Pop-Up Magazine's live-action show—a wondrous mash-up of storytelling, live music, visuals, podcast recordings and other performances—returns to the Bay Area next month as part of a four-city tour. The "Spring Issue" heads to Oakland on May 10, with a one-night-only show at the Paramount Theatre—and tickets are already on sale!
If you haven't been yet, let us try to explain:
Think of the show as a magazine come to life, its articles and photos and, yes, even ads materializing on stage as journalists, musicians, poets, filmmakers and other creatives breathe life into their work. All pieces performed at the show are new and unpublished, either created for the event or as part of a larger ongoing project. And nothing is recorded, so everything shared is a one-time only creative experience.
This spring tour—which will make stops in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Boston in addition to Oakland—is a who's who of photojournalists and producers, novelists and staff writers from some of the country's best magazines. This issue features a photographer’s look at the condolence gifts sent in the aftermath of mass shootings; a food correspondent’s analysis of Donald Trump’s favorite salad; a filmmaker’s discovery of the young children boxing their way out of poverty in Thailand; a true-crime story that begins at a sex therapy institute; and an advice column for a live audience.
Tickets to the show can be purchased here; the show starts at 7:30pm. See a performance that particularly moved you? Stick around afterwards, when performers, producers and the audience get together for drinks and conversation.