Actors Reading Authors at the Weston Library

(Editor's note: The following is a press release sent by Karen Tatarka, director of the Weston Public Library.)

On Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m., the will host its inaugural Actors Reading Authors event. Join well-known actors of stage and screen Frank Converse, Patrick Horgan and more for an evening of readings from favorite modern and classic novelists, playwrights and poets with birthdays in September.

Participate in the celebration by reading a short passage from your favorite September author, gather a group to re-create a scene from a play, or simply join the audience for an enjoyable evening. Readings should range from three minutes for a monologue to five minutes for a scene.

September celebrants include: Richard Wright, Elinor Wylie, Leo Tolstoy, Hilda Doolittle, Jane Smiley, D.H. Lawrence, O. Henry, Roald Dahl, Sherwood Anderson, Truman Capote, W.C. Williams, Samuel Johnson, Donald Hall, Upton Sinclair, Elie Wiesel, H.G. Wells, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and T.S. Eliot.

If you wish to contribute a reading, please contact the library with your author and title selection at westonlibrary@westonct.gov or 203-222-2650. For more information on this event and for a listing of other events at the library, please visit www.westonpubliclibrary.org.