Labors of the Heart
Originally broadcast February 25, 2007 |
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Susan Osborne-Mott reads “Labors of the Heart” by Claire Davis; Steve Scott directs.
Bibliographical Information
Published in The Best American Short Stories 2001 Ed. by Katrina Kenison and Barbara Kingsolver (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001).
“Labors of the Heart” was originally presented as part of the 2004 live performance season at the Museum of Contemporary Art. |
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From the Outside Looking In
Originally broadcast February 18, 2007 |
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Rob Riley reads “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte; Steve Scott directs.
Bibliographical Information
Published in Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings by Bret Harte, Gary Scharnhorst, Editor (Penguin Classics Series, 2001).
Kevin Theis reads “French Lessons” by Suzanne Glass; Judy O’Malley directs.
Bibliographical Information
Commissioned and unpublished. Inspired by Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877, a painting by Gustave Caillebotte (Art Institute, Chicago).
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” was originally presented as part of the 2004 live season of “Stories on Stage” at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
“French Lessons” was originally commissioned by Stories on Stage for our 2004 special event, “Work of Art,” at the Vittum Theater.
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Escapes
Originally broadcast February 11, 2007 |
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Brad Armacost reads “The Anthem Sprinters” by Ray Bradbury; Steve Scott directs.
Bibliographical Information
Published in The Vintage Bradbury (Vintage, 1990).
Sandra Delgado reads “The Incredible but True Story of Prince Nicolau Agua-Rosada” by Jose Eduardo Agualusa; Cheryl Lynn Bruce directs.
Bibliographical Information
Published in The Literary Review (V. 38 Summer 1995).
Both stories were originally presented as part of the 2005 live season of “Stories on Stage” at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
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In the Pursuit of Happiness
Originally broadcast February 4, 2007 |
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Cheryl Graeff reads “The Wonder Spot” by Melissa Bank; Edward Sobel directs.
Bibliographical Information
Published in Speaking with the Angel, ed. Nick Hornby (Riverhead Books, 2001) and in The Wonder Spot (Viking, 2005).
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Laura T. Fisher reads “When Much Was In Store” by Elizabeth McKenzie; Judy O’Malley directs.
Greta Sidwell Honold reads “You Must Be This Happy to Enter” by Elizabeth Crane; Judy O’Malley
directs.
Garry Winogrand's photo (left) inspired both McKenize and Crane's stories.
Bibliographical Information
Unpublished, commissioned for “Stories on Stage”
“The Wonder Spot” was originally presented as part of the 2005 live season of “Stories on Stage” at the Museum of Contemporary Art. “When Much Was In Store” and “You Must Be This Happy to Enter” were originally presented as part of the 2005 live season of “Stories on Stage” at the Vittum Theater.
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'Til Death Do Us Part
Originally broadcast January 28, 2007 |
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Bradley Mott reads “Plinking” by R.T. Smith; Michael E. Myers directs.
Bibliographical Information
Published in The Southern Review, (Vol. 37, no. 1 Winter 2001)
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| ©The Estate of Garry Winogrand, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, S.F.; Collection of Museum of Contemporary Photography Columbia College Chicago |
Taylor Miller reads “The Start of It” by Elizabeth McCracken; Judy O’Malley directs.
Garry Winogrand's photo (right) inspired McCracken's story.
Bibliographical Information
Commissioned, unpublished
“Plinking” was originally presented as part of the 2005 live season of “Stories on Stage” at the Museum of Contemporary Art. “The Start of It” was originally presented as part of the 2005 live season of “Stories on Stage” at the Vittum Theater.
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Morning, Noon and Night
Originally broadcast January 21, 2007 |
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Mary Beth Fisher reads “In the Gloaming” by Alice Elliot Dark; Abigail Deser directs.
Bibliographical Information:
Nothing But You: Love Stories From the New Yorker Ed. by The New Yorker Magazine (Random House, 1998) and in The Best American Short Stories of the Century, Ed. by John Updike (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
This story was originally presented as part of the 2005 live season of “Stories on Stage” at the Museum of Contemporary Art. |
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Again and Again
Originally broadcast January 14, 2007 |
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Craig Spindle reads “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe; Michael E. Myers directs.
Bibliographical Information:
Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Perennial/Harper & Row, 1970)
Barbara Robertson reads “Enough” by Alice McDermott; Abigail Deser directs.
Bibliographical Information:
More Stories We Tell (Pantheon, 2004)
Bruce Norris reads “Yma Dream” by Thomas Meehan; Abigail Deser directs.
Bibliographical Information:
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing From the New Yorker, ed. by David Remnick and Henry Finder (Random House, 2002)
Both stories were originally presented as part of the 2005 live season of “Stories on Stage” at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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| Stories on Stage was on hiatus for the 2006 season, but recorded a special, live event to remember the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. |
Special Presentation: Voices from Chernobyl
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Actors read excerpts from the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award winnerVoices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich.
Bibliographical Information:
Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich (Picador Press)
Excerpts
read by Brad Armacost, Laura T. Fisher, Caitlin Hart and David Pasquesi; directed by Judy O’Malley.
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