Arts (general) - The Durango Herald

Durango High School releases the beast within

Splendid production of ‘Beauty’

DATE: Nov 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Playwrights invited to submit plays to DAC

The Durango Arts Center invites emerging and established playwrights to submit original plays to the 10-Minute Play Contest. Annually, DAC receives more than 100 submissions from...

DATE: Nov 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Sarah Vowell to perform Thursday at concert hall

Next Thursday at the Fort Lewis Community Concert Hall, New York Times bestselling author, “This American Life” editor and commentator and frequent “Daily Show” guest Sarah Vowell will be ma...

DATE: Nov 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Durango High School Troupe 1096 to open ‘Beauty and the Beast’

‘I think it’s going to be amazing’

DATE: Nov 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

‘Ash pit’ redefined when cremains scattered at the Met

Only rarely in its history has the Metropolitan Opera canceled a performance partway through, and the reason is always death. In 1960, Leonard Warren finished his aria “Morir! Tre...

DATE: Nov 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Neighbors: Colorado Plateau art supports Mesa Verde Foundation

By Ann Butler Neighbors Columnist Mesa Verde National Park is a diamond in the crown of our area and a significant economic driver. Yet, as a community, we have not tak...

DATE: Oct 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Neighbors: Durango Friends of the Arts’ fundraiser a success

It would take some serious research to figure out how many times yours truly has written about the Durango Friends of the Arts in the 16-plus years of the Neighbors column. But I know it’s b...

DATE: Oct 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Fort Lewis College Hawkapellas hit the right note

On Tuesday afternoon, Roshong Recital Hall at Fort Lewis College was filled with energy as college students streamed in for the hourlong, twice-a-week Hawkapella rehearsal. And no...

DATE: Oct 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Tip a glass to O. Henry

‘Tipping a Glass to O Henry’ presented Tuesday at FLC “Tipping a Glass to O. Henry” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Durango Arts Center. The performance highlights the author’s...

DATE: Oct 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

FLC presents Pulitzer Prize-winning play

Opener precedes Shakespeare and Gilbert & Sullivan

DATE: Oct 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Comedian Hasan Minhaj bringing ‘Homecoming King’ to Durango

Chances are you’ve seen actor and comedian Hasan Minhaj on “The Daily Show,” where he’s a correspondent. And now, you can see him in person when he comes to the Community Concert Hall at For...

DATE: Oct 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Gary Busey to star in off-Broadway’s ‘Perfect Crime’

NEW YORK – Gary Busey will make his New York stage debut next month in the off-Broadway show “Perfect Crime,” playing a serial killer in the cast of the longest-running play in city history....

DATE: Oct 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts