This Sunday, the curtain comes down on the acclaimed revival of Kaufman and Ferber’s The Royal Family, in which Rosemary Harris stars as matriarch Fanny Cavendish. (In the show’s 1975 run, Ms. Harris played Fanny’s daughter, Julie.)

In September, Ms. Harris—perhaps best known these days as Spider Man’s Aunt May—returned to the Poetry Center to read from the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde.

Today’s featured recording is Ms. Harris reading two of those tales: The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant. It includes a post-reading Q&A session with the actress.

Ms. Harris’s reading was part of the Poetry Center’s Children’s Reading Series, which resumes this Saturday with an appearance by Lois Lowry, author of the Anastasia series and Number the Stars. She’ll be reading from two new books—Crow Call and The Willoughbys—and providing a sneak-peek of a third, The Birthday Ball, which is forthcoming. A book-signing will follow.

In an ongoing effort to share with our readers some of the great literary moments which the Poetry Center has presented across the decades, this blog has begun to feature regular postings of archival recordings. For access to other recordings, please click here. For tickets to Ms. Lowry’s reading, please click here.

Unterberg Poetry Center webcasts and access to our archive are made possible in part by the generous support of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.

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