Garrison Keillor News

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced jazz programming running May 8 through May 21.

Peter and Will Anderson present the life and music of Duke Ellington, with an entertaining narrative and live quintet performance.  Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington (1899-1974), arguably the most prolific American composer of all time, broke musical barriers of popular music and created a distinctive compositional style traveling with his jazz orchestra around the world for over fifty years. 

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced jazz programming running May 2 through May 14.

See photos from opening night of Robin and Me: My Little Spark of Madness.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have released details on all jazz programming running April 25 through May 7.

After a COVID-induced delay of nearly three years, Contra Costa Civic Theatre will bring the very first production of To Master the Art to Bay Area audiences.

Peter and Will Anderson present the life and music of George Gershwin, with an entertaining narrative and live sextet performance.  One of the most striking geniuses of modern music, George Gershwin composed for Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, film, radio, and symphony orchestras, combining the sounds of jazz and European classical music.

'The Andersons play Cole Porter' comes to Symphony Space next month. Performances are on Saturday, March 11th at 2:00pm & 4:30pm.

Garrison Keillor at 80 with Heather Masse & Richard Dworsky announced at Orpheum Theater in Sioux Falls, Friday, March 3, 2023. Tickets on sale Friday, February 3, 10 a.m. A special online only presale takes place Thursday, February 2, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.

Even if Garrison Keillor fans can't attend the December 15th Prairie Home performance at St. Louis's Fabulous Fox, they can take a break from the holiday whirlwind and tune in to the livestream at 7:00 p.m. CT (8:00 p.m. ET).

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report the death of Broadway press agent Susan L. Schulman.

Prairie Home Companion creator comes to Jaffrey theatre on April 29.

The Park Theatre has announced that Garrison Keillor has been booked to perform on April 29 next year. Tickets for this special live event will go on sale on Thanksgiving Day.

Take a break from the whirlwind of holiday shopping and cooking and decorating and planning, and schedule some plain old fun. We've got just the thing for you — and your visiting relatives too: On Thursday, December 15, Garrison Keillor takes his Prairie Home Companion Christmas Show to St. Louis's Fabulous Fox Theatre.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this September with a full slate of nightly performances!

Garrison Keillor and Company will bring their signature humor, music, no end of fun, and, of course, all the latest News from Lake Wobegon when Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion American Revival heads to The Anthem in Washington DC and New York City's iconic The Town Hall.

Teatro Paraguas will host a poetry reading with renowned poets Richard Vargas, Margaret Randall and Demetria Martinez on Friday, June 24 at 6:00 p.m.

Donald Levering's 16th book of poetry, Breaking Down Familiar, grapples with a host of harrowing assaults to the narrator and his family: illness and accidents, addiction and madness, estrangement and divorce.

The new season includes an assortment of iconic superstars, innovative tribute shows, dance, jazz, comedy, plus a robust music, holiday and variety lineup, one of the best Broadway seasons in years and more than two dozen shows making their McCallum debuts. Find out the full calendar and how to get tickets.

The Musicians of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, the not-for-profit organization known as MOSSO, have engaged a management team to assist them in producing live classical music concerts for Greater Springfield and Western Massachusetts.