Live show to hit the US

The Onion is to go on the road.

The satirical magazine and website is about to announce a live show that will tour the States, produced with long-established improv outfit The Second City.

In a statement, the publishers said that audiences will learn ‘the Onion's journalism secrets through a series of presentations from the same news and lifestyle experts who train The Onion's handsome, knowledgeable staff’.

It will be The Onion’s first stage show, but it has always been keen to transfer its wit to other media. Launched in 1988 as a university magazine, it went on to embrace the web, and now boasts 7.5million visitors a month. Based, like Second City, in Chicago, the Onion has has spawned books, radio shows, a TV series and a direct-to-video movie in 2008.

The Onion Live! tour begins in Columbus, Ohio, on September 28 and will run through the winter.

Last month, the magazine found itself in the headlines after a misunderstood tweet about nine-year-old Oscar-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis – prompting president Steve Hannah to discipline writing staff.

The Onion later printed a news story headlined: New Study Finds ‘The Onion’ Has Never Been More Popular, More Beloved, Or More Respected

Published: 8 Mar 2013