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FLC students mount Tony Award-winning musical

DATE: Jul 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Dennis Elkins will bring mesmerizing solo show to Durango Arts Center

Dennis Elkins, the popular Fort Lewis College professor and former chairman of the Drama Department, is coming back to town with his solo show: ‘box.” Autobiographical in nature, ...

DATE: May 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Merely Players conjures super dreamtime with ‘Mama Mia!’

Production is high on energy, color and fantasy

DATE: May 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Weekend performances of ‘Les Miserables’ a student-run production

When actors take the stage Sunday at the Henry Strater Theatre for two performances of “Les Miserables,” it will be the result of all their own work. The show is a completely stud...

DATE: May 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Sigourney Weaver helps school celebrate ‘Alien’ production

NORTH BERGEN, N.J. – Sigourney Weaver helped make a New Jersey high school’s encore stage production of “Alien” a special event. “Alien: The Play” had drawn widespread praise afte...

DATE: Apr 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Troupe 1096 to stage imaginative ‘She Kills Monsters’

Durango High School actors go on Dungeons & Dragons adventure

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Cortez Middle School to perform ‘The Miracle Worker’

Theater department takes on Helen Keller historical fiction

DATE: Apr 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Durango Arts Center presents ‘Lion King Jr.’

Lions and tigers and buzzards, zebras, giraffes, gazelles, elephants, wildebeests, macaws, tree frogs, field mice and fireflies. That’s a selection of the animals, birds and inse...

DATE: Apr 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Fort Lewis College stages a rousing New York musical

“Bigger than a Buick.” That’s a line from “My Favorite Year,” the Dougherty-Flaherty-Ahrens musical running through this weekend at Fort Lewis College. It’s repeated more than on...

DATE: Mar 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Fort Lewis stages feel-good musical comedy

For Benjy Stone, 1954 was “My Favorite Year.” As he makes clear, “not the best year, but my favorite.” For the 1992 Broadway musical of the same title, the distinction between bes...

DATE: Mar 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts