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 ...

Garrison Keillor, the creator of and former host of long-running NPR variety series A Prairie Home Companion as well as contributor to other NPR programs, has been fired from Minnesota Public Radio ...

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 ...

Tom Keith, a longtime cast member for "A Prairie Home Companion," died suddenly at his home Sunday night. Keith collapsed in his home in Minnesota. Officials say they haven’t determined why he died.

“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 ...

The "Prairie Home Companion" movie opened June 9 on just 760 screens -- compared with the same weekend's box office champ, the animated "Cars," which played on nearly 4,000 screens -- but performed ...

The virtuoso mandolin player now finds himself balancing a busy recording-and-touring career with his new role with the popular public radio show. The baroque composer J.S. Bach never wrote for the ...

In addition to being the "Mother Church of Country Music," Nashville's Ryman Auditorium could also be considered the birthplace of "A Prairie Home Companion." The famed radio variety show will return ...