“One of the finest evenings at the theatre” –David Sedaris
Experience the hit public radio series and podcast Selected Shorts live for an evening of funny, moving, and unforgettable readings!
Selected Shorts is a weekly public radio show, conceived in 1985 with a simple premise: take great stories by well-known and emerging writers and have them performed by terrific actors of stage and screen. Today, it is broadcast on over 130 stations to about 300,000 listeners and distributed by Public Radio International. It is one of New York City’s premier reading series, and the podcast consistently ranks as one of the most popular on iTunes.
Each Selected Shorts is a unique night of literature in performance. The stories are always fiction, sometimes classic, sometimes new, and always performed by great actors from stage, screen, and television who bring them to life.
CAST:
Tony Hale started his career playing on the ground-breaking series Arrested Development and has since garnered two Emmy awards for his work on the HBO hit Veep. He currently plays “Benedict” on Disney’s The Mysterious Benedict Society. Film credits include Being the Ricardo’s; The Informant; Stranger Than Fiction; Love, Simon; The Heat; Happythankyoumoreplease, and voicing “Forky” in Toy Story 4. Hale’s children’s book, Archibald’s Next Big Thing, was adapted as an animated series and premiered in 2019.
Jane Kaczmarek is best known for her role as Lois on Malcolm in the Middle, for which she received 7 consecutive Emmy nominations as well as nominations for the Golden Globe and SAG Awards. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Yale School of Drama, Kaczmarek made her television debut on The Paper Chase and Hill Street Blues. On stage, she has appeared on Broadway and off, and for 6 seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her recent theater credits include Long Day's Journey Into Night with Alfred Molina and Our Town with Deaf West Theatre. Kaczmarek’s favorite job is raising her three kids and reading/hosting Selected Shorts across America.
Annie Q. began her professional acting career on the stage, playing the title role in Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child at the Signature Theatre. She is best known for her role as Christine in HBO’s The Leftovers and as Sophie Hicks in Netflix’s Alex Strangelove. Her recent work includes the back-to-school installment of Hulu’s Into the Dark, where she starred as Blumhouse’s first Asian-American lead. Annie grew up between Beijing and New York City and studied at LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. She can currently be seen in the role of Juliette Tan on HBO Max and the CW's Kung Fu.