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 2015 at National Sawdust. in 2016, The Tell started a residency at The Jane Hotel Ballroom that lasted till the Jane’s closing in 2023. Since then, The Tell has been hosted at New York locations like Georgia Room, Jean’s, and Conwell Cocktail Hall. Michael has also hosted four installments in Los Angeles, one in london, and two in paris.

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,