From: howard@boxhill.com (Howard Gershen)
Subject: Selected Shorts
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:46:13 GMT

Distribution: usa

In New York last night, Symphony Space (a non-profit theatre on the Upper
West Side) presented the premiere of the 9th Season of their series of 
readings, "Selected Shorts." Faithful listeners of National Public Radio
may be familiar with the radio (re)broadcasts of Selected Shorts, a program
of famous actors and actresses reading short stories.

Residents of the New York Metro area (or visitors) may be interested in
attending the readings. In my 4 or 5 years of season tickets, I've only
seen two readings that were terrible. Most are very good, and the readers
include several well-known Tony, Oscar, and Emmy winners. This year's crop 
of readers include: Helen-Jean Arthur, Christine Baranski, Vinie Burrows, 
Paul Butler, Len Cariou, Jack Davidson, Mia Dillon, Laura Esterman,
Finnula Flanagan, Michael Genet, Joe Grifasi, Jonathan Hadary, Paul Hecht,
Mary Beth Hurt, Stephen Lang, Nancy Marchand, David Margulies, Malachy
McCourt, James Naughton, Rochelle Oliver, John Rubinstein, Marian Seldes,
Isaiah Sheffer, Freda Foh Shen, Lois Smith, Joseph Sommer, Paul Sparer,
Keith Szarabajka, Maria Tucci, Fritz Weaver, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen
Widdoes, Hattie Winston, B. D. Wong, and others.

Tickets cost $12, but there's a 5 tickets for the price of 4 deal. I have 
no qualms about including this information, since they're a non-profit arts organization. The Box Office's phone number is 212-864-5400. Mail orders
can be sent to: SHORTS TIX
		Symphony Space
		2537 Broadway
		New York, N.Y. 10025

The Programs are subject to change, but here's the current schedule of 
readings at Symphony Space (sorry, I don't know the radio schedules):

January 20	Inauguration Night
	The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
	Old Fires (Richard Currey)
	On the U.S.S. Fortitude (Ron Carlson)
	A Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C. (Ward Just)

January 27	Italian Nights	[Hosted by Alberto Manguel]
	Winter in the Abruzzi (Natalia Ginzburg)
	Westward (Primo Levi)
	Kafka's Houses (Dino Buzzati)
	The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit (Giovanni Papini)

February 10	His and Hers
	Children Are Bored on Sunday (Jean Stafford)
	In the Land of Men (Antonya Nelson)
	Where She Went, What She Did (Laura Cunningham)
	Love Poems (Lon Otto)

February 24	Writers We Admire [Hosted by Mona Simpson, Ethan Canin]
	<program to be announced>

March 10	Love and War
	Peace and War (Moacyr Scliar)
	Harm's Reach (Scott Russell Sanders)
	The Pugilist at Rest (Thom Jones)
	In the Bedroom (Guy de Maupassant)

March 24	The Stories of John Cheever
				[Hosted by Mary, Susan, and Benjamin Cheever]
	The Death of Justina
	Goodbye, My Brother
	The Angel of the Bridge

April 7		Interiors
	Sleep (Larry Brown)
	Why I Am a Danger to the Public (Barbara Kingsolver)
	The Evolution of Knowledge (Niccolo Tucci)

April 21	Arrangements For Love
	Quilting on the Rebound (Terry McMillan)
	True Love (Don Shea)
	A Certain Beginning (Kim Chi-Won)
	The Juggler (Ursula Hegi)

May 5	<no title>	[Hosted by J. California Cooper]
	<program to be announced>

May 19		Only Connect
	Tightrope (Roberta Silman)
	American Fish; Seattle (R. A. Sasaki)
	New York Is a Girl (Robert Sand)
	The Second Tree from the Corner (E. B. White)



Hope to see you there...
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