This American Life - Live! 2009
On Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 host Ira Glass will bring the wildly popular public radio show This American Life to the big screen for a live event.
Ira Glass, host of Chicago Public Radio’s critically-acclaimed "This American Life," returns to movie screens in HD with a special live simulcast performance of the radio show on Thursday, April 23rd originating from the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University.
Just like in the weekly radio broadcast, Glass and several popular show contributors will perform humorous and profound stories, all centered on a theme. "This American Life" – Live! will be sent live via satellite to more than 400 select movie theaters and performing arts centers nationwide on April 23rd at 8:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. CDT / 6:00 p.m. MDT (time-delayed at 8:00 p.m. PDT and Arizona / 7:00 p.m. Hawaii).
Tickets for this special in-theater event are available at presenting theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com. For a complete list of presenting theater locations and prices please visit www.thisamericanlife.org (theaters and participants may be subject to change). Tickets to attend the live event at NYU Skirball Center sold out in just two days. Due to popular demand, an encore presentation of the live event has been scheduled for May 7th.
The evening’s lineup will include popular This American Life contributors Dan Savage, Starlee Kine, Mike Birbiglia, David Rakoff and Dave Hill, plus a cartoon by Chris Ware, additional visuals by Arthur Jones, and a special musical performance by Joss Whedon, creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Together they will perform a two-hour, live stage version of the radio show, centered on the theme “Return to the Scene of the Crime.”
This American Life – Live! is presented for the second consecutive year in theaters by NCM Fathom, produced by Chicago Public Radio and BY Experience, Inc. in collaboration with Public Radio International (PRI). Tens of thousands of fans across the country attended the first TAL cinema event in 2008.
“Our listeners enjoyed getting together in their own communities to experience our show in a new way,” said host Ira Glass. “The live cinema transmission was surprisingly effective. We were flooded with emails asking for us to do it again. Last year was mostly a sneak preview of stories from our television show. This year we’re excited to do a full-on stage performance of the radio show.”
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