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I dreamt up OUR BAR after a year of bartending in midtown Manhattan, listening to countless episodes of This American Life, and hearing a dear friend recount the wonder of a MOTH storytelling night. I had no idea it would grow into a continually sold out underground sensation.
Using a theme each month, some of New York’s finest actors build roughly ten scenes that could legitimately happen in that bar, that night. Audience members grab a drink, find a seat and watch the stories unfold. Somehow the block of wood that resides between bartender and customer gives strangers permission to open up in surprising and incredible ways. It is this dynamic that is at the heart of every OUR BAR.
Blending New Yorkers’ love of bar life, theater and tasty whiskeys, OUR BAR is carving out its own cult following.
I dreamt up OUR BAR after a year of bartending in midtown Manhattan, listening to countless episodes of This American Life, and hearing a dear friend recount the wonder of a MOTH storytelling night. I had no idea it would grow into a continually sold out underground sensation.
Using a theme each month, some of New York’s finest actors build roughly ten scenes that could legitimately happen in that bar, that night. Audience members grab a drink, find a seat and watch the stories unfold. Somehow the block of wood that resides between bartender and customer gives strangers permission to open up in surprising and incredible ways. It is this dynamic that is at the heart of every OUR BAR.
Blending New Yorkers’ love of bar life, theater and tasty whiskeys, OUR BAR is carving out its own cult following.