The Live Show

Wednesday, July 27
Clayton Opera House,
415 Riverside Drive,
Clatyon, NY

Doors open at 6 pm
Reception & Cash Bar 6 pm
Stories begin at 7 pm

Tickets are on sale now:

Buy Tickets online

Ticket prices vary. Phone orders and reservations: call the Clayton Opera House Box Office.
315-686-2200

The Line-up

Veteran storytellers:

Ophira Eisenberg (also the host):  Selected as one of New York Magazine's Top 10 Comics that "Funny People Find Funny," Ophira has appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Fresh Faces of Comedy. Her writing has been featured in five anthologies.

Faye Lane:  One of New York's most beloved storytellers, a winner of the Moth Story Slam and an NPR contributor.

Rashaunda Tyson:  A Moth Allstar.

Local:

Eric Olsen:  State Chaplain of NYS National Guard Joint Forces.  In the early days of the Iraq war, Eric  participated in a series of "Radio Diaries" for North Country Public Radio from his base north of Baghdad.

Kim Lunman:  An award-winning Canadian journalist from Brockville, and former national correspondent for the Globe and Mail. Recipient of a National Newspaper Award for feature writing and a National Newspaper Award citation of merit for enterprise reporting. Also nominated for a Michener Award, the highest honor in Canada for public service journalism.

The Moth Mainstage Live in Clayton 7/27

E v e r y o n e   h a s  a  s t o r y  t o  t e l l...

True stories told live on stage without scripts, notes, props or accompaniment.  Humorous and heartbreaking tales told with honesty, bravery and wit.

Funny. Sad. True.
Entertainment, enlightenment and festivity merge at every Moth show to create extraordinary and unforgettable evenings.

The Moth – hailed as “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket” by The Wall Street Journal – is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. The Moth has presented more than three thousand stories, told live and without notes, by people from all walks of life to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth features simple, old-fashioned storytelling on thoroughly modern themes by wildly divergent raconteurs who develop and shape their stories with The Moth’s directors.

Every Mainstage show features a theme and roster of storytellers, with an intensive creative process behind every story ensuring that each performer delivers an extraordinary piece of art. Past storytellers have included Malcolm Gladwell, Ethan Hawke, Margaret Cho, Sarah Jones, Salman Rushdie, an astronaut, a voodoo priestess, a pickpocket, a retired NYPD detective and hundreds more.

The Moth celebrates the ability of stories to honor the diversity and commonality of human experience, and to satisfy a vital human need for connection. The Moth helps storytellers from all walks of life to shape their stories and to share them with wide-ranging audiences. One goal of The Moth is to present the finest storytellers among established and emerging writers, performers and artists; another is to encourage storytelling among populations whose stories often go unheard.

Praise for The Moth

“New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket.”
--The Wall Street Journal

“What has rapidly become one of the hottest events in town…. The Moth is an evening of unashamedly old-fashioned storytelling… the performances are enthralling, funny and moving.”
--The Times (London)

“The most memorable and hilarious narratives... an exuberant moveable feast."
--Village Voice (Best of New York)

“The Moth has taken something that is so simple and primal and fundamentally human … and turned it into a thrilling, revelatory, moving and entertaining grass-roots art form.”
--Kurt Andersen, Studio 360

“Here, humor is mined […] by exposing one’s inner workings and establishing a connection with the audience.  It is why so many New Yorkers flock to The Moth.  It is why The Moth was such a hit the past three years at the Aspen Comedy Festival […]. And it is why storytelling is catching on across the country.”
--The Washington Post