How to say goodbye with style

DAC stages a theatrical farewell

A Sondheim prescription for the holidays

“Not while I’m Around” is one of Stephen Sondheim’s warmest ballads. It arrives in the middle of one of his darkest, coldest musicals, “Sweeney Todd.” The message is that no matter how dange...

What’s in a master class?

You play what you’ve been practicing for months. When you finish, the teacher may say “Bravo.” Then the nitpicking begins. Master classes are a study in preparation, nerves and ...

Tricksters in only 10 minutes

DAC play festival has mixed results

Memory and its mysteries

Two productions bring classics to life

Time and time again : The MET stages contemporary ‘La Traviata’

Time is the big villain in Verdi’s “La Traviata,” and in case you don’t get it, director Wily Decker puts a huge clock on stage even before the overture begins. At 11 Saturday mo...

Collaborative ‘Carol’ is innovative and moving

When Ebenezer Scrooge (played with crabby directness by Bob Thom) tucks himself into bed on Christmas Eve, he happens to be standing on stage. The illusion is so complete and so ...

Culture Gulch Sirens of song: Two musical programs not to miss

I’m borrowing Kerry Ginger’s title for her upcoming presentation in Life Long Learning to alert readers to two musical programs next week. One is about women’s roles in Western o...

Plenty of opera to be seen in Durango

Opera offerings are expanding in Durango. Some showings stream live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera and others are taped broadcasts from opera houses around the world. It...

Music for our troubled time

For me, music that speaks to our troubled time more powerfully than any other is anything by Beethoven and anything by Brahms. Luckily, in this summer of political discontent, th...

50 shades of satire at Durango Arts Center

Satire rides on a spectrum from mild to wild – to borrow a line from a local rafting company. Last Friday, the sixth annual 10-minute Play Festival at the Durango Arts Center floa...

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...