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He is the long-running host of The Moth in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. [4] He has written for the television shows Dickinson and Better Things . [citation needed] In February 2020, Thomas published the essay collection, Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America. The book was a Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick. [5]
The Moth is a nonprofit group based in New York City, dedicated to the craft of storytelling. [1] Founded in 1997, the organization presents a wide range of theme-based storytelling events across the United States and abroad, often featuring prominent literary and cultural personalities [1] alongside everyday people like veterans, astronauts, school teachers, and parents.
While the Met owned the MOH, it also rented the venue to other opera companies for their performances. The theater was the home of the Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company between 1911 and 1914. [8] The Philadelphia Operatic Society also used the house during and after the Met's tenure, through 1924.
Trocadero newspaper advertisement in The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 4, 1909. The theater, designed by architect Edwin Forrest Durang, then modified several times, was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1973, and to the National Register of Historic Places five years later.
The 60,000-plus-seat "Vet" accommodated MLB's Philadelphia Phillies and the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles for just over three decades before it was itself replaced by two new facilities. In 2003 the Eagles moved to Lincoln Financial Field , a purpose-built football/soccer stadium located SE of the Spectrum site directly across 11th Street from the ...
While in that position, she created the short-form Moth Podcast in 2008 and The Moth Radio Hour in 2009 with a broadcast launch to more than 70 public radio stations. [8] [9] The show won a Peabody Award in 2010. [10]
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts (formerly known as the Robin Hood Dell West and Mann Music Center) is a nonprofit performing arts center located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park, built in 1976 as the summer home for the Philadelphia Orchestra. It is the successor in this role to the Robin Hood Dell ...
Miller Theater, originally the Sam S. Shubert Theatre and later, the Merriam Theater, is Philadelphia's most continuous location for touring Broadway shows. It is located at 250 South Broad Street within the Avenue of the Arts cultural district of Center City Philadelphia. The Theatre was built by The Shubert Organization in 1918.