Urban Tellers®
Many of our stories are available on our YouTube channel. Be so kind as to Subscribe, Like, and Comment. Enjoy! Our work brings people together to share stories of our mutual human experience. To paraphrase playwright, Tarell Alvin McCraney, “This is theater as community. It is holy theater not because it exalts something on high, but because for the time onstage, the audience and the storyteller are one, and all those people, though each seeing and hearing it slightly differently, are following the same course and going on a journey together.” These live storytelling experiences have given people an inside look into the heart and soul of our community. Listeners are invited to embark on a shared experience that is a potent blend of vulnerability and heart. It’s an evening of discovery, connection, and honesty woven together in a tapestry of shared experiences. Portland Story Theater, Christa Morletti McIntyre tells us, “is a different place to be – one that nurtures experience, dignity, and the up-down staircase of being alive. The stories are about the person telling them, but more than that, they’re about the thread that unites us and takes us all to an even ground through the telling. You can read the entire piece: Once upon a time: true stories at Oregon Arts Watch.Urban Tellers® Online
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Armchair Adventurer
Each is a double CD ($20 USD) and the pricing includes shipping within the continental United States. Please contact us for additional pricing if you are wanting to ship outside of mainland USA. With this story Lawrence Howard takes the Armchair Adventure north, to Norway and Greenland and the New Siberian Islands, to Svarlbard and Spitzbergen and Franz Joseph Land. This story goes all the way back to the 1890’s, to the father of polar travel: the one and only Fridtjof Nansen. 2+ hours Buy now. The true, epic tale of Ernest Shackleton and the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914. Their valiant ship, The Endurance, was trapped in the pack ice and crushed; Shackleton and his 28 men survived on the ice for over a year and endured incredible hardships. 3+ hours Buy now. This is a story of heroic and tragic events in Antarctica when Scott and his companions fought their way to the Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him by five weeks. Crushed, utterly exhausted, and short on food and fuel, Scott and his team froze and starved to death, just 11 miles from a huge cache of provisions and supplies. 2+ hours Buy now. The Essex is the true story of a Nantucket whaling ship that was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in 1820, leaving 20 men in three small boats with very little food or water. This is the true story that became the inspiration for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Meticulously researched and historically accurate. 3+ hours Buy now. For more information, please visit Lawrence Howard’s Armchair Adventure page.Real Life Adventure Stories
These stories are all the more incredible because they really happened. Epic stories of great adventure, perseverance, and courage, created and told by Lawrence Howard and recorded before live audiences. Click here to purchase.