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For its first theatrical production, Mountain Middle School has set the bar for future shows pretty high with its staging of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” “Macbeth,” the classic tragedy of what happens...
DATE: April 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
“Ladies and gents, we bring you tonight – The great historical gangster show!” Delivered vaudevillian style by a darkly cheerful Announcer (the wonderful Hallie Denman), those are the opening lines...
DATE: April 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
The final San Juan Symphony concert of the year will open with Leonard Bernstein’s jaunty “Overture to Candide.” It’s a perfect way to mark the 100th anniversary of the great musician’s birth, his...
DATE: March 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
“The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” is a darkly comic allegory about Hitler and the Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s. But in the Fort Lewis College production opening March 29, you won’t see...
DATE: March 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
The Metropolitan Opera’s ambitious new production of “Così fan tutte” transports Mozart’s 18th century parlor intrigue to a neon-lit amusement park circa 1950. That’s time traveling on a spool of...
DATE: March 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Ready for some fast talking, romantic singing and a sweet love story set in a small town? “The Music Man” is just the ticket. “A fast talking con-man pretends to know something about music, poses...
DATE: March 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Young Mary Warren trembles with fear when she must choose between lying or telling the truth. As portrayed by an electrifying Isabelle Herringer in the Durango High School production of “The...
DATE: March 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
“I don’t understand why any woman would love to wear the same dress to anything.” Kristin Skye Hoffmann, the new artistic director at the Durango Arts Center Theatre, bluntly admits that her first...
DATE: Feb. 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
For good reason, the Metropolitan Opera has staged Puccini’s “La Bohème” more than any other opera. Fans all over the world care about Mimi and Rodolfo as if they were family – or earlier versions...
DATE: Feb. 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
What’s immediately striking about Durango High School Troupe 1096 ’s production of Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” is what you see and hear. The set is sparse – bare tree branches and...
DATE: Feb. 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
The annual production of “The Vagina Monologues” in Durango this weekend will dovetail with the first #MeToo March and Rally, and both events will come with messages that women’s voices and...
DATE: Feb. 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Cortez high schooler Alexandra York had to pause a few times to compose herself. York, a sophomore at Southwest Open School, stood on an empty stage Tuesday at the Sunflower Theatre in Cortez. She...
DATE: Feb. 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
