks!

    In the recent posts “Storytelling Night” and “The Stars Came Out,” I endeavored to cover last week’s “Starry Nights and Celestial Conversations,” which had far more highlights than can be covered in three blog posts. In other words, if you want to get all that Story Night has to offer, you just have to be there. In addition to…

  • The Stars Came Out @ Riley’s:
    Starry Nights, Cosmic Conversations

    Welcome back! This is the second in a series of blogs and podcasts centering on June’s Storytelling Night at Riley’s. If you missed the first round, you can check it out here. Our theme for the event was “Starry Nights, Cosmic Conversations,” and as our story events often do, this one started off with music by Reni…

  • Storytelling Night at Riley’s:
    Starry Nights, Cosmic Conversations

    It was SRO when co-host Diane Turnshek and I presented “Starry Nights and Cosmic Conversations” at Riley’s Pour House last Tuesday. The event featured an impressive roster of storytellers performing a stellar mix of astronomy-related stories. Starting today, I’d like to share some audio highlights from that evening, starting with two exciting spoken-word performers who made their Riley’s debut…

  • Springtime Stories @ Riley’s

    The Anglo-Saxon storytellers marked the ages of their characters in winters. Consider, in Beowulf the hero is said to have lived fifty winters, not fifty years.  Why? Because anyone can survive a summer, but if you live through a winter, it’s time to celebrate. And that’s exactly what our band of 21st-century scops did Tuesday, April 28, when Story…