The Moth is a unique undertaking: a theatre devoted to the lost art of storytelling. Founded in 1997 by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, the Moth today performs to hundreds of people weekly at the hottest venues in New York and Los Angeles and has had guests like Suzanne Vega, Spalding Grey or Ethan Hawke. In the course of the evening people go upstage and tell a true story – or a tall tale – of their own lives which accords to the evening’s theme. The Moth grew out of a sore need of its founder to listen to stories. When he moved to New York from Georgia (almost 30 years ago), he realized that, as opposed to his experience in the South, nobody in New York had time to listen to anyone else finish a sentence, let alone tell a story. So he gathered people in his living-room to hear and tell stories, and when his apartment became too tight for that, the Moth, now considered as "the best regularly-held literary event" by the Village Voice, moved on to bigger venues. This Moth event, entitled "Stories about Comedies and Calamities", will take place at Symphone Space, a performing arts venue in Manhattan on May 21, and will host an audience of 760. All the tickets have been sold out. Guests will include Malcolm Gladwell, ex-New Yorker staff writer and author of nonfiction bestsellers The Tipping Point and Blink. Previously on HLO The Last Window-Giraffe in English: news The Last Window-Giraffe: a review | 
