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The Big Deal: DMA Arts & Letters Live! Selected Shorts


by Gila Espinoza 13 Dec 2017 8:32 AM

The Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts & Letters Live series will host Selected Shorts. Selected Shorts is one of the premier reading series which features screen and stage actors reading classics and new short fiction in front of a live audience. You can hear the award-winning radio series on KERA 90.1, every Saturday, at 9 p.m.

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The theme for the live show at the DMA will be “For Better and for Worse: Tales of Marriage.” Michael Cerveris who starred in “Fun Home” and “Assassins on Broadway” will read “The Dummy” by Susan Sontag. Jane Kaczmarek who is best known for her role as Lois on “Malcolm in the Middle” will read “Hat Trick” by Edith Pearlman. Finally, Maria Tucci who has appeared on Broadway in productions of “Night of the Iguana,” “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore,” “The Little Foxes,” and many others will read “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” by Angela Carter. Win this week’s Big Deal and receive two tickets to a lively evening among the stars, Saturday, January 27.

Be sure you take the time now to read up on our other Big Deals this week.  Enter to win family tickets to the Trains at NorthPark Center or the companion book to the Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Please note: Only Art&Seek newsletter subscribers are eligible for the Big Deal. If you’re not yet receiving our weekly emails then you’re missing out! You’ll want to take care of that first here before you sign up below. We pick our winners on Friday so be sure to check your inbox!

UPDATE: We have our winner. Thank you for playing!

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