Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Pop-Up Magazine: Love Stories

“Sweeping the nation with live performances of human interest stories…like an emotionally intellectual rock concert.”—Playbill

Pop-Up Magazine is the acclaimed live magazine show, featuring original and unforgettable true stories, art, music, and performance from the world’s great and emerging storytellers and journalists, accompanied by illustration, animation, film, photography, and an original score performed onstage by our musical collaborators, Magik*Magik Orchestra. Imagine a comedy show, play, concert, podcast, and film—all wrapped into one night.

Pop-Up Magazine will embark on a themed tour this fall: Love Stories. First loves and blind dates, heartbreak and missed connections, life-long companionship and chosen family. What does love mean to you? Pop-Up Magazine: Love Stories will explore powerful, hilarious, and moving stories about love in different forms: marriage, friendship, self-love, redemption, longing, and so much more.

With support from Google, Pop-Up Magazine: Love Stories will feature ASL interpreters, open captioning, and ADA accessible seating. For more information, please visit their FAQ.

Contributors to Pop-Up Magazine: Love Stories include writer and actor Ryan O’Connell (Netflix’s Special; Peacock’s Queer as Folk; author of I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves), poet Sarah Kay (Project VOICE), musician Victoria Canal (Elegy EP), author and artist Chanel Miller (NYT bestselling memoir Know My Name), radio producer Rachael Cusick (Radiolab), filmmaker Nadav Kurtz (Paraiso, a Sundance Film Festival selection), comedian Pamela Rae Schuller (“What Makes Me Tic”), director Ben-Alex Dupris (“Sweetheart Dancers”) and more.

You can learn more at popupmagazine.com/lovestories.

“A sensation” – New York Times
“Beautiful” – Los Angeles Times
“Delightful humanity” – New York Magazine
“Better than comedy, better than film, better than theater. I laughed, I cried.”—Uproxx
“Picture sitting down with your smartest friends and consuming a magazine with the help of erudite narrators and live musical accompaniment….Your live event-starved senses will thank you.”—KQED

Masks will be required to attend this performance. Click here for more information on this policy.

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