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With a winning cast and a laugh-out-loud vaudeville, The Pursuit of Happiness opened last weekend at Durango Melodrama. The inimitable Daryl Kuntz has returned as music director, multitasking at...
DATE: June 13, 2011 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
The Durango Melodrama will add a second production for its 2011 season, which begins Friday at the Henry Strater Theatre.In its return to the Strater Hotels house theater after a failed experiment...
DATE: June 6, 2011 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Its not often that I can watch a story thats nearly 150 years old and be kept in suspense as to how it ends.But I know Im not the only man in town who has never read Little Women, and so I wont...
DATE: June 2, 2011 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
The program for Thingamajig Theatre Companys production of Brilliant Traces is hooked inside the hardbound cover of a former book with two-ring binders. The scene, we are told, is a remote cabin...
DATE: May 23, 2011 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
The Salt Fire Circus is down to just two acts.Fortunately, for audiences accustomed to the casts barrage of song, dance and feats of amazement, those acts last about two hours.The Elixir is the...
DATE: May 19, 2011 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
The good news is that contracts have been signed for next years The Met: Live in HD series. Yes, the Saturday morning telecasts of Metropolitan Opera performances will continue to be seen at the...
DATE: May 12, 2011 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
When Rochelle Mann put out a call for submissions for the Durango Arts Centers first 10-Minute Play Contest, she never expected to receive 92 scripts in return.That made her job, and that of DAC...
DATE: May 12, 2011 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
The Pagosa Springs High School production of Les Misérables is a testament of the importance of arts education. Les Miz is a world-famous, complicated and difficult production. Its sung...
DATE: May 5, 2011 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Never assume that getting published makes a writer a good writer.As evidence, sample this gem from The Ghost Downstairs, a novel by author Molly Ringle, inexplicably selected for publication by The...
DATE: May 5, 2011 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
They could have taken the easy route. They could have chosen a classic American play, a beloved comedy of manners or a Shakespearean drama. They could have polished any number of existing scripts...
DATE: May 2, 2011 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Wildly popular when it was first performed in 1853, Il Trovatore continues to drive opera lovers crazy.Verdis big Spanish tragedy stirred audiences all over Europe and still moves people to...
DATE: April 28, 2011 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
