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Music in the Mountains goes on the road

Music in the Mountains, Southwest Colorado’s inimitable summer festival, will launch its 2021 season with a spanking new, green-and-white traveling music wagon and free mini-concerts. The mo...

DATE: Jun 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Three crackin’ good yarns: Creede Rep launches 56th season with fairy tale, an epic and love letters

After going dark in 2020 because of COVID-19, Creede Repertory Theatre is launching Operation Outdoor Theatre 2021. A full schedule of plays, plus improv comedy and a new cabaret, is on deck...

DATE: Jun 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Gear up, Durango: Powerhouse opens interactive bike exhibition

A penny-farthing bicycle with its huge front and tiny back wheels is only one of the most unusual bikes on display at the Powerhouse Science Center this summer. In its new exhibition, “GEAR ...

DATE: Jun 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

When friendships splinter

“I was looking forward to a relaxing evening after a ridiculously crazed week,” says Ivan toward the end of the contemporary comedy: “Art.” Ivan’s expectation of “meeting my two best friends...

DATE: Jun 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Merely Players finds another ’found space’

Theater company to stage contemporary French comedy

DATE: May 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Of lullabies, prayers and dances

San Juan Symphony concludes 35th season

DATE: May 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Fort Lewis College stages an evening of musical theater

Outsiders and insiders. It’s an old story, from fairy tales to the modern stage. Google Cinderella, an archetype for exclusion who eventually gains acceptance, and you’ll find thousands of v...

DATE: Apr 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Fort Lewis College stages award-winning drama

‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ a high-speed drama

DATE: Mar 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

SkyWords program welcomes author Tommy Orange

Fort Lewis College resumes Common Reading Experience

DATE: Mar 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Books

Back-to-back BACH

Orchestra and annual festival celebrate the great one

DATE: Mar 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Music

Fort Lewis College and the performing arts

It’s a trend. All over the country, college and universities are merging music and theater departments. Fort Lewis College is already interviewing for a new position in musical th...

DATE: Mar 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Merely Players theater company finds home

Merely Players, our shining, home-grown, and carefully-nurtured local theater company, has finally found a home. “Right now, our new space is simply a large storage area,” said c...

DATE: Dec 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch