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Masks are encouraged and appreciated, but not mandatory for this event.

Actors Krystina Alabado (Broadway's Mean Girls), Hugh Dancy (Hannibal), and Holly Hunter (Succession) perform stories by Yohanca Delgado, Greg Jackson, and Erin Somers at our annual evening honoring the highly anticipated annual collection that celebrates the best of the form. Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Andrew Sean Greer (Less) hosts and introduces this special evening pairing together some of the most exciting short stories and actors of today.

Real-time captioning (CART) will be available in our theater for patrons with hearing loss, deafness, different language and learning needs, and anyone whose experience will be enhanced by CART. To access CART on your individual smartphone or tablet, please visit bit.ly/SymphonySpace_Captions.

Do to a scheduling conflict, Claire Danes and Monica Raymund will no longer appear at this event. Stay tuned for casting news!

Selected Shorts is produced by Symphony Space and broadcast on more than 130 stations around the country. The series began in 1985 and enjoys sold-out performances to this day. Selected Shorts was conceived with a simple premise: take great stories by well-known and emerging writers and have them performed by terrific actors of stage and screen. Featuring stories around a lively theme, the favorite works of a guest author, or a special collaboration, each Selected Shorts event is a unique night of literature in performance.

Recent readers include Ellen Burstyn, Kate Walsh, Bebe Neuwirth, Claire Danes, Michael Shannon, Kyle Maclachlan, LeVar Burton, Jane Curtin, Danielle Brooks, Cynthia Nixon, Rainn Wilson, Holly Hunter, Hugh Dancy, Joan Allen, Josh Radnor, Tony Shalhoub, Maggie Gyllenhaal, BD Wong and more.

Actors subject to change. Casting and special guests will be announced on our website. Please check back for up-to-date information.

There will not be an intermission at this event.