It may be children’s theater, but the Telluride Academy’s Mudd Butt Mystery Theatre Troupe has never shied away from the deep issues that confront the human condition. [caption id="attachment_43818" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Clay, Sally & Kim, putting this year’s Mudd Butts script together[/caption] Playfully woven into an often wacky story...
This spring, when the winter snow melted off the trails and I got back on my bike, I felt happy. It wasn’t contentment or fulfillment ---or some hard earned new age happiness that one can only achieve though practicing mindfulness or gratitude. Instead, it...
Featuring "Hansel & Gretel," July 14 – July 18, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Performance Friday, July 18, 1 p.m. The week-long summer camp was designed for kids ages 8 to 10 who like to sing, act, dance and just have a good time with group dynamics. Since Monday, July 14, the Sheridan...
Under the pretext of celebrating the anniversary of our nation’s independence, every fourth, Americans gather. From the corners of America’s small rural towns to the avenues of her most distinguished cities, families participate in traditions that they have been playing out for generations -- gathering...
The original resolution calling for the Continental Congress to declare the United States free from British rule was introduced by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia on June 7, 1776. Three days later, a committee headed by Thomas Jefferson was appointed to prepare a document appropriate...
Sally Davis is a musician, theater director, performer and arts educator and half of the dream team that founded the Telluride Academy’s legendary Mudd Butts, now in its 28th year. (The other half is award-winning choreographer, director, performer, vocalist, educator Kim Epifano.) But the mystery...
Under the direction of Laurel Robinson, the mission of the reborn Telluride Wine Festival (June 26 – June 29) includes children’s health (through improved nutrition) and education. In that spirit, Robinson offered the Patron’s Pavilion at Gondola Plaza to the Pinhead Institute, now under the...
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years," Mark Twain As day follows...
To honor the memory of his father on Father’s Day, David Feela choose to continue a tradition scholars say might have emerged from Babylonian ruins, where upon a 4,000 years ago, a boy named Elmesu carved a message of good health and long life to his...
