Mike Daisey's new show

The incomparable Mike Daisey has a new show that looks fabulous. I'm totally going. Tickets are $20 but if his past monologues are anything to go by, it'll be totally worth it. Coincidentally, I picked up his memoir 21 Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com the other day at the library (true confession: I had actually borrowed it before and never read it) and am really enjoying it so I recommend both. Mike just takes storytelling to a whole new level and talks and talks for a really long time and makes it sound so natural and also manages to weave several ideas together at once and keeps referencing them back. It's quite remarkable. Get tickets to TRUTH here.



TRUTH
{the heart is a million little pieces above all things}

A new monologue about James Frey, J.T. LeRoy,
Oprah, lying, and the struggle to tell the truth

Created and Performed by Mike Daisey

Opens October 5 for a Limited Engagement

"A charismatic performer, his shows have the insightful hostility of the best comedy."
--The New Yorker

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New York, NY - Ars Nova (voted "Best of New York" by New York Magazine) proudly presents Mike Daisey in a new monologue entitled TRUTH {the heart is a million little pieces above all things}. Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory, TRUTH plays a limited engagement beginning October 5 at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street). All tickets are $20.

TRUTH follows the fictional and nonfictional self-destruction A Million Little Pieces author James Frey, the sordid and shocking tale of non-existent, world famous transsexual author J.T. LeRoy, and the mystery of the wildly prolific multiple personalities of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Mike Daisey investigates the bizarre stories of these literary sensations and by reflecting his findings against his own history of lying and telling the truth this master storyteller illuminates the uncertain landscape of the emotionally true, the literally true, and the constant struggle to speak the truth.

MIKE DAISEY has been called "the master storyteller" and "one of the finest solo performers of his generation" by The New York Times for his monologues, including 21 Dog Years, Great Men of Genius, The Ugly American, Monopoly!, Invincible Summer, I Miss the Cold War, Wasting Your Breath, and Stories From the Atlantic Night Cafe which he's performed Off-Broadway, across the country and around the world. He's been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, and his work has been heard on the BBC, NPR, the National Lampoon Radio Hour, and his groundbreaking series All Stories Are Fiction. Currently he's a commentator for National Public Radio's Day To Day, a contributor to WIRED, Slate, Salon, and his writing appears in the anthology The Best Tech Writing 2006. His first book, 21 Dog Years: A Cubedweller's Tale, was published by the Free Press and he is working on a second book, Happiness Is Overrated, a collection of essays dedicated to the proposition its title asserts.