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Irma, Norman and a Chinese princess

Find a good parking place up at Fort Lewis College and keep it for the weekend. The college will host three tempting cultural events: “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” the opening production of The...

DATE: Oct 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Durango’s performing arts season is now in full swing

Our calendars are already overloaded. But it looks like a winning season once again for the performing arts in Durango. Last Saturday, music lovers filled the Community Concert Ha...

DATE: Oct 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

San Juan Symphony: 34 years and counting

Orchestra opens with three interrelated ‘Classical’ works

DATE: Sep 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

FLC Showcase to launch recital season

New faculty members to perform

DATE: Sep 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Popular Living History talks returning to Durango

‘Eleanor Roosevelt’ and ‘Nikola Tesla’ continue the Chautauqua tradition

DATE: Aug 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Durango playfest takes stage for second year

Five readings will highlight annual event

DATE: Aug 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Music in the Mountains concludes with an evening of comedy and tragedy

If you have to say goodbye, if you have to close a winning music festival, why not go out in style? Guillermo Figueroa and the Festival Orchestra will do just that at 5:30 p.m. Su...

DATE: Jul 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Let’s put on a S-H-O-W

FLC students mount Tony Award-winning musical

DATE: Jul 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Music in the Mountains: Fairy tales, French horns and a Spanish fantasy

Romantic-era musical immersion on Sunday

DATE: Jul 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

A new beginning for Music in the Mountains

Festival will launch 33rd season July 6

DATE: Jun 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Dennis Elkins will bring mesmerizing solo show to Durango Arts Center

Dennis Elkins, the popular Fort Lewis College professor and former chairman of the Drama Department, is coming back to town with his solo show: ‘box.” Autobiographical in nature, ...

DATE: May 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

MET Opera based on true story from French Revolution to be screened

Paris, July, 1794: “Today, 40 individuals had their heads cut off, including 16 Carmélite nuns from Compiègne.” That brief, contemporaneous note about a mass execution during the ...

DATE: May 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts