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Symphony Space
If You’d Only Listen
58 minutes Posted Nov 5, 2026 at 6:00 pm.
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Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about characters who need someone to listen to them. In Jesse Eisenberg’s “If She Ran Into Me Now…” a high school failure wants to prove he did OK—and looks fabulous. It’s read by Santino Fontana. In Weike Wang’s
“A Children’s Story,” read by Conrad Ricamora, a writer tries to please his aging mother with just the right story—for children. And a curling enthusiast shares his passion with his girlfriend’s son in Frank Reilly’s “The Stirling Stone,” read by Chris Sullivan.