Ira Glass, the award-winning creator, producer and host of NPR's "This American Life" brings "Seven Things I've Learned: An Evening With Ira Glass" to the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) Saturday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. Media sponsor for this event is WBEZ 91.5 FM.
Using audio clips, music, and video, Glass shares lessons from his life and career in storytelling and gives insight into what inspires him to create, what drives his passion, and how failures and successes informed his decisions. During his presentation,
Ira Glass will mix stories live onstage and help his audience better follow the creative process of one of our foremost storytellers.
Glass started working in public radio in 1978, when he was 19, as an intern at NPR's headquarters in DC. Over the next 17 years, he worked on nearly every NPR news show and did nearly every production job they had: tape-cutter, desk assistant, newscast writer, editor, producer, reporter, and substitute host. He spent a year in a high school for NPR, and a year in an elementary school, filing stories for "All Things Considered." He moved to Chicago in 1989 and put "This American Life" on the air in 1995. "This American Life" celebrated its 20th anniversary last year and, under Glass's editorial direction, has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including five Peabody awards. The American Journalism Review has hailed the show is "at the vanguard of a journalistic revolution." "This American Life" currently reaches 2.2 million listeners on more than 500 public radio stations in the U.S., Australia and Canada, with another 2.2 million downloading each podcast. For years, it was the most popular podcast on iTunes, until the "This American Life" staff created the program "Serial," which ran for two seasons and had more than 10 million people downloading each episode.
McAninch Arts Center, located at 425 Fawell Blvd. on the campus of College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, presents "Seven Things I've Learned: An Evening With
Ira Glass" Saturday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $69-$76. For tickets or more information visit AtTheMAC.org or call the MAC Box Office at
630.942.4000.
An exclusive meet-and greet with Glass will take place prior to the show. Only 40 tickets are available. The $175 ticket price includes meet-and-greet access and Gold Circle seating.
About the MAC
McAninch Arts Center (MAC) at College of DuPage is located 25 miles west of Chicago near I-88 and I-355, and houses three performance spaces (the 780-seat proscenium Belushi Performance Hall; the 236-seat soft-thrust Playhouse Theatre; and the versatile black box
Studio Theatre), plus the Cleve Carney Art Gallery, classrooms for the college's academic programming and the Lakeside Pavilion. The MAC, now celebrating its 30th Anniversary, has presented theater, music, dance and visual art to more than 1.5 million people since its opening in 1986 and typically welcomes more than 75,000 patrons from the greater Chicago area to more than 230 performances each season.
The mission of the MAC is to foster enlightened educational and performance opportunities, which encourage artistic expression, establish a lasting relationship between people and art, and enrich the cultural vitality of the community. For more information about the MAC, visit AtTheMAC.org, facebook.com/AtTheMAC or twitter.com/AtTheMAC.
