I’m about to go to Boston for a few days to work at the Huntington with journalist Jack Hitt to work on Jack’s solo performance piece, Making Up the Truth. We are blending some of Jack’s amazing stories (several of which have been heard in different forms on This American Life) with the neuroscience of perception and self to celebrate the wild and unpredictable world we all live in, but rarely let ourselves see. If you’re in Boston on Sept 24, come check it out.

We’ll also be at New York Theater Workshop on Monday Oct 18 at 3pm.

Here’s all the info:

Jack Hitt tells extravagant, true tales – a yarn about the childhood neighbor who was one of the first men to become a woman, or his first apartment super with a deadly secret identity. But, the stories always lead people to ask, did that really happen? The Atlantic Monthly recently called This American Life contributor Jack Hitt “one of America’s best storytellers.” In his new show MAKING UP THE TRUTH, he shares his stories and learns that, of all things, new scientific breakthroughs point to an answer to that question: Do extraordinary things only happen to certain people, or do we all swim unaware in a sea of the uncanny and unbelievable?

Friday, Sept 24 at 7pm, Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, 527 Tremont St, Boston

rsvp: huntingtontheatre.org/makingup