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Ticket subscriptions to Selected Shorts are currently available! Click the image at left to get started in our subscription shop.

Selected Shorts are spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers performed by stars of the stage and screen. Whether we present stories around a lively theme, the favorite works of a guest author or a special collaboration with a museum or publication, each Selected Shorts event is a unique night of literature in performance.

Hosted by BD Wong.

Go to the Selected Shorts site for the latest programs and downloads, or listen to the Selected Shorts Podcast in iTunes. See upcoming events below.

 

Selected Shorts: Romance & Other Disasters with Simon Rich and Patricia Marx

Wed, May 22 at 7:30 pm
$28; Member $24; 30 & Under $15

Selected Shorts

Frequent New Yorker contributors and former Saturday Night Live writers join forces for an evening of off the wall, side-splitting tales of infatuation, heartbreak, cave-painting and political protests read by Michael Ian Black (The State, Stella), Anna Chlumsky (Veep), Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds) and Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). Featuring stories by Marx and from Rich's new collection The Last Girlfriend on Earth and Other Stories, which includes the hilarious story "Unprotected," performed at Selected Shorts by Wyatt Cenac earlier this season.  Hosted by BD Wong. The authors will be interviewd by Matthew Love.

 

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This event sponsored in part by Bookforum. A great deal on a Bookforum subscription can be found here.

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Selected Shorts on Tour: BU Theatre, Boston

Sat, Jun 8 at 4 pm and 8 pm
$45, $35 for Huntington subscribers & WGBH Members. Other discounts may apply.

Selected Shorts

Springtime, Sex & Baseball: At this live taping, actors Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, The Office), Denis O'Hare (True Blood, American Horror Story) and Kate Burton (Scandal, The Cherry Orchard at the Huntington) perform powerful, surprising, romantic, and funny stories by comic master Dorothy Parker, baseball writer W.P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe) , and quirky contemporary humorists Aimee Bender and N.M. Kelby.

BUY TICKETS

Huntington Theatre Company
264 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 266-0800

Selected Shorts: Complicated Families

Wed, Jun 12 at 7:30 pm
$28; Member $24; 30 & Under $15

Selected Shorts

We all have one and the grass is always greener. This night closes out the season with some of our favorite classic and new tales of family angst and agita, read by Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie), James Naughton and others. Hosted by BD Wong.

Selected Shorts on Tour: New Milford Public Library, NJ

Thu, Jun 27 at 7:30 pm
Tickets are free but seating is limited, so visit the website to reserve seats go to www.bccls.org

Selected Shorts

The hit public radio series and podcast, Selected Shorts, returns to BCCLS with a program of hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families by Martha McPhee, Shirley Jackson and Dave Eggers. Performed by Broadway actress Mia Dillon, Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker (L.A. Law).

Presented jointly by the Bergen County Cooperative Library System and the New Milford Public Library.

 

New Milford Public Library
200 Dahlia Dr
New Milford, NJ 07646

 



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