MOORHEAD — The 50th anniversary of “A Prairie Home Companion” is a reason for Midwesterners to celebrate. The very first broadcast of the live radio show took place in 1974, recorded at Janet Wallace ...

LOS ANGELES-Garrison Keillor ended four decades of hosting "A Prairie Home Companion" with his trademark Midwestern reserve combined with frivolity at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday. "I'm from Minnesota ...

Tom Keith, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Megan Fischer and Garrison Keillor on stage during the broadcast of “A Prairie Home Companion.” ( 2011 Prairie Home Productions) “A Prairie Home Companion.” It’s a ...

ST. PAUL -- Garrison Keillor’s last night hosting “A Prairie Home Companion” at St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater was an evening of music and poetry, topical humor and reminiscences, elegies and old ...

Released in 2006, A Prairie Home Companion centered on the final recording of the real-life live radio show of the same name. In fact, the screenplay was written by Garrison Keillor, who hosted a ...

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“A Prairie Home Companion” is a sort of backstage musical, following the final performance of a fictionalized version of Garrison Keillor‘s radio show. Keillor is the show’s master of ceremonies and ...

Chris Thile gestures during an interview at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Thile will replace Garrison Keillor as host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” the popular public radio variety show, ...