This American Life – Live!
with host Ira Glass
Captured Live and screening in Australian cinemas
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 May
Ira Glass, host of WBEZ Chicago’s critically acclaimed radio show This American Life, broadcast on ABC Radio National, is coming to Australian cinemas for the first time with This American Life – Live!, a special captured live performance on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 May.
Tickets for This American Life – Live! are available at participating cinemas below and online at http://www.thisamericanlife.org/cinema/australia
Captured live from the Skirball Center at New York University, Glass will present stories by writers David Sedaris and David Rakoff, comedian Tig Notaro and Snap Judgment host Glynn Washington. Together they will perform a live stage version of the radio show, centred on the theme “The Invisible Made Visible.” The performance will also feature a new short film by Mike Birbiglia, live music by the rock band OK Go, a dance performance by Monica Bill Barnes & Company, original animation and illustration, and special surprise guests.
“I saw this amazing dance performance by Monica Bill Barnes’ company, and I thought – that is totally in the style of our radio show,” said host Ira Glass. “But obviously you can’t have dance on the radio. Then I realized, we have to do another cinema event! We’ve built this line-up of stories mixed with super visual things, including the dancers I saw that night, so it’s going to feel like the radio show but also totally unlike anything we’ve done before. I really can’t wait to see how it turns out.”
Ira Glass (This American Life)
About This American Life
This American Life is a weekly hour-long radio program which debuted in 1995 on WBEZ Chicago. Now distributed by Public Radio International, it is broadcast to more than 500 radio stations reaching 1.7 million weekly listeners. Often the most popular podcast in the country averaging more than 750,000 weekly downloads, the show has won major broadcasting awards including the Peabody, duPont-Columbia and Edward R. Murrow Awards. In 2001, Time Magazine named Glass the “best radio host in America.” From 2007-2008, a television version of This American Life aired on Showtime, winning three Emmy® Awards. In Australia, This American Life is broadcast on ABC Radio National on Sundays at 7pm.
Alisa Miller, president and CEO of Public Radio International (PRI) said, “Previous This American Life digital cinema events have been as lively, entertaining and amazing as the radio show. Ira Glass is a master storyteller on the radio and in this new live show, Ira promises to add new dimensions to that art form. As the organization that brings diverse perspectives to public media, PRI is proud to support this digital cinema event, and all of Ira’s work.”
SESSION TIMES for Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 May
(check cinemas for encore sessions)
MELBOURNE
Cinema Nova
www.cinemanova.com.au
Saturday May 26 : 1.00pm
Sunday May 27 : 1.00pm
Palace Como
http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/cinemas/como/
Saturday 26 May 1pm
Sunday 27 May 1pm
Palace Brighton Bay
http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/cinemas/bay/
Saturday 26 May 1pm
Sunday 27 May 1pm
Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick
http://www.classiccinemas.com.au/Movie/This-American-Life-Live
Saturday 26 May 2pm
Sunday 27 May 2pm
Cameo Cinemas, Belgrave
http://www.cameocinemas.com.au/Movie/This-American-Life-Live
Saturday 26 May 2pm
Sunday 27 May 2pm
Sorrento Athenaeum
http://www.peninsulacinemas.com.au/movie.aspx?MovieID=1795
Saturday 26 May 1pm
Sunday 27 May 1pm
SYDNEY
Dendy Newtown
http://www.dendy.com.au/Promotion/This-American-Life
Saturday 26 May 1pm
Sunday 27 May 1pm
Chauvel Cinema, Paddington
http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/movies/thisamericanlifelive/
Saturday 26 May 1pm
Sunday 27 May 1pm
Hayden Orpheum, Cremorne
www.orpheum.com.au
Saturday 26 May 1pm
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
http://www.riversideparramatta.com.au/performance.asp?pID=1848
Sunday 27 May 1pm
CANBERRA
Dendy Canberra
http://www.dendy.com.au/Movie/This-American-Life
Saturday 26 May 1pm
Sunday 27 May 1pm
ADELAIDE
Palace Nova Eastend
http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/cinemas/eastend/
Saturday 26 May 1pm
Sunday 27 May 1pm
BRISBANE
Palace Centro
http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/cinemas/centro/
Saturday 26 May 1pm
Sunday 27 May 1pm
PERTH
Luna Cinema Paradiso
http://www.lunapalace.com.au/
Saturday 26 May 1pm
Sunday 27 May 1pm
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