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"This American Life" Returns to South Carolina Silver Screens
With Host Ira Glass and Special Guests for a One Night Event
"This American Life – Live!" Will Be Broadcast on Thursday, April 23 at 8 p.m.
in over 400 Movie Theatres Across America, Including Four in South Carolina
For Immediate Release
April 1, 2009
Columbia, SC… ETV Radio welcomes Ira Glass, host of Chicago Public Radio’s critically-acclaimed "This American Life," to four movie theatres in South Carolina for a special live simulcast performance of the radio show on Thursday, April 23rd at 8 p.m.
Just like in the weekly radio broadcast, Glass and several popular show contributors will perform humorous and profound stories, all centered on a theme. ETV Radio hosts the South Carolina screenings of This American Life – Live! at the following locations:
- Regal Sandhill Stadium 16 in Columbia
- Regal Hollywood 20 in Greenville
- Cinemark 14 @ Coastal Grand in Myrtle Beach
- Regal Azalea Square Stadium in Summerville
Folks who become members of the ETV Endowment and donate $100 will receive four tickets to this one-night-only performance at one of the locations listed above. To become a member, simply call 1-800-256-8535.
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 This American Life 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.”
This American Life debuted in 1995 as a weekly, hour-long radio program, produced by Chicago Public Radio and distributed by Public Radio International to more than 500 radio stations nationwide. Primarily journalistic non-fiction, the show also features fiction, essays and field recordings. The show has won many 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.” In 2007, the television version of This American Life premiered on premium cable on the Showtime Network. Newsweek called it “a jewel of a TV series.” The New York Times called it “beautifully done, an opulent and moving documentary of the highest order.” Season one of This American Life received three Emmy nominations and an International Documentary Association Award. Season Two won Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Nonfiction Series” and “Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming.”
This American Life can be heard on ETV Radio Classical NPR News formats on Fridays at 7 p.m. and on ETV Radio NPR News formats on Saturdays at 2 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m.
South Carolina ETV is the state's public educational broadcasting network with 11 television and eight radio transmitters, and a multi-media educational system in more than 2,500 schools, colleges, businesses and government agencies. Using television, radio and the web, SCETV's mission is to enrich lives by educating children, informing and connecting citizens, celebrating our culture and environment and instilling the joy of learning.
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For more information, contact Rob Schaller at (803) 737-6556 or rschaller@scetv.org.
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Ira Glass, host of "This American Life." Credit: Richard Frank.
Ira Glass, host of "This American Life"
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