Receive 10% off your purchase with code SYMPHONYSPACE. Purchase A Swim in a Pond in the Rain and more suggestions inspired by tonight’s program from our friends at Strand here. Tickets are $12 for members and $15 for nonmembers. Performed by Becca Blackwell, Peter Jay Fernandez, Santino Fontana, Zach Grenier, Ann Harada, and Peter Mark Kendall With a reading from the original Russian text by Anna Dzhanaeva With a reading from the original Russian text by Luba Lapina Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy.
Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. With performances by Becca Blackwell ( They, Themself and Schmerm), Donna Lynne Champlin ( Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Peter Jay Fernandez ( Luke Cage), Santino Fontana ( Tootsie), Zach Grenier ( The Good Fight), Ann Harada ( Smash), Richard Masur ( Younger), Peter Mark Kendall ( Strange Angel), and BD Wong ( Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens).
On Wednesday, February 3rd at 7:30pm, he brings his passion to Selected Shorts with a lineup of stories curated from his long history with the greats of Russian literature, including hidden gems not included in the book. Symphony Space also offers a 3-CD set (or download) Readers and Writers, selected recordings from Selected Shorts of the past.George Saunders has been teaching the nineteenth-century Russian short story for 20 years, and his newest book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, is a master class on some of his favorites. (On WNYC, it airs Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00pm on AM 820.) Luckily for the rest of us, shows are also available on public radio, online, and by podcast (go here to subscribe).Īnd here is a schedule of upcoming readings this page also features a link to find Selected Shorts on your local public radio station. New Yorkers can catch upcoming shows live at the Peter Sharp Jay Theatre (buy tickets here).
Hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, performances often focus on a theme for example, “Living Life to the Fullest” included Neil Patrick Harris reading “The Canoeists” by Rick Bass and Mia Dillon reading Pam Houston’s “How To Talk to Hunter.” And the series features plenty of stories by young/emerging writers, too, including Karen Russell, Aimee Bender, Kiran Desai, and Kevin Brockmeier. More short story love, this time with actors: Symphony Space presents “Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story,” in which “spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed by stars of the stage and screen.”
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