Garrison Keillor News

Omaha Performing Arts is pleased to announce the addition of four shows to its 2015/2016 season. Joining a lineup of more than 30 previously announced artists and ensembles are Wild Kratts - Live!, Engelbert Humperdinck, An Afternoon With Garrison Keillor and The Brubeck Brothers Jazz Quartet Tribute to Dave Brubeck.

Emmy- and Peabody-winning filmmaker Peter Rosen (American Masters - Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes, The Cliburn: Playing on the Edge) uncovers the story of legendary musician Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), the first truly modern violin virtuoso, for THIRTEEN's American Masters series.

Well known Americana music duo, Robin and Linda Williams, will be featured in Barter Theatre's upcoming production about Civil War strategist Stonewall Jackson.

Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion will bring its America the Beautiful Tour to the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) on Friday, August 7, 2015 at 8P.

.30-30 Productions presents the world premiere of 'How to Field Dress in Lilly Pulitzer', the one woman show written and performed by Cora Vasseur at The Gorilla Tango Theater Wednesday, April 29th at 8 pm.

Emmy- and Peabody-winning filmmaker Peter Rosen (American Masters Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes, The Cliburn: Playing on the Edge) uncovers the story of legendary musician Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), the first truly modern violin virtuoso, for THIRTEEN's American Masters series.

?Emmy- and Peabody-winning filmmaker Peter Rosen (American Masters - Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes, The Cliburn: Playing on the Edge) uncovers the story of legendary musician Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), the first truly modern violin virtuoso, for THIRTEEN's American Masters series.

Home By Dark will return to Gwinnett Performing Arts Center this summer, captivating audiences with an impressive lineup of songwriters and musicians.

Berkshire Theatre Group welcomes the Mount Holyoke Jazz Ensembles 10th annual The Big Broadcast! hosted by WWLP-TV personality Brian Lapis tonight, March 13, 2015 at 7pm at The Colonial Theatre.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts today announced the first 53 Summer 2015 performances at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. Tickets for these performances go on sale to the general public beginning at 10:00 a.m. March 21; Wolf Trap members (donors of $75 and up) have access to tickets now. A complete press kit, including print-ready images, may be found at wolftrap.org/press-and-media/press-kits; ticketing information and media information are also below.

Five Boroughs Music Festival's 2014-2015 Season continues in March with the genre- blurring "rock recital", GUNS N' ROSENKAVALIER! With arrangements by composer John Glover and baritone Andrew Wilkowske and English lyrics by Kelley Rourke, "Guns N' Rosenkavalier" melds art song with rock song, resulting in musical mashups spanning the works of Kate Bush and Brahms, REM and Strauss, and more.

National Radio Hall of Fame inductee and host of Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor will return to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall tonight, February 19 at 8pm.

Public radio station Michigan Radio (91.7 FM) and Olympia Entertainment will welcome America's favorite storyteller, Garrison Keillor, to the Fox Theatre on Saturday, May 30 at 5:45 p.m. for a special live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion.

Theatre Memphis' Next Stage has girded its loins and taken on the challenge of staging Michael Frayn's dense and difficult COPENHAGEN, and it must have known from the outset that such an esoteric piece will offer rewards to a select audience. The very title itself (though certainly appropriate) is not exactly audience-inviting; and the language, redolent with physics jargon and theories, is tantamount to watching a foreign film or listening to an opera without subtitles. Indeed, I had been warned by a very erudite theatregoer who had just seen it the previous night that there would be an exodus after intermission: There was. In spite of all this, the play can be richly rewarding for those who remain seated - even those whose only previous experience with physics came in the form of the woefully miscast Denise Richards as research physicist 'Dr. Christmas Jones' in the 'James Bond' adventure THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (my jaw dropped at that one - as it did recently while watching Jennifer Lopez assay the role of an instructor of classics in THE BOY NEXT DOOR . . . with 'Minnie Mouse'-voiced Kristen Chenowith as an Assistant Principal!)

The 60 member Sonoran Desert Chorale will be joined by sensational Arizona bluegrass band, Run Boy Run, for its upcoming March concert titled, Come To The Meetin'.

National Radio Hall of Fame inductee and host of Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor will return to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall February 19 at 8pm.

Nellie McKay visits a live radio institution!

NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Poet George Held and children's book artist Joung Un Kim have collaborated on a third picture book for children, NEIGHBORS The Water Critters. The title refers to certain fish, amphibians, and even mammals, that we find in our oceans, rivers, lakes, streams, and ponds. Through a set of witty, pithy, and accessible poems, children see that, like us, the critters need pure water to live, feed, and breed.

Berkshire Theatre Group welcomes the Mount Holyoke Jazz Ensembles 10th annual The Big Broadcast! hosted by WWLP-TV personality Brian Lapis on Friday, March 13, 2015 at 7pm at The Colonial Theatre.

Join Centenary Stage Company as they wrap up their annual January Jazz Fest on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. in the Sitnik Theater with the music of the legendary Django Reinhardt by Fete Manouche. The Sitnik Theater is located in the David and Carol Lackland Center on the campus of Centenary College.