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Listen To Your Mother NYC 2014 Tickets on Sale

On Sunday, May 4th at 5pm at Symphony Space on
the Upper West Side, LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER: NYC, part of a 32-city
series of readings nationwide in celebration of Mother’s Day, will once again
take center stage in the Big Apple. This third annual New York City production
features prominent local writers and performers telling their own tales of
motherhood in all of its complexity, diversity, and humor.



The
show will feature readings from Nadine Baker (Writer), Amy
Carr
(Founder
of ShareOurStories),
Laura Clark (Teacher and Freelance Editor), Logan Fisher (Blogger
at MuddledMother.org), Barbara Herel (Freelance Writer and Improv
Mom blogger at Adoptive Families Circle), Neil Kramer
(Photographer, Screenwriter, Blogger at CitizenOfTheMonth.com), Linda Kuriloff (Actress,
Author of Linda Means To Wait), Ada Maris (Actress,  Nickelodeon's The Brothers Garcia, Nurses, Star Trek:
Enterprise),
Doreen Oliver (Writer, Producer, Performer), Elizabeth
Robinson
(Performer, Blogger at 117-hudson), Lisa Samet (Writer Wake Up Goldilocks and Corporate Coach), Shari
Simpson
(NickMom Writer, Actress, Blogger at Dusty Earth Mother), Kerry Sparks
(Author of  My Name Is Pabst: Baby Names for Nonconformist
Parents of Every Kind
and Agent, Levine Greenberg Literary Agency)
and Lawyer/Mediator Elise Zealand.



 LISTEN
TO YOUR MOTHER: NYC
is being directed by Amy Wilson
(Broadway’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo, off-Broadway’s Mother Load
and The Best of Everything) and Shari Simpson, and produced by Elizabeth
Robinson
and Holly Rosen Fink. The production will donate 10% of
ticket sales to Women’s Prison Association, a non-profit organization
committed to helping women with criminal justice histories see new
possibilities for themselves and their families. Alysia Reiner of Netflix’s Orange
is the New Black
and an alumni of LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER will be
presenting a check to WPA at the end of the performance.

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 This
year’s local sponsors include Jennifer Stachel, Orthodontics, Super Soccer
Stars, Mind Over Matter, Spoonable LLC, Madmen on the Couch, Jennifer Lee
Photography, the upper breast side, Elynn Diamond Studio, Happy Dog Training
and Behavior and Nanny Tax, Inc., as well as returning national sponsor
BlogHer.

 LISTEN
TO YOUR MOTHER NYC
will be performed on Sunday, May 4th at 5pm at Symphony Space at
2537 Broadway at 95th Street in Manhattan. Tickets, priced at $25 in
advance, $30 day of show, can be purchased online at www.ListentoYourMotherShow.com/nyc. You can also check out the
YouTube LTYM channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/LTYMShow.

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