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Pagosa company stages taut Sorkin play

At the beginning of “A Few Good Men,” playing now through June 5 at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts, two Marines stand at attention. They identify themselves and recite the charges ag...

DATE: May 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

A body of work exhibited at the arts center

At first glance, Laurie Archer’s solar plate etchings look like random nature studies. In the three sections of “The Thread,” her exhibit now on view in the library of the Durango Arts Cente...

DATE: May 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

High school explores collaborative theater

Troupe’s ‘Shattered Constellations’ celebrates the art of improvisation

DATE: May 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Seven reasons to see ‘Shrek’

Merely Players mounts lively family production

DATE: May 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘Elektra’: The first Freudian opera

The Met downloads Greek tragedy

DATE: Apr 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Opera offers free family performance at FLC

What do you get when you combine a futuristic setting, romantic comedy and a traveling opera company? The Santa Fe Opera’s spring touring production of “UnShakeable.” ...

DATE: Apr 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

High drama to be had in Philadelphia

I hit a travel jackpot earlier this month on a trip to Philadelphia. I flew there for my annual conference of the American Theatre Critics Association. Seventy critics and their ...

DATE: Apr 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

The Met series continues with ‘Roberto Devereux’ at Fort Lewis

When Donizetti’s opera “Roberto Devereux” begins, the man of the title finds himself trapped in a brocade of lies. Roberto (tenor Matthew Polenzani), the young, swaggering Earl o...

DATE: Apr 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Opera as human drama and cultural imperialism

FLC to screen MET production of Puccini’s ‘Madame Butterfly’

DATE: Mar 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

‘Legally Blonde the Musical’ better than the book or movie

Durango High School mounts high-energy musical comedy

DATE: Mar 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Exhibit is astute political commentary laced with outrage

“The best political art is always viciously negative.” British culture critic Jonathan Jones wrote that last week in his column in The Guardian. Jones pointedly asked...

DATE: Mar 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

From Paris to parts unknown with ‘Manon Lescaut’

The MET Live simulcast at Fort Lewis time travels again

DATE: Mar 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts