Front Parlor Series: Storying Telling Show

Every second Wednesday, we gather for a night of true stories, told without notes in about five minutes around a topic or theme.

Doors open at 7:00pm, sign-up is at 7:15pm, and showtime is 7:30pm. The theme is announced each month. Check Front Parlor's Instagram (@frontparlorseries) for announcements.

If you’re familiar with The Moth, it’s kind of like that. Tellers volunteer their names in a can, and the MC selects the order at random. (Bribes encouraged.) Front Parlor also features “flash nonfiction”: one- or two-sentence, audience-submitted stories responding to a prompt based on the evening’s theme. It’s a relatively painless (and anonymous) way to share your stories.

The Front Parlor Series began as the Front Parlor Trojan Storytelling Series at the Ale House in Troy, NY, in February 2011. The series expanded to Albany, with monthly open mics in both cities for about eight years. After events moved online during the Covid-19 pandemic, in-person open mics returned to Troy in July 2021. Albany is still on hiatus.