The Moth Mainstage: Tightrope

The Moth Mainstage: Tightrope is a live storytelling show in which speakers tell true, personal stories on stage, presented in Chicago at The Auditorium Chicago. It is part of The Moth's mainstage series.

The Moth is a storytelling organization whose format is built around personal true stories told live, without notes, on a single stage. Tightrope takes its title from the balance such stories demand between honesty and craft, and the show is presented under The Moth Mainstage name. The performance is a spoken-word evening: speakers take turns telling their own experiences in front of an audience, so the emphasis falls on the voice and the narrative rather than on staging, music or dance.

The Auditorium Chicago, at 50 East Ida B. Wells Drive, is a venue that mainly hosts concerts and also stages theater productions. For a storytelling evening it offers a large hall with a stage set up for spoken performance.

The show suits adults and anyone interested in first-person narrative and live spoken word. Attending means listening to a sequence of individual stories, a format that rewards close attention.