Selected Shorts: Lovers & Strangers – with Jane Curtin, Lauren Ambrose, Sonia Manzano and More
Schedule
Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
14 Castle St, Great Barrington, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01230 | Great Barrington, MA
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$35 – $45 Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event
The popular radio show and podcast Selected Shorts returns for an evening of romance and intrigue. Join us as actors including Jane Curtin, Lauren Ambrose, Sonia Manzano, and more perform funny, mysterious, and poignant short stories about love, competing desires, and unexpected encounters. Stay tuned for more casting news!
Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy.
Hosted by Sonia Manzano. When you think of Sonia Manzano, you immediately think of children and television. Her most recent accomplishment was creating a children’s program, Alma’s Way, for PBS Kids. The series has won two Imagen Awards for Best Youth Programing, a 2022 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Preschool Animated Program, and a 2023 NAACP nomination for an Image Award. But what Ms. Manzano is best known for performing the role of “Maria” on Sesame Street for 44 seasons, where her work affected the lives of millions of parents and children and garnered her two Emmy Award nominations in addition to the National Academy of Arts and Science’s Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy in 2016. As a writer for the show, she took home 15 Emmys. In 2022, Manzano was honored with the Beacon Award from PBS. She is also an author whose most recent Scholastic novel, Coming Up Cuban, set in 1959, follows the lives of four children who represent different intersections of race and class during the Cuban Revolution.
Actors subject to change.
About Selected Shorts:
Selected Shorts is produced by Symphony Space in New York City and broadcast on more than 150 stations around the country. The Selected Shorts podcast consistently ranks as one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes, with over 100,000 downloads every week. The series began in 1985 and enjoys sold-out performances to this day. Selected Shorts was conceived with a simple premise: take great stories by well-known and emerging writers and have them performed by terrific actors of stage and screen. Live events are often co-hosted by writers or involve a special collaboration with literary publications, podcasts, museums, and more. Each Selected Shorts is a unique reading of literature in performance.
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