Separate Bloomsdays for Theater and Radio

For nearly three decades theatergoers, literature lovers and admirers of Irish culture have traveled to Symphony Space or tuned in to WBAI on June 16 in order to watch or listen to actors honor the life of James Joyce and interpret his novel “Ulysses,” one of the most celebrated and recondite books of the 20th century. June 16 -- Bloomsday -- is the day in 1904 on which the characters in “Ulysses,” among them Leopold and Molly Bloom, roam the streets of Dublin. The sprawling novel of more than 200,000 words includes inebriated hallucinations, a visit to a brothel and the famous lengthy monologue of erotic musings. The date also marks the actual day that Joyce and his future wife, Nora Barnacle, are thought to have had one of their first formal outings. On Monday night, for the first time since 1981, the theater and radio productions, long the joint effort of the Symphony Space artistic director, Isaiah Sheffer, and Larry Josephson, a producer for WBAI (99.5 FM in New York), will go their separate ways as a result of apprehension about obscenity and government regulation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/arts/16bloo.html?ref=todayspaper
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