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
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
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
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
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
Once upon a long time ago, her former husband, Bunzy Bunworth,tried to convince his brand new bride to leave the East coast and head West to a ski town in the mountains. Reading up
The news we get out of Africa is generally one-sided and not good. In America, “Africa” spells “t-r-o-u-b-l-e”: AIDS, malaria, genocide, impasse in Zimbabwe, fighting in th
To Fall Deeper in Love with the World Sit with lichen longer than comfort allows. The urge to move must rise and pass, rise and pass, must pass. One wai
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Spring:Come Closer Eager to play, spring bumbles inlike a dizzy beedazed by yellow exuberancewondering which tree, which stem,which blade of new grass
Meredith Nemirov has always painted her mind, and she is known for saying a mouthful in a few strokes – or words. “To stand and face a whole landscape, to paint ‘en plein air
Valerie Madonia The notion of dance in Telluride was not new before Valerie Madonia arrived on the scene. In the 1970s, Jeri McAndrews, a New York transplant and mode
A little canoodling between two local nonprofits is not a bad thing – especially when considering the alternatives, such as more nail-biting over the kerfuffle on Wall Street. Th
Ok, maybe not Seattle exactly, but across the lake in Bellevue, last night Clint and I hooked up with part-time Telluride local and former Mountainfilm director Arlene Chester Burn
Their goal is clear: to entertain and inform. He is in charge of images. Her deal is words. Together George and Beth Gage make highly intelligent, visually seductive documentaries
The mission of the National Film Preserve, the 501 C (3) umbrella corporation under which the Telluride Film Festival operates all year, is to celebrate the art of filmmaking, not
Hollywood regularly spits out films featuring the kvetching narcissistic alpha males who rule Tinsel Town. “Revanche” is an indie flick whose star, Johannes Krisch, is a virtua
“Every work of art is the child of its time; often it is the mother of our emotions,” Wassily Kandinsky in “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” Corinne Creel’s changing land
The living room that looks like a small museum is in fact the studio of local artist Robert Weatherford, a Telluride original. (He paints at the far end of the room, not shown.) We
Once the cat is out of the bag – the directors of the Telluride Film Festival are notorious for keeping their selections top secret – and the weekend is in full swing, th
The Telluride Film Festival was going on both inside theatres and out on the street. Not everyone was interested in the movies: several young people were jumping on trampolene/bung
It must be in the zeitgeist. The 35th annual Telluride Film Festival was all about change we can believe in. In film after film, we watched Everyman underdogs beat the odds and tri
One word of advice- don’t miss "American Violet". Telluride loved it.
This is our first film this year. On line old friends are greeting not yet adding to the buzz of this film or that. The weather is Telluride beautiful- a few puffy clouds, temperat