UPTOWN
AT NIGHT
COMEDY & STORYTELLING ON THE UPPER EAST SIDE
Wednesday, May 6 at 6:00 pm
New York Society Library
53 East 79th Street
$20 per person - Reservations Required
Hors d’oeuvres, desserts & wine will be served
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Uptown at Night presents New York City's most entertaining
storytellers and comedians in a unique old-world setting, The New York Society Library.
Here you’ll find humorists who are literally funny - award-winning writers including Thurber Prize and PEN honorees, New York Times best-selling authors, New Yorker favorites, Saturday Night Live writers, comics to watch, and more.
And while our comedians and storytellers are up to the minute, our beautiful parlor-floor townhouse setting recalls the glow of the city's unrivaled literary past.
It's a one-of-a-kind show, in a very special place. We hope to see you there!
Highlights of previous shows include:
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Tom Perrotta, best-selling novelist with movie adaptations, Election, Little Children, and The Leftovers
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Sloane Crosley, named one of America’s 50 funniest writers and author of Cult Classic
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Alan Zweibel, legendary SNL comedian and Tony Award winner
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Lisa Birnbach, best-selling author of The Official Preppy Handbook
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Henry Alford, New Yorker writer and "investigative humorist"
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Annabelle Gurwitch, actress and author of You're Leaving When?
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Nancy McCabe Kelly and Bruce Jarchow, Second City alums
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Roz Chast, New Yorker cartoonist and author
Sydney LeBlanc
Director
Sydney LeBlanc founded Uptown at Night in 2016, and she produces and hosts the shows. A former design writer, she now writes humorous short stories. Her architecture articles have appeared in The New York Times; her architecture books were published by W.W. Norton; and she was a visiting writer at the American Academy in Rome. Sydney frequently reads her humorous short stories at the Library’s "Live from the Library" events.
