About The Event
“Always amazing”—Ira Glass, This American Life
“Wondrous”—Time Out
“Funny, touching, and inspiring”—Kara Swisher, Vox Media
“Beautiful”—Los Angeles Times
“Delightful”—Vulture
Imagine a comedy show, podcast, play, concert, and film—all wrapped into one night. That’s Pop-Up Magazine. In this unforgettable multimedia experience, renowned and emerging filmmakers, podcast producers, writers, artists, and more present true stories about the world around us. The event features illustration, sound, animation, photography, film, and an original score performed live by musical collaborators Magik*Magik Orchestra.
This will be Pop-Up Magazine’s final show, featuring some of our favorite stories from over the years. Presented with WNYC Studios.
With Cord Jefferson (Station 11, Watchmen, Succession, The Good Place), Stephanie Foo (New York Times bestselling author, What My Bones Know, This American Life), Jon Mooallem (This is Chance!, Wild Ones, New York Times Magazine), Laurel Braitman (What Looks Like Bravery, New York Times bestselling author, Animal Madness), Adrian L. Burrell (filmmaker, The Game God(S); artist), Chris Colin (Longer Tables with José Andrés, New York Times, Wired), Albert Samaha (BuzzFeed News, Concepcion, Never Ran, Never Will), and Brittany Spanos (Rolling Stone).
About The Organizer
Pop-Up Magazine is the acclaimed “live magazine” show, featuring original and unforgettable true stories, art, music, and performances from Oscar-winning filmmakers, New York Times bestselling authors, popular radio and podcast voices, and internationally-renowned artists—accompanied by illustration, animation, film, photography, and an original score performed onstage by our musical collaborators, Magik*Magik Orchestra. We’ve worked on journalistic storytelling projects with dancers, actors, shadow theater companies, musicians, an AI programmer, and a candymaker, commissioned editorial art for a vending machine and a t-shirt cannon, presented a science story with a medieval choral ensemble, and more.
Our touring productions travel across North America, selling out venues like Lincoln Center and BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York, the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, and Davies Symphony Hall and the Paramount Theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area. Join our mailing list for the latest news.
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