2nd Story is thrilled to launch the first issue of our print publication, 2D!
 Featuring stories written and performed for 2nd Story, 2D brings storytelling out of the wine bars and into your hands—plus, it's free!
Join us for our 2D release party on May 28th at Red Kiva, featuring performances by Rosie Forrest, Bobby Biedrzycki and Kimberee Soo with music by Seeking Wonderland! May 4, 2008
2nd Story classes at Uptown Writer's Space!
Open to everyone regardless of writing and/or performance experience, this workshop is for people looking to enhance their storytelling skills, be it for the stage or just out and about (and tipsy) with your friends. Strongly suggested for people looking to submit to 2nd Story. May 22, 2008 @ The Uptown Writer's Space. Learn more. May 2, 2008
New Podcast Episode: Plan B
Through thick and thin, highs and lows, awesome adventures and hideous relationships, Molly Each has always been able to count on her best friend. In addition to solid friendship and hilarious hijinks, the fact that he's a guy means she can count on him to be there in the end if all other relationships have failed. But what happens to their friendship when her Plan B guy joins the married world? Listen now via iTunes. Apr 29, 2008
2nd Story Performs at the Goodman Theatre for Looptopia
2nd Story is THRILLED to be performing at The Goodman Theatre for Looptopia, Chicago's all-night celebration of Arts and Culture!
On Friday, May 2nd from 11:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. 2nd Story storytellers Ric Walker, Matt Miller, and Megan Stielstra, featuring Miles Polaski on sound, will be telling stories at The Goodman. With, of course, WINE! And, apparently, 100,000 people?! Did we READ that right??
Apr 14, 2008
Tickets On Sale for the 2008 Festival
Yippee! Tickets are officially on sale for the 2008 2nd Story Festival taking place between April 24-May 11 at Webster's Wine Bar. We also have two festival preview nights on April 13 and April 20.
This year's festival features 54 new stories and over 5,000 glasses of wine! Come help us drink some of them! Mar 31, 2008
Literally Sexy: A Very Sexy Variety Show
Join 2nd Story storytellers Margot Bordelon, CP Chang, Kim Morris, and Nick Ward for Victory Gardens Theater's Literally Sexy, a late night variety show focused on all things sex! Burlesque, drag, erotica, comedy, all in one hot night. Enjoy cocktails, music, and shop the arousing wares of G Boutique. Including a titillating mix of Chicago ’s freshest performing artists including 2nd Story, The Neo-Futurists, GayCo Productions, The Flaming Dames, and Time Out Chicago’s sex columnist Dr. Debby Herbenick. All hosted by femme fatale, David Cerda of Hell in a Handbag Productions. Plus, drink specials, wine samples from Naked Winery, and the arousing wares of G Boutique.
Friday, April 11th, 10:30 pm, $15 (use the code: “Story” for $5 off) at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater. Mar 30, 2008
New Podcast Episode: My First...
Join Jeffrey, the young budding writer, for one unusual music-filled summer night full of many surprising firsts, beginning with a Parisian-style artist salon populated with drunk poets, dancing painters and... oh, yeah, fighting jugglers too. Listen now via iTunes. Listen now via iTunes. Mar 20, 2008
New Podcast Episode: The Girls
The nights are silent, but a bit uncomfortable in Bobby Biedrzycki's eerie Christmas tale The Girls. The story chronicles the experiences of a young boy, and his attempt to make sense of the world around him, as local girls begin to go missing from his small Minnesota town during what is supposed to be an otherwise happy holiday season. Listen now via iTunes. Feb 20, 2008
Welcome new Storytellers
2nd Story is pleased as punch to introduce several new storytellers who will be joining us in 2008! Say hello to Ian Bacchus, CP Chang, Julie Ganey, Debbie Hogan, Deb Lewis, Justin Palmer, Julie Sadowski, and Shaun Whitley. Feb 15, 2008
New Podcast Episode: Birthday Suit
Working overtime on her 26th birthday, Margot Bordelon receives a surprise visitor: an aging woman dressed in a dingy, pink gorilla suit, who just won't stop singing. Listen now via iTunes! Jan 20, 2008
2nd Story on Chicago Public Radio
In a new partnership with 91.5 FM WBEZ Chicago, 2nd Story is now on the radio! 2nd Story is so lovingly put together that it's impossible to name everyone who's had a hand in this hour. But this time 'round, the show features stories by Matt Miller, Kimberlee Soo, Megan Stielstra, and Ric Walker—who also serves as our host. Plus, there's original music and sound design by Mikhail Fiksel (aka DJ White Russian) and Miles Polaski. Listen to our inuagural broadcast via ChicagoPublicRadio.org. Jan 13, 2008
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Upcoming Shows
May 8-11 / Week 3 of the 2008 Festival
May 28 @ Red Kiva / 2D Release Party!
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