Performing Arts

[caption id="attachment_34645" align="alignright" width="300"] The incomparable Otis Taylor[/caption] The Telluride Blues and Brews Festival – this year celebrating its 20th year of bringing us late summer bliss – is like any multi-day festival in that it takes a little planning and a little homework to fully...

BEAR IT! Tuesday, September 10 & Wednesday, September 11 @ 8p.m. FREE @ The Fly Me To The Moon Saloon  In 2009 and 2010, "BEAR IT!" an original show created by Telluride Theatre, was played to SOLD OUT Telluride audiences...

Editor’s note: Telluride Inside… and Out’s monthly (more or less) column, Tall Tales, is so named because contributor Mark Stevens is one long drink of water. He is also long on talent. Mark is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan,” both on the shelves...

[caption id="attachment_34213" align="alignright" width="300"] Julia Crockett[/caption] What happens in Telluride does not stay in Telluride – and that is a good thing. And a natural thing, the way of the world, if the subject is the young people who grow up in the region and are...

"Dionysus" takes place at the Ah Haa School, 300 South Townsend, 8 p.m. through Thursday, 8/22. Reservations required. Telluride Theatre's artistic director Sasha Sullivan has a thing for the naked truth. Mostly literally. Think "Burlesque," her annual celebration of pulchritude with attitude. Or her winter blockbuster, an inspired...

With special guests, The Pimps of Joytime & DJ I-Gene Thievery Corporation is a Washington D.C.-based recording artist and DJ duo comprised of Rob Garza, Eric Hilton and supporting artists Rob Myers, Frank "Booty Lock" Mitchell, Jeff Franca and Ashish Vyas. Their music style is a...

Party like it is 1237 B.C. Guess who's coming to dinner? Promise, he will bring the wine. It's Dionysus, who can be scarier than your mother-in-law on a bad hair day and just as unpredictable. The strange and wildly contradictory aspects of the god have, over time, been...

[caption id="attachment_33790" align="alignright" width="300"] Mudd Butts, Initiation Day, with Zach and Jolie in the crowd.[/caption] Ask anyone who has ever attended the Telluride Academy's Mudd Butts Mystery Drama Troupe and they will tell you that theater is the ultimate learning tool – and not just because...

The Sheridan Arts Foundation presents a night of Texas country western swing with Asleep at the Wheel at the historic Sheridan Opera House. The concert takes place Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the show are $35 (plus a $3 ticketing fee)...

[caption id="attachment_33673" align="alignright" width="300"] Sally and Kim working with their cast and young team[/caption] Two classics, Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), include direct references to the novel widely considered among the greatest works of fiction ever...