11 Jan SAF: “The Last Class With Robert Reich,” 1/30/26!
Telluride’s Sheridan Arts Foundation (SAF) presents “The Last Class with Robert Reich.” The event takes place at the historic Sheridan Opera House on Friday, January 30, 2026. Show times are 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Doors open 30 minutes prior.
Tickets are $23 for adults; $18 for 18 and under/students. They are available online at www.sheridanoperahouse.com until an hour before the show, then at the box office when doors open 30 minutes prior. Tickets are also available by calling 970.728.6363 ext. 4.
One raffle ticket is included with each purchase, with additional raffle tickets available for $5 each or 5/$20. Raffle prizes include a pair of skis at each showing thanks to Black Tie Ski Rentals.
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The Last Class with Robert Reich, January 29, 2026 6:00 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, CO. Courtesy Sheridan Arts Foundation.
“The Last Class” is a nuanced and deeply personal portrait of master educator Robert Reich teaching his final course and reflecting on a period of immense transformation, personally and globally.
The doc is a love letter to education. The former Secretary of Labor might be famous for his public service, best-selling books, and viral social media posts, but he always considered teaching his true calling. Now, after over 40 years and an extraordinary 40,000 students, Reich is preparing for his last class.
Over the course of the film, Reich confronts the impending finality, and his own aging, with increasing candor, introspection, and, ultimately, emotion. He displays a rawness of feeling he has never shared publicly before. Drawing on his lifetime in politics, he uses his class, “Wealth and Poverty,” to offer us all a deeper look at why inequalities of income and wealth have widened significantly since the late 1970s, and why this poses dangerous risks to our society.
One thousand students fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich’s wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation’s ability to take on the fight is inspiring.
Sheridan Opera House, more:
The Sheridan Arts Foundation was founded in 1991 as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization to preserve the historic Sheridan Opera House as an arts and cultural resource for the Telluride community, to bring quality arts and cultural events to Telluride and to provide local and national youth with access and exposure to the arts through education.
The Sheridan Arts Foundation is sponsored in part by grants from the CCAASE, Colorado Creative Industries, the Town of Mountain Village, Just for Kids Foundation and Telluride Foundation.
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