It’s a hard-knock life in rags-to-riches musical
Durango Arts Center’s Applause presents ‘Annie Jr.’
DATE: Dec 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
A Sondheim prescription for the holidays
“Not while I’m Around” is one of Stephen Sondheim’s warmest ballads. It arrives in the middle of one of his darkest, coldest musicals, “Sweeney Todd.” The message is that no matter how dange...
DATE: Dec 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch
Merely Players casts another spell with ‘Wrinkle in Time’
We should be so lucky to have three life guides like Mrs. Whatsit (Mandy Gardner), Mrs. Who (Sarah Choszczyk) and Mrs. Which (Helen Jauregui). In Madeleine L’Engle’s sci-fi fantasy A Wrinkle...
DATE: Nov 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
The Met Live in HD’s ‘The Exterminating Angel’ to be screened at Fort Lewis College
“The Exterminating Angel” is a scary new opera based on a scarier old movie.
Rough, dark and depressing, the opera, by British composer Thomas Adès and his co-librettist Tom Cair...
DATE: Nov 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Durango High School’s “Grease” and FLC’s “Urinetown: The Musical” explore American life
“Grease” and “Urinetown.” The titles sound yucky, but there’s more to musical revivals than titles tell.
Two productions of award-winning musicals are running parallel to each ot...
DATE: Nov 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
San Juan Symphony navigates the new world
At the heart of the next San Juan Symphony concert is a serenade that may have been a marriage proposal.
Howard Hanson’s “Serenade for Flute, Harp and Strings” was composed in 19...
DATE: Nov 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music
Fort Lewis College stages dystopian musical
There’s trouble in Urinetown
DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Durango Chamber Singers to present varied program Sunday
What the world needs now is music and more music.
On Sunday afternoon, “Heartstrings,” the newest iteration from the innovative Durango Chamber Singers, will take place. At 3 p.m....
DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music
The world in 10 minutes
A winning weekend at DAC’s 7th annual play festival
DATE: Oct 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Altius Quartet boys are back in Durango for recital
Fort Lewis College launches A.I.R. recital season
DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music
Durango Arts Center hosts seventh annual 10-Minute Play Festival
Comedy, fantasy, meta-theater dominate
DATE: Oct 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Recital Series getting underway Violinist, pianist perform at Unitarian Universalist Church
Tonight, violinist Brandon Christensen and pianist Marilyn Garst will unspool a remarkable program. Two majestic sonatas will frame two short contemporary works, and the concert will close w...
DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music
