Performing Arts - The Durango Herald

Vampire Weekend member makes a Broadway play sing

Grammy-winning musician takes talents to theater production

DATE: Aug 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

A prince and a player

DATE: Aug 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

You too can be a Broadway producer with just $10K

NEW YORK – The lead producers behind the 1940s song-and-dance Broadway revival of “On the Town” are offering a modern twist for its financing: Accredited folk can buy a part of it for as lit...

DATE: Aug 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Marvel heroes and villains fight it out – live

NEW YORK – Marvel Entertainment, which muscled into pop culture with comic books, TV cartoons and movies, is gambling on attracting new fans as it tackles 3-D – but forget the silly glasses....

DATE: Aug 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

In ‘Phoenix,’ hooking up is hard to do

NEW YORK – Should you happen to bring your mother along to see “Phoenix,” Scott Organ’s one-act dark comedy at the Cherry Lane Theatre, beware: She might stare you down and say, “I told you ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Helen Mirren to bring ‘The Audience’ to Broadway

NEW YORK — Broadway, prepare for the arrival of a queen — Helen Mirren is bringing “The Audience” to New York City. Producers of Peter Morgan’s play said Wednesday that Mirren wil...

DATE: Aug 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Met Opera talks halted for financial review

NEW YORK – The show will go on – for now. The Metropolitan Opera and unions representing its singers, dancers and musicians agreed Saturday to halt labor negotiations for a week a...

DATE: Aug 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Brian Dennehy, Mia Farrow to star on Broadway

NEW YORK – A.R. Gurney’s romantic play “Love Letters” is about to hit Broadway again with some big movie stars. The two-person work, composed of letters exchanged over a lifetime ...

DATE: Jul 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Kristen Bell gets back to her ‘Hair’ roots

NEW YORK – Before she was Princess Anna in “Frozen” or even Veronica Mars, Kristen Bell was a musical theater geek. Now she’s letting her roots show. Bell is starring in the irre...

DATE: Jul 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Lockout looms as Met contracts set to expire

NEW YORK – Figaro might not be getting married anytime soon. Mimi and Rodolfo might not fall in love in that cold Parisian garret. And Macbeth might never murder his way to the throne. ...

DATE: Jul 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Elaine Stritch, brash stage legend, dies at 89

NEW YORK – Elaine Stritch, the brash theater performer whose gravelly, gin-laced voice and impeccable comic timing made her a Broadway legend, has died. She was 89. A spokesman fo...

DATE: Jul 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Julia Stiles goes ‘back to my roots’ – the stage

NEW YORK – Moving to a new home is said to be one of the most stressful events you can endure – up there with death and divorce – but Julia Stiles has just done it and looks radiant. ...

DATE: Jul 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts