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Each week, WORDTheatre® shares a brilliant short story performed live in LA, NY or London by a great actor, usually with the author in the room to hear their story being brought to life. Like what you hear? Visit WORDTheatre.org/Membership/ or if you are near the UK, visit WORDTheatreUK.org to enjoy live events and recordings by becoming a Patron or Enthusiast Member! WORDTheatre® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the US and a Dual Charitable Trust in the UK. We are on a mission to make a better world one story at a time.
Hello and welcome to WORDTheatre Weekly: The Short Story
Podcast where great authors and actors meet! I’m your host, Cedering Fox,
WORDTheatre’s Founder & Artistic Director.
Today, we have another story from our most recent Author•Actor event in Manhattan. This piece, titled “The Widow’s Tale,” is a 2026 Pushcart Prize winner featured in the 50th Anniversary edition, and you can also find it in Richard Bausch’s most recent short story collection,The Fate of Others, It was performed by a fantastic group of actors in NYC with Janel Molony at the helm. Kimmy Shields plays her sister Moira, Peter Von Berg is Moira's husband, Vincent Piazza plays Moira's X Eliot, Larisa Oleynick plays Lara, Eliot's new girlfriend and Robert Aberdeen plays Bill Perry.
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Before we begin the performance, we are honored to have author, Richard Bausch, a longtime WORDTheatre participant, here to introduce his story. Please welcome Richard Bausch.
BAUSCH INTRODUCES THE PIECE.
And now, here is Richard Bausch’s “The Widow’s Tale.”
MOLONEY, SHIELDS, VON BERG, ABERDEEN, OLEYNIK, AND PIAZZA PERFORM THE PIECE.
You have just heard "The Widow’s Tale” by Richard Bausch, performed by Janel Moloney, Kimmy Shields, Peter Von Berg, Robert Aberdeen, Larisa Oleynik, and Vincent Piazza.
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On behalf of my UK producing partner Kirsty Peart and myself, Thank you to the LA Department of Arts & Culture, and Jane Oster Sinisi and her new company, Palisades Post. I’d also like to thank our WORDTheatre team and you, our audience! Thank you for listening.
Until next week, this is Cedering Fox, signing off!