Nov 13, 2025
Hugh at Selected Shorts: 250 Years of Jane Austen
I’ve recorded bits with Hugh again. Enjoy! On my channel you can find his other performances as well.
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Hugh at Selected Shorts: 250 Years of Jane Austen
I’ve recorded bits with Hugh again. Enjoy! On my channel you can find his other performances as well.
Robert Sean Leonard, Jane Curtin, and Jane Kaczmarek at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts for Symphony Space: “Selected Shorts” episode, Unforgettable Journeys (2016).
David Strathairn Appreciation:
Selected Shorts | Adams Theater, Adams MA | 2026
Justin Kirk with Selected Shorts at the Bankhead Theatre (02.02.25)
So, this happened last night...
(Thank you @neil-gaiman for a lovely evening!)
Jason Ralph read tonight on Selected Shorts. Beautiful job. Such a pleasure to hear and see. (Thank you @itsminimes for letting me know.)
Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash
Performed by Jason Ralph
SELECTED SHORTS: ROZ CHAST, WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING | Symphony Space
"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby
Selected Shorts: Keeping Score with Meg Wolitzer
June 5, 2024 | Symphony Space | Evening | Reading | Series | 1H 50M
A fun evening of enjoyable stories, all themed around games and grudges. Of the five stories, only the last really lagged. I didn't find it particularly compelling, and it just seemed like the writer threw darts at a board full of words to make a madlibs style plot. The pyromaniac kid likes to play parcheesi and has a mother who is cheating with her birth father and she goes to a carnival. Sure, it could have been an interesting story, but last? If it had been shuffled to the middle of the night, it might have been better. As it was, the finale really dragged. All four of the other stories were sharper (and shorter). I also wasn't entirely sold on the performance of Dylan Marron's story. He also wrote it, and I suppose he must just be a better writer than a performer because his voice and mannerisms seemed to indicate he doesn't do much public speaking. (Okay, I googled him and turns out he's a podcast host of that one everyone seems to love on here? Never heard of him. If that's how he narrates, why do you all listen do it? Maybe it was just an off-night.) Susie Essman and John Hodgman brought hilarious energy to their stories, and I like how charming Meg Wolitzer is. As for James Naughton reading Updike, it was very moving. And maybe a little apparent that he's getting on in years. Overall, lots of fun with the stories themselves being largely enjoyable.
Verdict: Why I Love the Theatre
A Note on Ratings
