St. Charles’ Arcada to host ‘This American Life’ creator

“Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass” will be at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 14, at the historic Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Glass is the host, creator and executive producer of “This American Life,” a weekly public radio show on topics that relate to everyone’s life. The show premiered on Chicago’s public radio station WBEZ in 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by more than 1.7 million listeners. Most weeks, the podcast of the program is the most popular podcast in America. The show also airs each week on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio network.

Glass began his career as an intern at National Public Radio’s network headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, when he was 19 years old. Over the years, he worked on nearly every NPR network news program and held virtually every production job in NPR’s Washington headquarters. He has been a tape cutter, newscast writer, desk assistant, editor, and producer. He has filled in as host of “Talk of the Nation” and “Weekend All Things Considered.”

Under Glass’s editorial direction, “This American Life” has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including several Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards.

Tickets are $39-$89. For tickets, visit oshows.com.