Performing Arts

"Signature Theatre’s revival of August Wilson’s Piano Lesson brings a timely reminder of how consoling, how restorative, how emotionally sustaining great theatre can be," Charles Isherwood, The New York Times [caption id="attachment_26471" align="alignright" width="300"] Scene, August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson[/caption] Stephen King would have taken the story...

Picture yourself in a deerstalker, brow furrowed, puffing away on a curved pipe. You, a Sherlock Holmes wannabe, are doing what comes naturally. Solving a crime. Start your holiday night off with cocktails, appetizers, awesome entertainment –  and white-knuckle intrigue. Telluride Theatre and the Michael D. Palm are partnering...

[caption id="attachment_25677" align="alignright" width="300"] Karen Akers & musical director Don Rebic, by Maryann Lopinto[/caption] I have two questions for the lady. Who does your hair? (Looks like a Sassoon disciple.) I wouldn't mind the phone number of your dentist either. And this long-stemmed rose of a chanteuse – with...

[caption id="attachment_25647" align="alignright" width="199"] Jerry Joseph[/caption] The Sheridan Arts Foundation presents a special evening of music, Saturday, December 8, 2012, 9 p.m., featuring rocker Jerry Joseph.  Some songwriters just strike down to the heart of things, shaking us with words and wires and something inescapably human. Jerry...

The Wailers, Peter Yarrow, Shawn Colvin, Leftover Salmon and more to play historic Sheridan Opera House winter 2012/2013 [caption id="attachment_25227" align="alignright" width="300"] The Wailers rock the Opera House New Year's Eve[/caption] It may be cold outside, but things are heating up at the historic Sheridan Opera House...

It's a concert for you, but a birthday party for Stu Sundel-Norlin of Joint Point, when the Sheridan Arts Foundation kicks off its winter season with the local jam band. The party takes place Friday, November 23, 8 p.m. Formed in 2009 and named after a...

On Tuesday, October 30, The Telluride Town Council voted unanimously to adopt an update of the Telluride Cultural Master Plan originally adopted in 1996. Telluride Arts facilitated the update in collaboration with the Town of Telluride and CCAASE, and with funding from Colorado Creative Industries...

It’s rare to have an artist on your iPod that you listen to while running and while relaxing. But bluegrass musician Abigail Washburn is just that. Her clawhammer banjo-infused tunes and soulful voice are at once soothing and uplifting. Peaceful and energizing. [caption id="attachment_24412" align="alignright" width="300"]...

Many of us loved journalist Molly Ivins for her political commentary and wit. The New York Times wrote in their obituary for Molly Ivins: “After Patrick J. Buchanan, as a conservative candidate for president, declared at the 1992 Republican National Convention that the United States was...