Reinventing Radio: An Evening With Ira Glass

Saturday, October 24th | 7:30 PM
Muriel Kauffman Theatre

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Host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life, Ira Glass will perform Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass on Saturday, October 24 in Muriel Kauffman Theatre. Ticket prices range from $39 to $69.

Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass is sponsored by Lawrence and Donna Gould Cohen and Martha Gershun and Don Goldman in memory of Gloria P. Gershun, a professional librarian and passionate booklover with deep ties to the Jewish community.

The event is supported in partnership with KCUR 89.3 FM.

Ira Glass started working in public radio in 1978, when he was 19, as an intern at NPR’s headquarters in Washington D.C. Over the next 17 years, he worked on nearly every NPR news show and did nearly every production job they had: tape-cutter, desk assistant, newscast writer, editor, producer, reporter, and substitute host. He spent a year in a high school for NPR, and a year in an elementary school, filing stories for All Things Considered. He moved to Chicago in 1989 and put This American Life on the air in 1995.

In Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass, the creator of the public radio show This American Life talks about his program and how it’s put together: what makes a compelling story, where they find the amazing stories for their show, how he and his staff are trying to push broadcast journalism to do things it doesn’t usually do. As part of this, Glass mixes stories from the show, live onstage, combining his narration with pre-taped quotes and music, recreating the sound of the show as the audience watches. And he plays funny and memorable moments from the show, and talks about what was behind their creation.

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