Selected Shorts

By Selected Shorts

Arts Performing Arts

What's Selected Shorts about?

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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Family Matters

11.21.2019

Guest host Hope Davis presents stories about family ties.

11.21.2019 Family Matters Guest host Hope Davis presents stories about family ties.
11.14.2019 Motherhood with Celeste Ng & Mary Karr On this show, guest host Kate Burton introduces two stories that look at the joys and complexity of motherhood.
11.07.2019 Reality Checks Guest host Josh Radnor presents two stories about expectation, hope and disenchantment.
10.31.2019 An Evening with LeVar Burton Guest host LeVar Burton presents two of his favorite stories.
10.28.2019 Too Hot For Radio: Patrick Dacey "To Feel Again The Kind of Love That Hurts Something Terrible" Actor John Cameron Mitchell wows us with his performance of a beautiful and poignant coming-of-age story.
10.24.2019 Hauntings for Halloween Guest host Kate Burton presents some unusual chillers for Halloween.
10.17.2019 It All Depends on How You Look at It Guest host Sonia Manzano presents two stories about identity, appearance, and longing. I
10.10.2019 Celebrating James Baldwin Guest host LeVar Burton presents a program celebrating the author he calls “potent and polemical.”
09.18.2017 Too Hot For Radio Bruce Jay Friedman “The Tax Man" Bruce Jay Friedman has been hailed by critics as a comic genius, a writer whose vision confronts the malaise of contemporary life with a liberating deadpan humor. Friedman has published several novels, multiple collections of short stories, four plays, and ...