On Valentine's Day, we suggest an early dinner at your favorite local watering hole and laughs for dessert. As sure as Cupid's arrow, barbs tossed from the stage of the historic Sheridan Opera House are guaranteed to hit their mark – us – when the...
[caption id="attachment_27470" align="alignright" width="236"] Monophonics[/caption] Telluride Blues & Brews Festival brings back the funk with Monophonics. The music is Saturday, February 9, doors, 9:30 p.m., show time, 10 p.m., Telluride Elk’s Lodge, 472 W. Pacific Avenue. Over the past seven years, Monophonics have staked their claim as...
Anyone who has ever seen a play written by Telluride Theatre's artistic director Sasha Sullivan knows her timing is perfect. The company's upcoming production is no exception: it illustrates the arc of the gay movement from closet to the soapbox where a newly inaugurated president...
[caption id="attachment_27076" align="alignright" width="225"] Dr. David Lingle, 2002, Telluride[/caption] Dr. David Lingle (9/27/1954-1/17/2013) On Thursday, January 17, 6:30 p.m., Dr. David Lingle, former Artistic Director of the Telluride Choral Society, passed away peacefully in Sandwich, MA. David was an unbelievably talented member of the Telluride community, who served...
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...
It's all about the remix. Diavolo Dance Company reinvents dance, re-imagining the medium as high drama, its team of dancers, gymnasts and actors pushing movement to the extreme. Performing with astounding athleticism, the company appears to defy gravity. Diavolo performs at the Palm Theatre Sunday, January 20,...
Both illumines humanity's darkest period from a fresh perspective while delivering the story of an astonishing hero little known in America," Erica Abeel, Huffington Post Josh Aronson is a long-time, part-time Telluride local and a full-time Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker. A survey of his filmography suggests the...
"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...
