THE TELL is a monthly live storytelling and music series Hosted and Curated by Michael Leviton. Each installment, four storytellers tell true stories from their lives in an improvised conversational style, the way they'd tell them to friends or at a party.

Michael picks the storytellers, tending toward stories of the bizarre, the chaotic, the hard-to-relate-to, and the morally ambiguous. 

a "tell" is a gambler's unwitting mannerism that accidentally reveals the hand.

The Tell began in Oct. 2015 at National Sawdust. 

in Dec. 2016, The Tell moved to The Jane Hotel.

After The Jane Hotel’s closing in Dec. 2022, The Tell moved to Georgia room inside Freehand NY.

THE TELL has featured stories from filmmakers, public defenders, musicians, activists, actors, comedians, writers, a realtor, photographers, a private detective, a performance artist, music critics, a sex Coach, a hypnotherapist, and many other local characters,