Jack Hitt Plays Joe's Pub, Now thru 11/17

Jack Hitt will play the Joe's Pub at The Public stage to present his latest solo show MAKING UP THE TRUTH for three nights tonight, November 3 and November 11 & 17 at 7:00 PM.

In MAKING UP THE TRUTH, the Peabody Award-winning journalist, The Moth contributor and This American Life regular tells extravagant, almost unbelievable true stories. They take Hitt from his early childhood in South Carolina where his flamboyant neighbor, a British novelist, became global news as one of the world's first transsexuals, to New York where Hitt's apartment superintendent kept a deadly secret identity. MAKING UP THE TRUTH weaves these and other stories together with the latest experiments in cognitive research.

Scientists of the mind are now studying the mechanics of how we all narrate our own stories in our brains, and Hitt searches them out to answer the question everyone always asks him: "Why do these things always happen to you?" They don't, the experiments show. We are all making up the truth, often to shield ourselves from what Hitt discovers: the uncanny wonders that lie just beyond our brain's notice. And that tale, it turns out, is another extravagant, almost unbelievable true story.

Part scientific exploration, part one-man romp, Jack Hitt's MAKING UP THE TRUTH addresses the art of storytelling and the way the brain invents narratives. Watch the PBS Newshour interview with Hitt in which he talks about developing the show: http://bit.ly/R3aOK3

Ira Glass of This American Life says that Jack Hitt is "funny as hell, deeply curious about the world, and such a great raconteur." Recently, Hitt took to the New Yorker blog to display his razor-sharp humor in a post summarizing the conservative history of the United States. It became one of the New Yorker's most viral blogs of 2012. Read it here: http://nyr.kr/P7VwoX

MAKING UP THE TRUTH is written and performed by Jack Hitt, directed by Jessica Bauman, and produced by Aaron Louis in association with New Feet Productions & ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann. For more information on Jack Hitt, visit: http://thejackhittplay.com/