This autumn fall for moth stories.
As we travel across the globe for our main stages, we're excited to announce our fall lineup of storytelling shows from New York City to Iowa City, London, Nairobi, and so many more, the moth will be performing in a city near you.
Featuring a curation of true stories, the Moth mainstage shows feature five tellers who share beautiful, unbelievable, hilarious, and often powerful true stories on a common theme.
Each one told reveals something new about our shared connection.
To buy your tickets or find out more about our calendar, visit themoth.org mainstage.
We hope to see you soon.
From PRX, this is the moth radio hour.
I'm Jennifer Hickson.
In this hour, we're sharing stories about situations where things are not as as they seem.
From purposeful deception to just coming to terms with who you are versus who you thought you were.
We found our first storyteller, Phil Branch, at our story slam in Washington, DC.
Here's a story he developed for a show in Boston where we partnered with public radio station WGBH.
Here's Phil Branch.
So my senior year in high school, I am your average all american teenage boy interested in average all american teenage boy things like having a cool car and taking a hot date to the prom and designing my date's prom dress.
My senior year, I'm five'six, 129 pounds, and this might be surprising, but I could not catch and or dribble a ball of any sort.
So the fact that I had a date at all was a miracle.
My girlfriend's name was Dana, and she was the most beautiful girl that I had ever seen.
And we were together most of senior year.
And as we got closer to senior prom, we began planning.
And when I say we began planning, what I really mean is that I began to sketch what we were going to wear to the prom.