This live performance series brings fascinating correspondence, drawn from history and contemporary life, to the stage read ...

In 2013 Jamie Byng, CEO of publisher Canongate, gathered a host of familiar faces including Nick Cave and Gillian Anderson in a disused London church and persuaded them to read a bunch of letters in ...

Benedict Cumberbatch is the first performer to sign up for the New York debut of London’s Letters Live, a stage show that pairs celebrities with actual “literary correspondence” from the likes of ...

Letters Live returns to The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan, for a run of three completely unique back-to-back shows on the May 31, June 1 and June 2, 2025, each enchanting New Yorkers with the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joanne Shurvell writes about travel, food, culture and fashion. Each show always features a completely different array of ...

There was a time when Salman Rushdie was a wanted man — wanted by the supreme leader of Iran, who issued a fatwā against him for having written the 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. Things have cooled ...

Benedict Cumberbatch, Edie Falco, Hugh Dancy and Tony-nominee Tom Hollander were among the famous faces reading famous – or should-be-famous – correspondence from the past at Friday night’s New York ...

The letter was more than 1,000 years old. In 1900, a Daoist monk named Wang Yuanlu unearthed an ancient Buddhist cave library near the town of Dunhuang in western China. When he pried open the sealed ...

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