Photo Flash: ELLA THE MUSICAL At Long Wharf Theatre

Each week on local public radio stations, great actors from stage, screen and television bring short stories to life. Selected Shorts is an award-winning, one-hour program featuring readings of classic and new short fiction. One of the most popular series on the airwaves, this unique show is hosted by Isaiah Sheffer and produced for radio by Symphony Space and WNYC Radio. Sheffer will be joined at Long Wharf Theatre by Tony winners and television stars B.D. Wong and Denis O'Hare, performing powerful, surprising and funny tales about identity, race, guilt and understanding by terrific contemporary American writers Sherman Alexie (War Dances), Percival Everett (I Am Not Sidney Poitier) and O. Henry winner John Biguenet. This event was programmed in conjunction with the theatre's production of The Train Driver, by Athol Fugard, running from Oct. 27-Nov. 21 on the Mainstage.

Wong won Tony and Drama Desk awards for his work in M. Butterfly. He also appeared on Broadway in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Pacific Overtures. He has performed extensively on television and film, most notable in the television series "Law & Order: SVU" and "Oz" and the films Mulan, Father of the Bride I+II, Executive Decision and Jurassic Park, among others. O'Hare won Tony and Drama Desk awards for his work in Take Me Out and a Drama Desk Award for Sweet Charity. He also appeared on Broadway in Inherit the Wind, Cabaret and Assassins. He recently appeared in the television series "True Blood" and the films Duplicity, Charlie Wilson's War, Milk, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Michael Clayton, A Mighty Heart, and Garden State, among others.

Sherman Alexie, a poet, author and filmmaker, has won awards for "War Dances," "Reservation Blues" and "Indian Killer." He was also named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. He has written the films Smoke Signals and The Business of Fancydancing, and directed the latter. In addition to his writing career, Alexie is a standup comedian.

Biguenet has published six books, including "Oyster," a novel, and "The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories." A professor at Loyola University in New Orleans, Biguenet has written novels, short stories, poetry and plays, in addition to writing a chronicle for the New York Times of his experience returning to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Everett has written 19 books in 22 years, including a farcicAl Western, a savage satire of the publishing industry, a children's story spoofing counting books, retellings of the Greek myths of "Medea" and "Dionysus" and a philosophical tract narrated by a four-year-old. He has been honored for his novels "Wounded," "Erasure," "Big Picture" and "Zulus." He is a professor at the University of Southern California.

Tickets are $25 and are available by visiting the new www.longwharf.org or by calling the Box Office at 203-787-4282. For more information about R.J. Julia Booksellers, visit www.rjjulia.com.