Our Friends at Occupy the Empty Space Theater Festival will be here all month gearing up for next month’s installment! Here are photos of the Crossing Desolation rehearsal.

Tonight! A storytelling double-header to close out NYSTF! 

• At 8pm: Sideshow Goshko. Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko (Sirius XM, WNYC, Manhattan Monologue Slam Champ) invites some of NY’s top writers and storytellers to share true, bizarre tales about their lives. There’s live accordion music, a challenging trivia game, and a free wine giveaway where one lucky audience member will walk away with their very own bottle of Sideshow Sauce! Tonight’s stellar lineup includes stories from:John Flynn (UCB Theater, winner of Backstage Bistro Award for Outstanding Comedy), Carter Edwards (author “The Aversive Clause,” UCB Theater), Cammie Climaco (host of “Ask Me Stories”) & music by Dr. Leona Godin
• At 10pm: Using It. Let’s get this off our chest, already! Three storytellers heave a collective sigh before embarking on a provocative and sometimes ridiculously funny journey relating the events that have made them who they are.

Becky Flaum comes to the Tank to host “My Bad” as part of the New York Storytelling Festival tonight! Get tickets here.

• Becky Flaum herself, with a spoon!
• Kat Burdick
• Dana Rossi
• Rory Scholl

We just wanted to warn you about what you’d be getting into if you’re coming to see “True Story” with Moscow River Sharks tonight. Yeah, we don’t know either. All we know is that we’ll get a good amount of honest-to-Betsy truth and beer tonight at the NY Storytelling fest! Tickets are available here.

Photos from the first night of the New York Storytelling Festival with Drawn Out Storytelling. For night 2, we welcome The Spoken Nerd!

Presenting…the line up for The Spoken Nerd - “EPIC FAIL” at the New York Storytelling Festival tonight. It be an exciting live talk show with stories, science and BURLESQUE! Our glasses are getting all steamy thinking about it. Get tickets here!

• Cyndi Freeman
• Mary Cyn
• Jeff Simmermon
• Nelson Lugo