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For 36 hours last November, Durango’s 20MOONS Dance Theatre held its “What is True?” at Durango Arts Center. For 36 consecutive hours, participants were invited into the gallery to write, dance,...
DATE: June 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Merely Players will hold open auditions for “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare. One of the most powerful plays of all time will come to the Merely Players stage in winter 2020. Auditions are open to...
DATE: June 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
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, “box.” has been...
DATE: May 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Paris, July, 1794: “Today, 40 individuals had their heads cut off, including 16 Carmélite nuns from Compiègne.” That brief, contemporaneous note about a mass execution during the Reign of Terror...
DATE: May 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
For its dreamy production of “Mamma Mia!,’ Merely Players has created an Aegean illusion. A cozy tourist hotel on a tiny Greek island features a friendly bar, a warm beach and one comfy room. What...
DATE: May 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Cirque de Lycée, a joint show put on by Durango Aerial Arts & Acrobatics and The Durango Circus, not only depicts high school life – the name of the show means “high school circus” in French – but...
DATE: May 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
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 student-run...
DATE: May 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
When members of Durango High School Troupe 1096 take the stage next week for their latest performance, it will be a show that will stick with audiences long after the curtain goes down. Set in...
DATE: April 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Comedy Showcase Durango turns 3 this year, and it has no plans of slowing down, said founder Wes Stein. In fact, he said, the Showcase is only getting bigger. In addition to the weekly open mics...
DATE: April 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Communication themes take center stage at Cortez Middle School, as theater students tackle the 1957 drama “The Miracle Worker.” The play tells the story of Helen Keller, the famous deaf-blind child...
DATE: April 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
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 insects you’ll see in...
DATE: April 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
“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 once and gets a...
DATE: March 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Fort Lewis College is updating about a dozen panels at the Clock Tower in the center of campus to better recognize the past, "in a way that's fully inclusive of our Native American community on campus and the families directly affected by Indian boarding schools."
