George Saunders News

Symphony Space has launched the $45 million Building Together campaign to reimagine its theaters and public spaces, expand the range and reach of its programming, and strengthen its endowment.

Watch video of Liza Minnelli performing “Our Love Is Here to Stay” during her rare Los Angeles appearance celebrating her memoir. The event featured a live conversation with Michael Feinstein and a performance at the Million Dollar Theatre.

Liza Minnelli will make a rare onstage appearance in Los Angeles as part of an event celebrating the release of her forthcoming memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This.

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special 60th-anniversary gala, and performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Craig Finn has announced a new headline tour, which gets underway October 9 at Millersville, PA’s Phantom Power and then travels through a tour finale at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge on October 25.

Craig Finn has announced the release of his eagerly awaited new album, Always Been, arriving on Friday, April 4. Produced by GRAMMY® Award-winner Adam Granduciel, the album is heralded by the premiere of the new single, “People of Substance,” available everywhere now. 

Percussionist John Hollenbeck's ensemble GEORGE will perform at New England Conservatory on October 22, 2024.

Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club reveals details about October’s Monthly Read: Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders. The Service95 Book Club will offer exclusive content from Dua and George throughout the month.

The Library Foundation of Los Angeles has revealed the 2024 fall season of ALOUD. Learn more about the season.

National Sawdust will open its momentous 10th anniversary season with the world premiere production of Paola Prestini and Royce Vavrek's sensual and poetic new opera Silent Light from September 26-29.

Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) have announced the next workshop in their groundbreaking joint program, Opera Fusion: New Works.

Directed by Gendell Hing-Hernández, CITIZEN opens on October 21. This Word for Word and Z Space production tells the tale of Salvador, born in the U.S. and raised in Mexico, the son of an American Indian mother and a Mexican father.

Soulpepper Theatre will present the Canadian premiere of King Gilgamesh & the Man of the Wild, a delightful new hybrid theatre-music production that brings the epic tale of Gilgamesh to life on stage. Directed by Seth Bockley, and featuring Ahmed Moneka and Jesse LaVercombe alongside celebrated Arabic-Maqam fusion band, Moneka Arabic Jazz, King Gilgamesh & the Man of the Wild will be presented July 25 to August 6, 2023 at the Michael Young Theatre, Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

In May Word for Word’s Production of George Saunders HOME will go to France, on May 10 to Angers and May 16 to Paris. This follows a run in San francisco where Words for Words’ first season production was received enthusiastically by audiences and press alike.

Word for Word's Off the Page staged reading series is back for 2023. The next performance is on March 27, 7 pm at the American Bookbinders Museum and will feature two stories by Kevin Barry, “Who’s Dead McCarthy” and 'The Wintersongs,' both directed by Word for Word Core Company Member Paul Finocchiaro. 

Word for Word’s 30th Season opens with HOME by George Saunders, April 8 - 29 at Z Below. Word for Word has a long history of adapting stories by George Saunders. HOME is about a war veteran returning to a home that is increasingly cruel and absurd, and his quest for understanding and compassion.

Word for Word and Z Space 30th Season opens with HOME by George Saunders April 8 - 29 at Z Below. Word for Word has a long history of adapting stories by both George Saunders and Greg Sarris.

La MaMa and The Public’s Under the Radar Festival will present King Gilgamesh & the Man of the Wild, bringing to New York audiences a moving one-act production that fuses live music with storytelling to share co-creator’s Ahmed Moneka's personal journey as an Iraqi actor-refugee in North America.

Symphony Space will present a special evening celebrating the publication of Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders’ new short story collection, Liberation Day. The event takes place Tuesday, October 18, at 7pm EST in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Symphony Space. Stephen Colbert (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) will also perform.

The American Bookbinders Museum, The Yerba Buena Community District and Word for Word present a staged reading of Home by George Saunders Directed by Sheila Balter. The event is on Saturday, October 8 at 7pm at the American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA  94103.