Performing Arts

Clint on link below to purchase your tickets Your prayers have been answered. After the fist Jewel concert sold out in seven minutes online, the Sheridan Arts Foundation has been able to add a second concert: Sunday, August 19, 7:30 p.m., Sheridan Opera House. The evening once...

At 43 years young, the former prodigy is widely considered one of the best trumpet players in the world. Since his emergence in the late 1980s, acclaimed trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Roy Hargrove has firmly established himself as one of this generation's premier performers in...

Saturday, Aug. 18 at 7:30 p.m., the Sheridan Opera House hosts an evening with the acclaimed singer-songwriter Jewel. Jewel and her husband, World Champion Rodeo Cowboy Ty Murray, are spending the summer in Telluride and she jumped at the opportunity to perform on the historic...

Remember the headlines? They keep coming. Cover-ups to protect the guilty – and the church's reputation. Footsies in a bathroom stall. The affair with the wife of a senior staffer. Tweeting body parts. Dirty showers and iconic statues ditched. When it happens, we find ourselves...

Friday July 27, 1 p.m., free to the public What do you get when you mix 12 amazingly talented children, one beautiful historic theater, a classic childhood story, some great music and five days of theatrical fun? Answer: The SAF Young People’s Theater Summer Spectacular. An intensive...

The Sheridan Arts Foundation is proud to present an intimate evening with rock, folk legends Hot Tuna, the acoustic trio, at the historic Sheridan Opera House on Sunday, July 22 at 8 p.m. The trio features Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, founders and continuing core...

In a way, the Bard set the stage for – oh lord, shut me up – reality TV when he concocted tales of sex, power and morality in complex tragicomedies as "Measure for Measure." However, in the end, a sanctimonious hypocrite gets a totally to...

Editor's note: From "Darkness to Light" arrived on my doorstep about a month ago, courtesy of a former classmate at Gary Kraftsow's Viniyoga teacher training program in 2008, Trish Elting. Early for Christmas but perfect time in the roll-up to Telluride Yoga Festival, this weekend,...

Drama survives because it eludes trends. Good drama finds poetry in the flotsam and jetsam of our lives. It survives because it extrapolates what is universal and external from quotidian muddles in a way that heightens an audience's self-awareness. In so doing, a good play...

Rock, country, soul Thursday July 5 at the Opera House The Sheridan Arts Foundation kicks off its year-long Centennial Celebration with "An Evening with Lucero." The event caps the Foundation's week-long Telluride Plein Air and takes place Thursday, July 5 at 9 p.m. Next summer, July 2013,...