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 your host, Jay Allison, producer of this radio show, and this is an hour about rules.
When my oldest daughter was small, we were sitting at the dining table and I felt a sharp pain in my leg.
I said, yow.
My daughter asked, what happened?
And her mother said, oh, I kicked daddy under the table without meaning to.
My daughter's face lit up and she asked, can I kick daddy under the table without meaning to?
There are lots of ways to bend the rules.
In this hour, our storytellers will be questioning the guidelines, official and self imposed.
The rules worth following and the ones made to be broken.
Well, start in childhood, work our way through the hard to abide by rules of teenagehood, and end with the rules we full grown adults follow or dont.
Our first teller, Steven Michael Carr, found a creative way to free himself from his schools restrictive reading system.
He told this at an open mic story slam in Louisville, where the moth is promotionally supported by Louisville Public Media.