Carpenter Performing Arts Center

 


WIT & WISDOM

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GarrisonKeillor

Garrison Keillor

Wed, Sept. 22, 2010 at 8pm

 

Settle in for an evening of satisfying stories topped with an undisguisable, original humor that can only belong to Garrison Keillor, as the host of NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion returns to share more of his unique and wonderfully wry anecdotes about life in America.

 

 
Mark Twain

Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Sat, Jan. 29, 2011 at 8pm

 

The delicious and timeless wit of humorist Mark Twain is illuminated in David Birney’s stage adaptation, which won praise from L.A. to New York for Twain’s tender, knowing, and terrifically witty observations on the nature of men, women and love. A tour-de-force performance by Birney and co-star Madylon Brans!

 

 
Billy Collins

An Evening with Billy Collins

Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8pm

 

Hailed by The New York Times as “the most popular poet in America,” former U.S. Poet Laureate and best-selling author Billy Collins generates fans all over the world with his incomparable talent for capturing subjects of everyday life—love, death, solitude, youth, and one’s triumphs and defeats. Join us for a fascinating and intimate glimpse into the heart and soul of a brilliantly thoughtful man as he reads from his body of work.