Top Brass: Family holiday concert at Opera House Saturday
[ click play button to hear] Brass-tacks: On Saturday, December 27, the historic Sheridan Opera House presents the Holiday Brass Quintet, all members of the Colorado Symphony Orche
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Jeweler Barbara Heinrich Returns to Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
[click the play button to hear] Her ice is nice and Barbara Heinrich’s award-winning baubles, bangles and beads are masterpieces of quiet elegance, not “statement pieces” tha
Erick Bricking Discusses A Christmas Carol
[Click the play button to hear] When Dickens wrote his “ghostly little tale,” he could not know that A Christmas Carol would become one of the most beloved holiday traditions o
JEB’S OFFICE PARTY
In the following video clip, Jesse James Martin, Ashley Boling, and Paul Jones talk about the crazy characters they play in director Jeb Berrier’s Christmas romp “Bob’s Holid
The Palm Presents A Christmas Carol
Scrooge. Tiny Tim. Bah — humbug! The words from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol hang in the frosty holiday air like our chilled breath. More than a century and a half
Jeb Berrier Discusses His Play, Office Party
[Click the play button to hear] Jeb Berrier is Robin Williams on skis: a deranged lunatic with exhibitionist leanings and talent to burn. During the Christmas season, the actor/dir
Historian Chef Alice Ross Discusses “A Christmas Dinner”
[Click the play button to hear] Alice Ross, the culinary historian author of the Afterword in A Christmas Dinner, put out by Red Rock Press, has worked 20 years as a dedicated food
“Telluride Inside…and Out” and Red Rock Press
“Telluride Inside…and Out” is all about what makes Telluride sing, which comes down to the soaring, quirky, original voices of locals such as Ilene and Richard Barth, pedigre
Kids With Axes: R&RA at Opera House Tonight
The Beats Tonight, December 13, 7PM at the Sheridan Opera House the Rock And Roll Academy will be performing its Fifth Annual Winter Rock Concert. This year’s show wil
Feed Me, Seymour!
Those who know her, know that Susan is a prolific writer. That has not changed. Plus, she has help now. A few of you may have noticed you were missing your email notifications of n
Galbo’s Rock and Roll Academy Concert at Opera House, Saturday
Interview with Mark Galbo of Rock and Roll Academy
Telluride Choral Society continues WinterSing concert series
David Lingle Around the world no holiday is more closely associated with music than Christmas. Locally it would not be Christmas without the Telluride Choral Society’s an
Valerie Madonia talks about “Nutcrackers” – past and present
Valerie Madonia talks about "The Nutcracker"
“The Nutcracker” – Clouded History to Success in Telluride
In the face of the undeniable fact that year after year, town after town around the world thrills to the spectacle of a twinkling Christmas tree on growth hormones and a flurry of
CCL’s “Revenge of the Reindeer” at Opera House, Thursday Night
Add comedy to the list of unsolved mysteries right after the Big Bang and black holes. In the Woody Allen movie “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” one character describes what tickles
Telluride Dance Academy Presents “The Nutcracker”
Rebekah Diaddigo,Sugar Plum Fairy Thanks to the gift of memory, we make Nat “King” Cole rituals of the holidays. Folks dressed up like Eskimos build frosty snowmen. As
Choral Society’s WinterSing Holiday Concerts
The Telluride Choral Society's annual WinterSing concert series celebrates the Holiday Season with a eclectic program of Holiday music old and new. Join us for an evening of wa
“Nutcracker” Coming to Telluride
On Sunday afternoon Susan and I were privileged to watch Valerie Madonia rehearsing some of the principals in the Telluride Dance Academy's upcoming production of "The Nut
Who is Jen?
Today she is a wife, mother and beloved director/mentor but growing up, Jen Nyman Julia was a theatre brat. Her parents ran Starflower Productions in her hometown of Winslow, Maine
Move over Mary, Emma’s flying high
In 1905, Maude Adams played Pan. Jean Arthur flew in the 1950s production. In the 1990s, former champion gymnast Cathy Rigby made Pan her signature role. But it was Mary Martin who
Back-of-the-napkin-history of Peter Pan:
Before it was a play, “Peter Pan” was a small story in a book written by Scottish novelist James Matthew Barrie. Later Barrie himself turned “The Little White Bird” into a
Sheridan Arts Foundation’s Young People’s Theatre: then and now
Ten years ago, when a starry-eyed go-getter named Jen Nyman (now Julia) arrived in town to build a young people’s theatre program at the historic Sheridan Opera House, Telluride
Curtain up on revitalized Telluride Repertory Theatre
Kicker: 2009 season features “The Sound of Music” and “Taming of the Shrew” When the New York Shakespeare Festival staged its adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of