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Selected Shorts Tour Dates

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Please check back for performance updates, including each evening's performers, authors, and story titles.


 

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

http://dallasmuseumofart.org/

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 

http://www.atlasarts.org/

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

www.bardavon.org

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


 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 




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