WORDTheatre: Short Story Specialists

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September 11, 2022 American Psycho's Samantha Mathis performs "Three Girls" by Joyce Carol Oates
WordTheatre releases a rerun of the eleventh episode in its podcast. Samantha Mathis introduces and performs "Three Girls" by Joyce Carol Oates. If you are enjoying our free weekly podcast, please sign up for our electronic mailing list to find out about our Live Author/Actor Zoom events at: https://wordtheatre.com.
31 min
September 04, 2022 The Secret World of Alex Mack's Larisa Oleynick performs Temporary by Marisa Silver
In this thoughtfully rendered, moving story by Marisa Silver, a young woman in her twenties searches for permanence in a world that keeps offering temporary opportunities.
37 min
August 24, 2022 Sinners' Bill Pullman performs "Au Sable" by Joyce Carol Oates
WordTheatre releases the twelfth episode in its podcast. Bill Pullman introduces and performs "Au Sable" by Joyce Carol Oates. Sign up for our electronic mailing list to find out about upcoming Live Author/Actor Live Zoom events at: https://wordtheatre.com
29 min
August 21, 2022 Westworld's Ed Harris performs Richard Bausch's In That Time
A young boy moves to Cuba with his father and step-mother and has a life changing encounter with Ernest Hemingway one morning.
56 min
August 14, 2022 Only Murders in the Building's Vanessa Aspillaga performs "Lucho" by Patricia Engel
This week WORDTheatre presents a complex love story by Patricia Engel. Set in New Jersey, “Lucho” follows a young girl from an immigrant family as she faces the challenges that come with a new home.
41 min
August 07, 2022 Billions' Samantha Mathis performs "A Full Service Shelter" by Amy Hempel
WARNING: In this deeply affecting, Pushcart Prize winning story, author Amy Hempel takes us inside a municipal animal shelter in northern Manhattan where dogs wait to be either adopted or euthanized. This story is unsentimental and heartbreaking. While it is a difficult story to listen to, Samantha Mathis gives pitch-perfect voice to Hempel's stunning piece of work. We hope you will take some quiet time to listen to it. You will hear Amy talk about her story and where it comes from immediately after Samantha's performance.
29 min
July 30, 2022 S.W.A.T.'s David Gautreaux performs Scott O Connor's Flicker
Scott O'Connor's wonderful short story "Flicker," exquisitely brought to life by David Gautreaux, is introduced in our podcast by the author. Pick up a copy of Scott's story collection, A Perfect Universe, at https://bookshop.org/shop/wordtheatre. Each of these ten stories is beautiful and if you don't yet know Scott O'Connor's work, the time has come!
"Scott O'Connor's beautifully wrought stories are sharp-edged, unflinching, and filled with the kind of precision of language that etches images into the mind. His characters' lives are ingeniously connected by a '70s cult sci-fi film, but what really binds them is the often heartbreaking and always surprising ways they attempt to find purchase in the world they inhabit, one which can feel as out of reach and inscrutable as the farthest star.
--Marisa Silver, author of Little Nothing and Mary Coin

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50 min
July 24, 2022 Black Panther's Danny Sapani performs Kit de Waal's Exterior Paint
Danny Sapani steps in the shoes of a man who loved a woman. This love story is set in 1960's London and tells of a couple who overcome many obstacles to find happiness.
41 min
July 17, 2022 The Crown's Alastair Mackenzie reads Savage by Kamila Shamsie
Inspired by the Cato Street Conspiracy, originally published in Resist: Stories of Uprising from Comma Press, this story by Kamila Shamsie is set in 1820. A man comes to understand what is truly 'savage' as he comes to know his brother's son.
25 min
July 10, 2022 In Memoriam: A Tribute to Philip Baker Hall
A huge talent and a remarkable, warm and wonderful human being, Philip Baker Hall passed away at the age of ninety on June 12, 2022. He lived a stellar life both professionally and personally. Philip graced WORDTheatre stages for many years and in gratitude, we are sharing four of his many performances so that his literary legacy becomes part of our collective memory. Please share this podcast with your friends, family and colleagues. We must carry the experience of his prodigious talents forward so that people everywhere, especially future generations, will witness and understand this phenomenal level of author/actor alchemy that one must simply call art...
1 hr 11 min

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Where the Best Authors & Actors Meet. Each week, WORDTheatre® shares a brilliant short story performed live in LA, NY or London by a great actor, usually with the author in the room to hear their…