Selected Shorts®
Sunday 4-5PM on WBFO
Selected Shorts presents great actors from stage, screen and television bringing short stories to life, with readings of classic and new short fiction-recorded live at New York's Symphony Space.
Since 1985, Symphony Space in New York City has served as the stage for exciting pairings of authors and actors. Selected Shorts producers match Oscar and Tony Award-winning actors with short stories by acclaimed contemporary and classic authors. The results are magically entertaining events turned into captivating radio programs.
Selected Shorts readers have included Jane Curtin, Paul Reiser, Leonard Nimoy, Alec Baldwin, Jerry Orbach and Meryl Streep.
Stories include those by great contemporary writers like John Updike, E. Annie Proulx, Alice Munro, William Trevor and Tim O'Brien, in addition to such legends as Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Langston Hughes, James Joyce and Willa Cather.
This unique show is hosted by Isaiah Sheffer and produced for radio by Symphony Space and WNYC Radio in New York.
View a list of upcoming shows here.
