Arts (general) - The Durango Herald

New Carole King musical will star Jessie Mueller

NEW YORK – Jessie Mueller has nabbed a beautiful Broadway role – she’ll be playing celebrated songwriter Carole King in a new musical about the woman who wrote such hits as “It’s Too Late” a...

DATE: Aug 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Denver troupe rocks the ballet

When Denver’s Ballet Ariel takes the stage Sunday night at the Smiley Building for “The Birth of Rock and Roll,” it will be a special night for at least one of the dancers. And more than a b...

DATE: Aug 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Cars and bugs – Shakespeare in the Parking Lot

NEW YORK – Acting in one of Shakespeare’s plays is difficult enough without having to dodge a 3,600-pound SUV. That’s just one of the challenges facing the cast performing “Richar...

DATE: Aug 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Triumph & tragedy

Santa Fe Opera has world premiere, classics, a jolly spoof

DATE: Aug 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Opening on time is the real trick

DATE: Jul 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Islands, seas & shipwrecks

Utah Festival champions Peter Pan, Cole Porter and Shakespeare

DATE: Jul 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Shakespeare’s Globe taking ‘Hamlet’ around world

LONDON – Shakespeare’s Globe theater is about to take the Bard’s words literally – “All the world’s a stage.” The London theater announced Tuesday that it plans to tour a product...

DATE: Jul 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

The show must go on

Fires can’t stop Creede Rep Theatre

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Broadway gets beastly – thanks to a dog lover

Bernadette Peters leads adoption charge

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Summer theater has East Coast bias

Durango Arts Center’s season of Neil Simon is underway

DATE: Jul 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Durango Herald editor is getting in on the act

A sure sign of an arts loving community is community theater. The kind of theater where your friends, neighbors or co-workers get cast into random roles, whether they have years o...

DATE: Jul 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Black Belt Salsa class creates lethal dancers

Dance, like martial arts, is for many a lifelong journey. That’s the parallel professional dance instructor Edie Williams drew last year when she named her new dance instruction method Black...

DATE: Jul 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts