Name: Warren Zane’s: Entering NEBRASKA
Start: 2025-10-26T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-26T17:00:00-04:00
Location: New Brighton

$Warren Zane\u2019s: Entering NEBRASKA$

Sunday. October 26. 3 pm. On sale 9/3 at noon. Email [email protected]
Warren Zanes: Entering NEBRASKA

Entering Nebraska is a unique, words-and-music show based on Warren Zanes’s book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. Now a 20th Century Studios film adaptation starring Jeremy Allen White, Deliver Me from Nowhere captures Springsteen’s tumultuous but inspired early 1980’s experiences. This show, Entering Nebraska, is the book come-to-life, featuring celebrated musicians Kate Fenner, David Mansfield, and Teddy Thompson.
Warren Zanes first met Bruce Springsteen in 1984, when Zanes was still a teenager and Springsteen was riding high with his biggest album, Born in the U.S.A. They crossed one another’s paths at Greensboro, North Carolina's Rhinoceros Club. Zanes was there with his band The Del Fuegos when Springsteen walked into the group’s small dressing room, joining The Del Fuegos onstage that night, letting a little small town magic flood the room.

Zanes would meet Springsteen at a few other points throughout his life, but he would always see Springsteen as "the guy who made Nebraska." Forty years after the album’s release, Zanes would sit with Springsteen, just the two of them talking for hours about how Nebraska was made, why it was different, what it means to release an imperfect, unfinished, and unexpected recording like Nebraska. Those conversations became the spine of a book about that recording and Springsteen’s life at the time. Judd Apatow has said, “This book, more than any other, reveals the hidden corners of Bruce Springsteen's creative world.”

Zanes’s show Entering Nebraska is a moving, sometimes funny, deep exploration of life falling apart, of art's redemptive power, and of the lasting place of Bruce Springsteen in American life and culture. Punctuated by the songs of Nebraska, this is the one-man-plus-music event that brings Zanes's to life in new and unexpected ways.