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30 Aug TELLURIDE FILM FEST: MEYER WITH THE FEATURES & MORE
In a digital, real-time world, surprise is an endangered species. So, go ahead and try. Surprise me. So far, no surprises at the RNC. Same old pasteurized pap. It would surprise me if Romney made his entrance in a car with his dog tied to...
01 Aug FINAL CINEMA FOR SEASON MONDAY NIGHT
Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque at Wilkinson Public Library: A Summer of Screwball Comedy The Wilkinson Public Library and the Telluride Film Festival invite all community members to experience Cinematheque, a free local film club for film lovers and aficionados who crave cinematic exploration, lively discussion...
24 Jul WEIGHING IN ON MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Remember the headlines? They keep coming. Cover-ups to protect the guilty – and the church’s reputation. Footsies in a bathroom stall. The affair with the wife of a senior staffer. Tweeting body parts. Dirty showers and iconic statues ditched. When it happens, we find ourselves...
16 Jul TELLURIDE THEATRE: “MEASURE FOR MEASURE”
In a way, the Bard set the stage for – oh lord, shut me up – reality TV when he concocted tales of sex, power and morality in complex tragicomedies as “Measure for Measure.” However, in the end, a sanctimonious hypocrite gets a totally to...
08 Jul PLAYWRIGHTS FEST WELCOMES RUSSIAN DIRECTOR
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...
06 Jul PLAYWRIGHTS FEST: DUBAC STARS IN “FREE RANGE THINKING”
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,...
04 Jul THEATRE FESTIVAL: “THEATRE POLITICOS SPEAK UP”
Drama survives because it eludes trends. Good drama finds poetry in the flotsam and jetsam of our lives. It survives because it extrapolates what is universal and external from quotidian muddles in a way that heightens an audience’s self-awareness. In so doing, a good play...
03 Jul POETS’ CORNER: BRIDGER FOR THE 4TH
Editor’s Note: Kierstin Bridger is the 2011 winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. Possibly the edgiest member of our family of writers/poets, including Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and “Feelosophy” major David Feela, her...