Garrison Keillor News

Award-winning arts documentary maker Phil Grabsky & Seventh Art Productions in association with BY Experience, the global leaders in alternative content, continue to connect major exhibitions from across the world with art lovers in more than 30 countries with their first of a kind series specifically for cinema, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN. The latest film in the series - Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure at the National Gallery, London screens worldwide on October 10, 2013.

The name has changed, but the mission remains the same: entertaining, educating and illuminating. As always, Park City Institute (formerly known as Park City Performing Arts Foundation) serves up a smorgasbord of eclectic, electrifying, awe-inspiring and internationally acclaimed dancers, musicians, family entertainers, speakers, actors and full throttle performance troupes. Park City Institute presents its 17th season at The George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Center for the Performing Arts from October through May. Tickets and season punch cards are currently on sale.

Summer is on its way out, but the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center brings the celebrities in all year long! From hilarious comedians and storytellers to iconic musicians and singers, the WHBPAC's presents it 2013 Fall MainStage Season of Events.

Garrison Keillor will once again be winding his way down the Mississippi River with his St. Paul-based radio program to Memphis, TN for a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday Oct 26th, from the Orpheum Theatre.

An outbreak of uncontrollable belly laughs is forecast for the trifecta of live comedy shows on tap over two consecutive weekends, October 12-19th at the Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Boulevard in downtown Aurora.

America's favorite storyteller Garrison Keillor will celebrate the quirks and idiosyncrasies of small-town America in an appearance at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Sunday, October 13 at 8:00pm. Tickets are $100 - $150 and are available online at www.whbpac.org.

'Don't touch that dial!' The Golden Age of Chicago radio drama returns. Oak Park Festival Theatre transports the Dining Room of the Nineteenth Century Club at 178 North Forest, Oak Park, Illinois, back in time to the 1940's for two performances: tonight, September 20 and Sunday, September 22.

The five-time Grammy-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus-Lisa Bielawa, Artistic Director, and Valerie Sainte-Agathe, Music Director and Principal Conductor-- will present two holiday concerts,December 6 and 22 at First Congregational Church in Berkeley and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, respectively. The 40-voice San Francisco Girls Chorus will present "Noel, Noel" Friday, December 6, at 8 pm at First Congregational featuring holiday favorites and an audience sing-along. These 40 award-winning young artists will be joined by the full complement of nearly 400 members of the San Francisco Girls Chorus School, from ages 5 to 18, for the annual Davies Hall holiday extravaganza, Sunday, December 22, at 8 pm. This year's edition, entitled "Hark, the Herald Angels Swing!" will feature the Marcus Shelby Quintet and Shelby's new arrangements of "Go Tell It On The Mountain" and "Hark the Herald" written especially for the San Francisco Girls Chorus plus other seasonal favorites and an audience sing-along. For more information, visit www.sfgirlschorus.org .

Award-winning arts documentary maker Phil Grabsky & Seventh Art Productions in association with BY Experience, the global leaders in alternative content, continue to connect major exhibitions from across the world with art lovers in more than 30 countries with their first of a kind series specifically for cinema, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN. The latest film in the series - Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure at the National Gallery, London screens worldwide on October 10, 2013.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present An Evening with Garrison Keillor on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m.

The Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has announced its events for September - October 2013. Details below!

Suzy Bogguss will play Bridge Street Live on Thursday, September 12th, 2013 at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $35 GA, $45 VIP. To order, visit http://41bridgestreet.inticketing.com/events/332372.

In a special presentation in which the brothers pay tribute to their dad -- the legendary Dave Brubeck, The Brubeck Brothers Quartet makes their Harris Center/Three Stages debut. "Dave Brubeck's music is rich with challenging chord progressions and beautiful melodies,' says Chris Brubeck. 'Dave is one of the biggest inspirations in all our lives, and we all thought it was time to salute his compositions, adding the BBQ's fresh approach to some of his most enduring tunes.'

Summer is on its way out, but the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center brings the celebrities in all year long! From hilarious comedians and storytellers to iconic musicians and singers, the WHBPAC's presents it 2013 Fall MainStage Season of Events.

'Don't touch that dial!' The Golden Age of Chicago radio drama returns. Oak Park Festival Theatre transports the Dining Room of the Nineteenth Century Club at 178 North Forest, Oak Park, Illinois, back in time to the 1940's for two performances: Friday, September 20 and Sunday, September 22.

This September, October and November, The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) will present Just Words: A Spoken Word Celebration, a series of groundbreaking performances by masters of language and celebrated spoken word organizations including renowned story-telling institution The Moth (on September 6), celebrated improv duo TJ & Dave (on October 11), and StarTalk Live! Hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson (on November 4). In a variety of exciting, thought-provoking shows and performances, The Town Hall will celebrate verbal expression and its boundless power to entertain and educate.

Broadway/San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation is taking audiences on an amazing theatrical journey with their upcoming 2013-2014 season, packed with Tony Award Winning, world-class productions of musicals presented at The San Diego Civic Theatre -and they have just added a few more! From the creators of "South Park" and winner of nine Tony Awards, THE BOOK OF MORMON will play a limited two-week engagement May 27-June 8, 2014. The New York Times calls it "the best musical of this century" and Entertainment Weekly says it's "the funniest musical of all time.'

The five-time Grammy-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus will open its 2013-2014 35th anniversary season Sunday, November 3, 2013, at 7 pm at Marines' Memorial Theatre in San Francisco with a concert of music both French and French-inspired, conducted by new Music Director and Principal Conductor Valerie Sainte-Agathe. The program, entitled French Impressions, will feature Poulenc's Les petites voix; Maurice Ohana's 4 petits choeurs, Debussy's Nuit d'etoiles, Morton Lauridsen's Dirait-on, Eric Whitacre's Seal Lullaby, Antoine Busnoys' "A que ville" (with soloist Lisa Bielawa, new Artistic Director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus) and works by other composers. For more information, visit www.sfgirlschorus.org .

The bases are loaded with musical theatre magic as TriArts Sharon Playhouse, under the leadership of Alice Bem and Executive Director and John Simpkins Artistic Director, presents the Tony Award-winning musical Damn Yankees from August 14-25 on the TriArts Mainstage (49 Amenia Road, Sharon).

On Wednesday, August 21 at 7pm at The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street), the first NYC Mayoral Democratic Primary Debate will take placemoderated by Errol Louis of NY1. A limited number of tickets to the debate are available free to the public and can be reserved by sending an email to debates@citizensunion.org or calling 212-227-0342, ext. 39. Reserved tickets can then be picked up on 8/21 beginning at 12pm and through 6:30pm at The Town Hall Box Office. Any available unreserved tickets will also be available the day of at the box office.