The Moth: The Moth returns to Tarrytown after a sold-out engagement in 2017 with their humorous, heartbreaking and true stories told live on stage. No script. No props. Just a microphone, a spotlight and room full of strangers. The producers of the popular Moth Podcast and Radio Hour which airs on WNYC and won a 2010 Peabody Award, The Moth has presented more than fifteen thousand stories to standing-room-only crowds worldwide.
They have also published three critically acclaimed books including the 2019 Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible that debuted at #12 on The New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Best-Seller List.
The Moth began on a back porch in small-town Georgia, where our founder—poet and best-selling novelist George Dawes Green— would spend sultry summer evenings swapping spellbinding tales with a small circle of friends. There was a hole in the screen, which let in moths that were attracted to the light, and the group started calling themselves “The Moths.” When he moved to New York City, George wanted to recreate the feeling of those nights in his adopted city. The first New York Moth event was heldin George’s living room. But word spread fast, and the events soon moved to cafes and clubs throughout the city—and soon to popular venues throughout the country and beyond.
An event every week that begins at 9:45 am on Sunday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until December 1, 2024