Ladies and gentlemen! Once a year, we here at AGTV World Headquarters think back on the past ten years (!!) of amazing storytelling, and then we try and choose a half-dozen of our absolute favorite stories to present at our Best Of show. (These are tough choices to make; we have waaaaaay too many great stories to choose from.) This year’s Best Of show is going to be amazing. We’ve got six of our favorite storytellers lined up for this show. It happens at Theatre Off Jackson on Tuesday, November 29th. Doors open at 7 pm for an 8 pm show. Get yer tickets in advance for $8, or buy a seat at the door for $10. See you there!
As the days get shorter, darker, and colder, we here at AGTV World Headquarters start thinking about one things. Pumpkin pies and our annual Ghost Stories show on Tuesday, October 25th. (OK, two things.) Come hear a collection of first-person, true-ish stories about hauntings, unexplained phenomena, creepy events, and things that go bump in the night. And learn a little bit about the ghostly history of Seattle. This show is total spooky fun, and one of our most popular shows. Buy advance tickets for $8.00 via Brown Paper Tickets. And if you have a creepy story you’d like to share, get in touch! We looooove hearing creepy stories. Email us: aguidetovisitors@gmail.com.
AGTV’s next show, on August 16th, is an exploration of going to school and getting schooled. Formal education and informal education, private school and school of hard knocks. We want to hear your first person, true-ish narratives about school and getting educated. Drop us an email at aguidetovisitors@gmail.com with your story pitch, and tell us about your most surprising, most memorable experiences getting some learning.
There are times in life when it’s incredibly tempting to check up on someone else. To learn their secrets. To uncover what’s true and what’s a big bag of crazy lies. On soap operas, the truth always comes out and nobody has to do anything to help it along. But in real life, things aren’t that easy. And you have to undertake your own investigation.
On Tuesday, June 7th, A Guide To Visitors presents DETECTIVE STORIES. A hand-picked collection of stories about investigating and being investigated. This show, ladies and gentlemen, is not to be missed.
You can buy tickets in advance for 8 bucks, or pay at the door the night of the show for 10 bucks. Doors open at 7 pm for an 8 pm show. We’re Upstairs at Theatre Off Jackson, which is a 21+ space.
And, of course, if you have a story you’d like to pitch, drop us a line at aguidetovisitors@gmail.com.
The acting teacher Constantin Stanislavski taught his students that physical action is inherently linked with emotion. And because of that link, actors can use physical actions to access emotions. For example, an actor may not feel sad, but she can hunch over and hold her head in her hands. And if she focuses on the physicality of crying, then soon enough, she’d actually feel sad enough to really cry. In other words, Stanislavski was a big proponent of “fake it till ya make it”.
AGtV presents true, first-person stories about faking it and the consequences of faking it (sadly, not everyone “makes it”). If you think you’ve got a story for this show, drop us a line at aguidetovisitors@gmail.com. Advance tickets available via Brown Paper Tickets; seats $10 the night of the show. See you Tuesday, April 5th!
British poet John Lyly is credited with coining the phrase “All’s Fair In Love And War”. And it means the rules we all follow so we can swim along relatively peacefully in our lives do not apply in love or in war. Ladies and gentlemen, we want to hear your stories about love and about war. Drop us a line at aguidetovisitors@gmail.com with your true, first-person story pitch.
The show happens on Tuesday, February 8th at the upstairs space at Theatre Off Jackson. Tickets are $8.00 in advance and $10.00 at the door. This is a 21+ show. Doors open at 7; the show starts at 8. See you on February 8th!
Over the past 9 years, we here at AGTV have heard a lot of amazing stories. There is no way we can collect all that goodness and present it in one show. It would make everyone’s heads explode (including ours). BUT – we have brought back several of our favorite, most memorable stories (and storytellers!) for this special 9th anniversary celebration show. We couldn’t be more excited about this show.
Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 the night of the show. Doors open at 7 for an 8 pm show. 21+; ASL interpretation provided!
Ladies and gentlemen! KUOW has started airing “A Guide To Visitors: Storytelling In Seattle”. It’s an 8-part show airing every Monday night at 8 pm on KUOW. The first hour (featuring the awesome Nick Morrison, Richard Green, Bridget Quigg, and Luke Burbank) aired on Labor Day; Hour 2 (featuring the awesome John Gastil, Willie Weir, Mary Rheaum, and Darcey Quinn) airs this coming Monday. And if you’re not an appointment-radio kind of person, no worries. You can listen to every kick ass hour of “A Guide To Visitors: Storytelling In Seattle” here.
Unexplained phenomena! Haunted places! Things that go bump in the night! We here at AGTV think there’s nothing more fun than hearing stories about that stuff. If you agree, don’t miss our 8th Annual Ghost Stories show. It’s a hair-raising collection of true stories about spooky things. Buy tickets at Brown Paper Tickets. And if you have a ghost story to tell, for Pete’s sake email us at aguidetovisitors@gmail.com!
Most of us get all kinds of weird pressure to act a certain way because we are:
black, white, gay, straight, male, female. . . human!
Identity is political, and while that can be a total pain, it’s also fodder for some great stories.