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Dennis Elkins mesmerizing audiences

The eighth annual Thingamajig Playwrights Festival opened last weekend in Pagosa Springs with “box.” Written and performed by Dennis Elkins, Equity actor, director and former chairman of the...

DATE: Oct 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

A soaring symphonic opener

Regional orchestra launches new season

DATE: Oct 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

The new play is the thing in Four Corners

Recently, Joyce Fontana’s play, “Paindemonium,” got a staged reading as a finalist in the Aloha Theatre’s Original Play Festival XXV. Yes, that means one Hawaiian new play festival has been ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Creating a creative community

Last week, Durango’s creative community celebrated two women for their years of work as cultural midwives. The Durango Arts Center threw a big farewell party for Education Direct...

DATE: Aug 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Waiting for the bomb in Santa Fe

Even though rain pounded the Santa Fe Opera last Thursday, the show went on. Thunder, lightning and sheets of water fell throughout most of Act I of “Dr. Atomic.” Crew members sw...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Through the fires – a festival opens

The Silverton Theatre Mine soldiers on

DATE: Jun 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

DAC prepares for 10-minute play festival

Staged readings of short, original plays will again constitute one of the most popular events in Durango on May 18. Area actors and directors will mount the first iteration of our own 10-min...

DATE: May 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

10 reasons to see MET’s ‘Luisa Miller’

A lavishly staged tale of doomed love

DATE: Apr 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Master classes enrich students

Kerry Ginger knows plenty of people in “the biz,” and she’s invited two pros to Fort Lewis College for a series of open master classes in musical theater. “The tools, and the tri...

DATE: Mar 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

MET Live delivers Love Potion No. 9

No doubt about it, “L’Elisir d’Amore” is a potboiler. Brimming with stock characters, melodramatic story line and the sudden discovery of a rich uncle, “The Elixir of Love” could...

DATE: Feb 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Hidden gems to be found at St. Mark’s

The next recital in the St. Mark’s chamber music series has to be among the most unusual concerts to come our way in a very long time. Titled “Hidden Gems of Eastern Europe,” the ...

DATE: Jan 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Dennis Elkins returns for Christmas

Pagosa mounts a comedic ‘Tuna’

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

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Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

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