'Pets!' Themed Short Plays Read at Westport on March 18

Sonia Manzano, Bernadette Quigley and Isaiah Sheffer will read short stories at 'Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story,' the live performance version of the renowned public radio show of the same name, on Tuesday, March 18 at 8PM, at Westport Country Playhouse.

"Selected Shorts," produced by Symphony Space in New York City, is co-presented at Westport Country Playhouse by the Westport Arts Center and Westport Country Playhouse, and sponsored by WSHU.

Hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, the evening's program will be ""Pets!," funny and unexpected stories about people, pets and their problems, inspired by the dogs in three writers' lives.

Sonia Manzano will read Ana Menéndez' Story of a Parrot, about a beautiful bird that makes a woman reflect on her marriage; Bernadette Quigley will read Gail Godwin's St George, about a medieval scholar who raises a real dragon in her apartment; and Isaiah Sheffer will read Robertson Davies' The Cat that Went to Trinity, a gothic tale of a Frankenstein cat.

Tickets to "Selected Shorts" are $15, $20 and $25.

For more information or reservations for "Selected Shorts," visit www.westportplayhouse.org, or call Westport Country Playhouse box office at (203) 227-4177, or toll-free at 1-888-927-7529.  Westport Country Playhouse is located at 25 Powers Court, off Route 1, Westport.  

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