Selected Shorts Tour Dates
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Monday, March 1, 2010 at 7:30 pm
A Touch of Magic
Host Isaiah Sheffer, Sonia Manzano and Michael Cerveris perform stories with a magical twist by Ray Bradbury, Andrew Lam, Isabel Allende and Saki.
Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
Potter Rose Performance Hall
AT&T Performing Arts Center
2400 Flora Street, Dallas, Texas 75201
Dallas, TX 75201
Phone: 214.922.1818
Presented by the Dallas Museum of Art
Tickets: $37 Full / $32 Reduced / $15 Students
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Actors Joe Morton (City of Hope, Eureka), and Selected Shorts host Isaiah Sheffer read vivid tales of cross-cultural misunderstanding, imagination and discovery, by Percival Everett (I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel).
This event is a part of Intersections: a New American Arts Festival.
Atlas Performing Arts Center
Lang Theater
1333 H Street NE
Washington, DC
Phone: 202.399.7993
Tickets: $20
Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 8:00 pm
A Touch of Magic
Host Isaiah Sheffer, Jane Curtin, and David Strathairn perform stories with a magical twist by Ray Bradbury, W.W. Jacobs, and Saki.
The Bardavon
35 Market Street
Poughkeepsie, NY
Phone: 845.473.2072
Tickets: $32 Adult / $27 Member / $20 Student/Senior with valid ID
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 8:00 pm
North Carolina University at Wilmington
Kenan Auditorium
Wilmington, NC
http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/presents/performing-calendar.htm
Phone: Kenan Auditorium Box Office: 910.962.3500
Life in the South
Frequent This American Life contributor David Rakoff hosts readings of stories by contemporary writers Donna Tartt (The Secret History) and Percival Everett (I Am Not Sidney Poitier) and classic master Flannery O'Connor about challenges of life in the South, tackling racism and understanding class issues. The other cast members are actors Patricia Kalember (Thirtysomething and Sisters) and Russell Joel Brown (The Lion King national tour).
Co-presented with the Department of Creative Writing and the Katherine Buckner Lecture Series. Free open to the public - ticketing required
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 7:00pm
Spokane for the Get Lit! Festival
Bing Crosby Theater
Spokane, WA
http://outreach.ewu.edu/getlit/home.xml
Saturday, April 17, 2010
CEO Montana, LLC
Missoula, MT
Saturday, May 1, 2010 - Sunday, May 2, 2010
The Getty Museum
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.getty.edu/museum/
Phone 310.440.7300
Friday May 7, 2010
Crandall Public Library
251 Glen Street
Glens Falls, NY
http://www.crandalllibrary.org/
Phone 518.792.6508
Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Montclair Public Library
Montclair, NJ
http://www.montclairlibrary.org/
Presented jointly by the Bergen County Cooperative Library System and The Montclair Public Library
