[Listen to director Sasha Cuciniello of Telluride's SquidShow Theatre, talk about her next theatrical event, a reading of "Lyistrata," by clicking the "play" button on her podcast] About 2,400 years ago, in 411 BC, when an unknown altogether forgotten...
Over forty years after the film captured the hearts of millions, the legacy of "The Sound of Music," The Telluride Repertory Theatre's latest production, lives on in the great grandchildren of Captain and Maria von Trapp – Justin, Amanda, Melanie and Sofia – who...
[click "Play" button to hear Susan's conversation with the Westman family] When the Telluride Repertory Theatre's production of "The Sound of Music" opens next Thursday, March 26, at The Palm, this musical about a singing family with lots of...
The Nugget Theatre in Telluride will be showing Pierre Morel's "Taken", Friday, March 20, at 8:30 pm. Saturday through Wednesday, March 25, showtimes are 6;00 and 8:00 pm each night. Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is a recently retired government "dark arts" specialist whose mission now...
She doesn't fly like Mary Poppins, but she can turn old curtains into play clothes. Telluride's Maria – the irrepressible, unflappable Amy Van Der Bosch – can also teach math (while singing and dancing). This multi-talented nanny is the hands-down star of "The Sound of...
[click "Play" button to hear Susan's interview with actress Carie Kawa]
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends..."
On Thursday, March 19, Telluride's Palm Theatre proudly presents The Acting Company's and Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater's edgy co-production of Shakespeare's "Henry V."
In "Henry V," King Henry of England is no longer the petulant youth who frolicked boisterously with friends in "Henry IV. " Prince Hal has put down his toys and picked up the sword – although he is still young
restless, haughty and ambitious. When he inherits a troubled crown, the born-again Henry seeks to secure his position at home by diverting his country's attention abroad. His target is France, where he launches a hasty invasion to claim his right to a kingdom and the daughter of the King who insulted him with a gift of tennis balls and enforced leek eating.
"The Telluride Film Festival Cinematique at the Wilkinson Public Library" began in January with a quietly elegant film called "The Gleaners," (2000) about people who recycle the detritus of everyday life. The director is "The Mother of French New Wave," Agnes Varda, also a close friend of film scholar/critic/teacher/TFF friend Howie Movshovitz, who moderated.
In a related podcast interview on Telluride Inside...and Out, Movshovitz deferred to Varda in defining French New Wave: "Filmmakers under 30, budgets under 30 million francs – old francs – and no access to lighting."
The French New Wave is to film what Impressionism was to fine art: a seismic shift in the landscape caused by the movement of young filmmakers away from literary masterpieces out into the street. "It was as if someone had opened the window and let air into the room," said Movshovitz." Without the French New Wave there would be no independent film."
In many way, "Jules and Jim" is the apotheosis of the genre.
[click "Play" button to hear Susan's conversation with Michael Schoenfeld]
Not all non-profits are created equal. Some, like Telluride local Michael Schoenfeld's Channel G stand out from the pack.
Channel G is a nonprofit's nonprofit – literally. The 501 (c) (3) organization and media company is in the business of documenting the work of others around the world engaged in environmental, social, and health-related projects. The short-form films Channel G produces get distributed through a wide variety of online outlets and viewed at film festivals such as Telluride Mountainfilm.
Channel G's first fundraiser in town, March 14, 7:30 p.m., at the Sheridan Opera House, hopes to raise the funds necessary to produce a promotional film about the San Miguel County One-To-One Mentoring Program. Michael would like to be able to add other local/regional nonprofits into the mix.
[click "Play" button to hear Susan's interview with Adrian Quesada]Hey, Telluride: Get ready to shake your tail feathers to a Latin beat when 2009 Grammy-nominated Grupo Fantasma – Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album, "Sonidos Gold" – performs twice this week...
[click "Play" button to hear susan's conversation with Michael Ebert]
The fact that programming for Telluride's Palm Theatre now includes some of opera's greatest hits is music to the ears of Telluride fans.The new local series is part of larger series created in 2006 by New York's Metropolitan Opera to expand the appeal and reach of opera around the world. The Met:Live in HD! offers an unprecedented opportunity for those in and around our community with champagne taste for music performance, but little access to or budget for the bubble.
Opera at the Palm opened triumphantly with a broadcast on February 21 of Donizetti's "Lucia Di Lammermoor." It continues this coming weekend, March 13, 7 p.m., with Puccini's "Madama Butterfly." The libretto tells the story of the tragic love affair between a Japanese beauty, Cio-Cio San (Madame Butterfly), and B.F.Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.
