Filene Center
May 23, 2009
Coming to you this week from the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia, it's a live broadcast
performance of A Prairie Home Companion. With special guests, Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, and Will Farley, the National Champion of the 2009 Poetry Out Loud project. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.
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Our May 22 and 23 shows come from the Filene Center, Wolf Trap National Park in Vienna, Virginia. May 30, we head west to St. Louis' splendid Fox Theatre. Friday, June 5, finds us in the heart of Los Angeles at the Greek Theatre with Martin Sheen — a performance to be broadcast the next day. June 12 brings another Friday show
(broadcast on Saturday) — this time from the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, with special guests Billy Collins, and Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson. On June 20, we're at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois with Elvin Bishop. We finish out the month — and our season — at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts on June 27. Stay tuned.
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Previously available at our live shows, we brought in the beautiful, and incredibly detailed 35th Anniversary poster at a discount price. This new illustration by Rodica Prato, painstakingly details everything that is needed to get the show on air each week
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Jeb says to Homer, "I hear your son is going to doctor school."
Homer replies, "Yep, he's going to be one of them pulmonologists."
Jeb thinks, then says,"I didn't know they had doctors on those passenger trains."
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Float above it
(May. 18, 2009)
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. I was at a retreat for spiritual growth and rejuvenation at a place run by some lovely nuns and wouldn't you know there were no clocks anywhere and the rule...
We Are What We Are
(May. 12, 2009)
Only one out of five Americans is willing to describe himself or herself as a Republican these days, and frankly I am tempted to become one of them. For the variety, and because they need me and because when I...
Louisville
(Feb. 04, 2009)
The first time I went to Louisville I set a house on fire, broke both my arms and was put into solitary confinement in a dark room for a week. It was a place I had wanted to return to...
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This independent feature-length documentary film by Peter Rosen goes behind the scenes at A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who
created it.
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