new tricks stories
New Trick Stories: Storytelling treats by a pack of old dogs! Now going into its fourth year… New Tricks Stories: an exciting storytelling show where all the storytellers are of a “certain age.” With award-winning performers from RISK!, PBS’s Stories From The Stage, Story Collider, The Moth and more!
With a different theme every month, New Tricks keeps it real as the five rotating performers over forty take storytelling to a whole new level. They have the resilience, the humor and heartbreak that spice up their stories to create a uniqueness that only come with time. Going from humorous to reflective, heartfelt to inspirational, they highlight the depth that comes with age and experience.
In 2003, host Adrianne Frost got a little tired of doing storytelling shows where she was the only 50-something on the stage. She felt out of place, out of line, and out of sync. And she didn’t feel heard. Adrianne knew she wasn’t alone. She had a lot of storytelling friends who were over the age of forty weren’t getting tapped for shows because of their age or felt out of place being the only older performer in a twenty-something line-up, so she decided to start her own show: New Tricks Stories, a show for performers over forty for everyone to hear. The performers poured in, new and experienced. Almost four years later, it’s still running!
Whether you’re twenty or eighty, you’ll love New Tricks, because it’s the stories that matter. And the people that tell them. At this show you’ll laugh, cry, and wonder what it was like to use a dial phone. Grab a drink while you listen to marvelous stories from voices that you only get with decades of living. They start at forty and go to fabulous.
Screw Ageism! Screw The Substance! Screw AI & Chat GPT! Come and see New Tricks! You won’t want to miss it!
Run Time: 80 minutes
Age Recommendation: 15+