The 40th annual Telluride Jazz Festival, August Friday 5- Sunday August 7, 2016, announces former student band all-star Veronica Swift joins the exciting line-up. She returns to Telluride with Colorado jazz greats The Eric Gunnison Trio. Tickets/passes here. At age 10, Veronica Swift made her Telluride Jazz Festival debut as part...
Tickets to the Telluride American Songbook Concerts’ tribute to Wendy Brooks, Friday, July 1, can be purchased here. Tickets for Marilyn Maye’s tribute to Frank Sinatra, Saturday, July 2, 8 p.m. are available here. Further questions, email michaelsongbook@gmail.com or phone 970.728.7053. They are both divas in a way. Though only...
Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation’s Young People’s Theater wraps up its 2015-2016 season with “The Audition,” a one-act play by Don Zolidis, directed and adapted by Jennifer Julia When: Monday, May 23, 2016, 6 p.m., doors at 5:30 p.m. Where: Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, Colorado, 110 N. Oak Street Ticket...
Denver’s Curious Theatre Company’s now featuring “White Guy on the Bus (through June 24). Tickets here. Below is award-winning writer (and our Denver critic) Mark Stevens' take on the production. [caption id="attachment_58891" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Rachel Bouchard (Molly), Andy Woldschmidt (Christopher), Sam Gregory (Ray) and Dee Covington (Roz) in "White Guy on...
The names are Telluride legends: world-famous actor/singer/songwriter Keith Carradine once lived in town, where, back in the early 1990s, he and his then wife Sandra owned and operated the historic Sheridan Opera House under the auspices of the Sheridan Arts Foundation. [caption id="attachment_58376" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Carradine, Mason, Kosek & Trsichka...
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ production of "Sweeney Todd” gets a rave from Tall Tales columnist Mark Stevens, TIO’s Denver theatre critic. Through May 15. Tickets here. [caption id="attachment_58314" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Robert Petkoff as Sweeney Todd, the bloodthirsty barber of Fleet Street. Courtesy, The Denver Center.[/caption] Before...
Did you ever notice, probably in retrospect, that trips often appear to have been planned around a theme? And then remembered that the theme was inadvertent? This Telluride Inside...
Major talent - and legend in her own times. But a relatively minor brand today – despite her unique talent and rolling legacy. And yet...
I ain’t telling no lie (or my nose would grow like Pinocchio): when you wish upon a "Bright Star,” your dreams of a magical night on Broadway come true. [caption id="attachment_58082" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Carmen Cusack makes her Broadway debut in “Bright Srar.” (courtesy, broadway.com)[/caption] The inspiration for Steve...
Telluride’s Fly Me To The Moon Saloon wraps up its winter 2016 season with a Pigeons Playing Ping Pong Two Night Run, the Return of Cranford Hollow, Tribute Acts Naive Melodies A Tribute To The Talking Heads, Pickin’ On Ween and DJ noDJ. The Winter live music season is...
