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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

Family values: Met streams grand opera nightly through holidays

The Metropolitan Opera continues its free nightly streaming of encore productions this holiday week with the theme “Family Drama.” That the roster includes tragedies such as “Hamlet,” “Elekt...

DATE: Nov 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Fort Lewis College stages coming-of-age American drama

‘Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them’ will be available online

DATE: Nov 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Merely Players stages tragicomedy online

‘WAKEY, WAKEY’ opens this weekend

DATE: Oct 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Spend a night at the opera: The MET makes it easy online

Will the biggest of all art forms, grand opera, survive the pandemic? Will die-hard Durango fans ever gather again Saturday mornings at Fort Lewis College for The MET Live in HD? ...

DATE: Oct 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Fort Lewis College to host a virtual music showcase Sunday

Music to calm a COVID-19 time

DATE: Oct 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

Much ado at Jenkins Ranch Park

Merely Players’ Studio Series refreshes Shakespeare

DATE: Sep 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

With ‘PIVOT,’ FLC mounts major show of Native American painting

Skateboard decks are canvas of choice

DATE: Aug 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Next stop for the ‘Chief’ sign?

The Chief belongs in a museum. Yes, the odd, oversized, flat-painted cartoon of a Native American pointing to a place of business has outlived this moment. Created ab...

DATE: Jul 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Merely Players and The Silverton Mine go online

Here are eight reasons to catch Merely Players’ “Zoom Alice: A Wonderland Adventure for a Topsy Turvy World” before it disappears online by the end of Saturday, June 20. 1. A tigh...

DATE: Jun 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

In a topsy-turvy world: Merely Players offers a timely ‘Alice’

“We can wait to go back to an uncertain ‘normal’ or we can work with what is,” Mona Wood-Patterson said in a recent interview. Co-founder and artistic director of Merely Players,...

DATE: Jun 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Zoom Theater rides into summer

Two very different local theater companies are launching two projects in the next two weeks. Both companies appear to be on the same surreal wavelength as they conjure different virtual prod...

DATE: May 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch