Performing Arts

By the time Veronica Novak holds up a piece of paper and asks if the three other adults are comfortable with “the statement,” we know where this is headed. This moment happens just a few seconds after the lights have come up. The play starts mid-scene...

[caption id="attachment_30032" align="alignright" width="300"] Keb' Mo' with The Time Jumpers[/caption] I grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry on a big old battery powered radio; I've spent a lot of my life pickin' and singin' country music; I've traveled all over this country and the...

[caption id="attachment_29888" align="alignright" width="300"] Scene from "People." Image shot by the BBC.[/caption] Tuesday, April 30, 7 p.m., SPARKY Productions presents Alan Bennett’s new play "People" as part of the first NT LIVE program with Telluride's Palm Theatre. NT LIVE is a simulcast, live broadcast of a National...

Editor's Note:  Sometimes the truth is strange, stranger than fiction. Sometimes it is fiction. Sometimes it is both. We saw Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities," a play about truth, in preview. Denver Center policy prohibits reviews of previews, so I obediently sat on my...

[caption id="attachment_29085" align="alignright" width="275"] The Cave Singers[/caption] At the dawn of the new millennium, meditative, folky indie acts drew juice from canonical folkies such as Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie and took off like a house on fire, among them, The Cave Singers. Mark your calendar. Denise...

[caption id="attachment_28977" align="alignright" width="275"] The Dunwells[/caption] The Sheridan Arts Foundation presents British folk rock band The Dunwells, with opening support from Bronze Radio Return. The performance takes place on Sunday, March 24, 2013. Doors are at 7:30 p.m.; show time is 8 p.m. Seats are out...

Featured with Paper Bird, Thursday, March 21 [caption id="attachment_28915" align="alignright" width="290"] He's My Brother, She's My Sister[/caption] The Sheridan Arts Foundation presents one night of two very talented indie-pop bands,  He’s My Brother She’s My Sister and Paper Bird.  The event takes place Thursday, March 21, 2013...

After wowing audiences at the 2012 Telluride Blues & Brews, the Sheridan Arts Foundation is proud to host the return of Seattle’s neo-soul band, Pickwick. The concert takes place Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Show time is 8 p.m. The opening...

To celebrate the 1991 marriage of the Sheridan Arts Foundation and the Sheridan Opera House, the Sheridan Opera House is hosting 80s costume party with "This Must Be the Band," a Talking Heads Tribute Band. The event takes place Saturday, March 16, 2013. (Doors at...

[caption id="attachment_28773" align="alignright" width="300"] Telluride Choral Society[/caption] In "A River Runs Through It, "Norman Maclean claims that “in my family, there is no clear line between religion and fly-fishing.” Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother...