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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...
02 Jul MOUNTAIN FILM’S JULY EVENT FRIDAY, 7/6/12
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...
01 Jul TELLURIDE COMPASSION FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE
Telluride event highest level conference ever held on the science of compassion For the third year, the Telluride Institute and Stanford University Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, (CCARE), join forces to investigate the science and global potential of compassion, altruism and meditation....
29 Jun ARTISTS CONVENE FOR 9TH ANNUAL TELLURIDE PLEIN AIR
Old idea. New blood. This week, the Telluride region plays host to 30 nationally recognized artists, who will plant easels in alleys, down by the river, smack dab in the middle of Colorado Avenue, and hidden away in various other nooks and crannies of Mother...
20 Jun TELLURIDE BLUEGRASS: NEW DISH SERVED UP BY LEFTOVER SALMON
Last time the band was in town in March, they sold out the first night, encouraging the Sheridan Opera House to schedule a second night. Leftover Salmon returns triumphant to the 39th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, where they appear as the Friday night closer, 10:30...
18 Jun HEAD FOR THE HILLS AT TELLURIDE BLUEGRASS 2012
At the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the spotlight is always on the Main (Fred Shellman) Stage, which this year features the likes of newcomers Della Mae, Laura Marling, Run Boy Run, Seryn, and Devil Makes Three, plus superstars – and regulars who are superstars: Tim O’Brien,...