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Picture a cast running around backstage, rehearsing their lines from wrinkled, highlighted scripts while adjusting their costumes. The air smells of hairspray and makeup. It’s all for “The...
DATE: April 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
LOS ANGELES – Don Rickles, the big-mouthed, bald-headed comedian whose verbal assaults endeared him to audiences and peers and made him the acknowledged grandmaster of insult comedy, died Thursday....
DATE: April 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Ah yes, words matter. Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance” is a zany operetta about duty, love, promises and what we say to each other. At every turn, there’s comic confusion because of...
DATE: March 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Rare is the time I get to leave the office in the middle of the afternoon to go see something that is almost certain to make me laugh, but that’s exactly what happened Tuesday. Durango High...
DATE: March 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
LONDON – Magical adventure “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” leads the race for British theater’s Olivier Awards , with nominations in 11 categories including best new play. Jamie Parker, who...
DATE: March 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Early in Act I of “Rusalka,” the witch Ježibaba mixes a lethal potion. Her client, Rusalka, is a dreamy adolescent mermaid who yearns to become human. She’s smitten with a daft prince wearing a...
DATE: Feb. 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
What to do Saturday morning is complicated this year. At 11 a.m., you can participate in the big downtown Durango march and make a personal statement about the incoming administration. Or, you can...
DATE: Jan. 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
NEW YORK – Tony Award-winner James Monroe Iglehart is trading in his genie bottle for a place in American history onstage. Iglehart, the star of “Aladdin” on Broadway, will join “Hamilton” in the...
DATE: Jan. 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Improv comedy troupe Durango DOT Comedy will be putting on a show this weekend at the Durango Arts Center theater. Audience participation is a big part of the night: Spectators are given the...
DATE: Jan. 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
“L’Amour de Loin” (Love from Afar) is a new opera about an old human condition: longing for love and connection. Because it is based on historical figures and involves distances, obstacles and...
DATE: Dec. 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Every December for the past 10 years, families have been heading to the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College for the yearly production of “The Nutcracker,” presented by the State Street...
DATE: Dec. 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
A holiday mainstay, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a story we’re all familiar with: King of the grouchy misers Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future and...
DATE: Dec. 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
