Ira Glass News

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 8 p.m. Tickets are available for $49, $59 or $69 through www.ScottsdalePerformingArts.org or (480) 499-TKTS (8587).

BroadwayWorld brings you the Best of Vermont in the year 2012. Check out the Top Theatre Stories from each month during in the year 2012. We look forward to another exciting year of theatre in 2013!

IFC Films announced today that director Mike Birbiglia's critical and box office hit Sleepwalk With Me will be available to purchase exclusively on iTunes in the US & Canada from December 4th through December 17th. Beginning December 18th, fans will also be able to rent the film on iTunes.

This fall, road warriors Davy and Peter Rothbart are hurtling your way on FOUND Magazine's 10th Anniversary Tour! For a decade, the FOUND team has collected and published anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life -- love letters, birthday cards, to-do lists, poetry on napkins, anything goes! Heartwarming, hilarious, and outrageous submissions pour in each month from readers around the world. Now the Rothbarts are hopping back in the tour van for an exciting cross-country romp through 37 states and 79 cities.

Sundance Channel unveiled its 2013/2014 original scripted development slate today, revealing five provocative new dramas that put an emphasis on non formulaic characters and a daring approach to storytelling.

Jack Hitt will play the Joe's Pub at The Public stage to present his latest solo show MAKING UP THE TRUTH for three nights tonight, November 3 and November 11 & 17 at 7:00 PM.

2012 Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer recreates his Tony Award winning role in the film adaptation of BARRYMORE, directed & adapted by Érik Canuel, which will be theatrically released jointly by BY Experience and Image Entertainment beginning Thursday, November 15 in New York and Los Angeles. BARRYMORE is based on the play by William Luce.

NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, along with Gotham Arts Exchange, presents a special encore performance of Monica Bill Barnes & Company with Ira Glass tonight, October 20, 2012 at 8pm at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), NYC. Tickets are $26 and are available by phone at 212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111 or online at nyuskirball.org.

Jack Hitt will play the Joe's Pub at The Public stage to present his latest solo show MAKING UP THE TRUTH for three nights on November 3, 11 & 17 at 7:00 PM.

NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, along with Gotham Arts Exchange, presents a special encore performance of Monica Bill Barnes & Company with Ira Glass on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 8pm and Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 3pm at the NYU Skirball Center, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), NYC. Tickets are $26 and are available by phone at 212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111 or online at nyuskirball.org.

NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, along with Gotham Arts Exchange, presents a special encore performance of Monica Bill Barnes & Company with Ira Glass on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 8pm at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), NYC. Tickets are $26 and are available by phone at 212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111 or online at nyuskirball.org.

Actors Theatre's 2012-13 season brings five plays to Stage West at The Herberger Theater Center beginning with Mike Daisey's controversial The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (tonight, Sept. 21-Oct. 7) and ending with the critically acclaimed Good People (May 3-19) by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire.

ImprovBoston is giving people a chance to experience the scenes, stories, and monologues of Ira Glass' This American Life with the return of This Improvised Life, only this will be real life with an improv spin. The show is set to run Friday nights at 10 p.m. from September 14-October 19 on ImprovBoston's Mainstage. Tickets to each show cost $18 and $14 with a valid student ID. ImprovBoston is located at 40 Prospect Street. Tickets and more information are available online at www.improvboston.com.

Ira Glass brings his show tonight, September 8, 2012, to Benaroya Hall. It has been two years since his last Seattle appearance. This American Life fans are passionate about the show's content and Ira Glass's recent, and now legendary, "Retraction Episode" with former Seattle resident and playwright Mike Daisey is expected to add fuel to the fan's desire to see host and producer, Ira Glass, live

Sleepwalk With Me, a film by Mike Birbiglia and co-writer Ira Glass (host of the NPR radio show 'This American Life'), is set to open in New York City today, August 24, 2012. To promote the movie, the duo has shared the following short film. Watch it below!

ImprovBoston announces its September schedule. All ImprovBoston shows take place at ImprovBoston, 40 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA. The Schedule for the month is below. Ticket prices are with each show. More information on ImprovBoston is available at http://improvboston.com

Ira Glass is the award-winning host and producer of the syndicated radio program, This American Life. The show has won all of the major broadcasting awards and is often the most popular podcast in the country. It can be heard on 89.3 WFPL Saturday at noon and Sunday at 4pm.