Artist The Dollar Store
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The Dollar Store
Chicago-based spoken-word show The Dollar Store—the brainchild of writer Jonathan Messinger, who hosts this touring version here—has a simple concept: Writers are given an item purchased at a dollar store, and they take a month to come up with a story based on it. Naturally, the writers lean toward the strange and/or funny, spinning oddly evocative narratives around whatever chintzy plastic crap Messinger assigns them, making for a show that’s one part workshop, one part improv comedy, and one part friends just hanging out and cracking wise.
Updated 06/24/2009

Austin:
Jonathan Messinger and Zach Dodson of The Dollar Store
Chicago:
Jonathan Messinger and Zach Dodson of The Dollar Store and Featherproof Books
New York:
The Dollar Store and Featherproof Books