The Telluride Playwrights Festival, July 9 – July 15, brings playwrights, directors and actors to town from all over to workshop new works. Main Stage reading for the 2012 Festival include: "Chez Rikers" is a new comedy by Charles Leipart in which a well-to-do couple find themselves...
In 1996, a young comedian came to town to perform at the Sheridan Opera House. On opening night, the house was a perfectly respectable two-thirds full. Within 24 hours, however, after the buzz hit the street: writer and actor Bob Dubac (and his one-man show,...
Telluride Compassion Festival welcomes Dr. James Doty Dan Buettner was one of the many charismatic presenters at Mountainfilm in Telluride 2012. Buettner spoke twice at the event based on findings summed up in his two books: "The Blue Zone: Lessons for Living Longer from the People...
Reception 6:30 p.m. Films & guest presentations 7:30 p.m. Also breakfast talks, one Friday morning at Hotel Madeline. Mountainfilm in Telluride: the 34th annual event may have ended with the close of Memorial Weekend, but the beat goes on. Its mission – "To educate and inspire...
Writing about yoga instructor Erin Fleming, I feel compelled to quote Sarah Powers, from "Insight Yoga": "Yoga can best be understood as a set of behaviors that develops a holistic experience of the body, heart, and mind… A yoga practice is therefore an in-depth training in...
The gravitational center of the Telluride Musicfest, June 27 – July 8, is its artistic director, the beautiful and charismatic violinist Maria Bachmann and the founding trio, The Trio Solisti: Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Jon Klibonoff. The group is renowned worldwide for...
Last April I visited Moscow as part of an American theatre group, attending the Russian Case Theatre festival. All the talk was of the public protests in November, where a few thousand brave people marched in the freezing cold, against the repressive Putin regime. Now spring...
Editor's note: Yes, I know, I am posting this from the media tent. We are hard into Telluride Bluegrass with talent like k.d.lang, Sam Bush, John Cowan, Jerry Douglas, Bruce Hornsby yet to come this weekend. Yes I know, posting this announcement from Telluride Blues...
It’s all about the song. Whatever the genre, it’s good songwriting that propels the listener to another place, sparks the imagination, and opens the heart. The Telluride Troubadour Competition, one of the crown jewels of the glittering summer-gold tiara that is the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, attracts...
Thursday morning in Town Park, Telluride, Colorado: There is some quiet activity as last minute preparations are being made for the day's program. There are festival workers going about their business, the sun is shining, the grass is green (it will turn Blue later), and a...
