The stories I read had plenty of food-related scenes in them that were quite inspiring. How did you go about designing a menu based on short stories? I asked Mayet about how she devised the menu, translating creative words into creative food. Each ticket includes a small-bite culinary creation and a glass of wine.
#Public radio international selected shorts series#
A handful of tickets are still available.īecause our audiences will be subjected to tantalizing descriptions of delectable feasts and whimsical confections-with every savory detail read with gusto by our esteemed cast-we knew we couldn’t leave them hungry! We teamed up with Mayet Cristobal, chef at the Getty Restaurant, to create a series of delicious parings inspired by the readings. For the program “Drama at Dinner,” Robert Sean Leonard hosts three performances on March 22 nd and 23 rd featuring award-winning actors such as Catherine O’Hara, Christina Pickles, Michael Imperioi, Christopher Lloyd, and more. Like each iteration of Selected Shorts, the readings taking place at the Getty Center this weekend have a unifying theme linking the literary tales together, and this year’s is none other than food. The broadcast, which reaches over 300,000 public radio listeners each week, invites stars from Broadway stages and Hollywood screens to bring compelling pieces of short fiction to life.
Once a year, the Getty has the exciting privilege of playing host to a live performance of the long-running and much-loved radio series Selected Shorts. Spring on a plate: Pea tendrils over scallop pays humorous homage to Lydia Davis’s story “Letter to a Frozen Peas Manufacturer”
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