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23 Jul YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATER PRESENTS “RAGGEDY ANN & ANDY”
Friday July 27, 1 p.m., free to the public What do you get when you mix 12 amazingly talented children, one beautiful historic theater, a classic childhood story, some great music and five days of theatrical fun? Answer: The SAF Young People’s Theater Summer Spectacular. An...
15 Jul EMILIANA SIMON-THOMAS KEYNOTES TELLURIDE INSTITUTE’S COMPASSION FESTIVAL 2012
The opening night of this year’s Compassion Festival will feature a keynote address by Dr. Emiliana Simon-Thomas, the Science Director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. Emiliana’s talk—entitled “Compassion: The Radical Solution to Discord and Diffidence” —is slated for this coming Wednesday,...
13 Jul TELLURIDE BLUES & BREWS KICKS OFF WITH LITTLE HURRICANE
The 19th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is proud to announce San Diego Blues/Rock duo Little Hurricane for the Bal de Maison, a special weekend opening performance at the historic Sheridan Opera House. The event takes place Thursday, September 13, 9 p.m. Little Hurricane currently...
11 Jul KAROW NEW FACE OF TELLURIDE TV
The new face of Telluride TV is not just pretty. Executive director Katie Karow is hell bent and determined to re-establish the public access station, the smallest in the country, as a go-to media platform in the region. And she is making fast tracks in...
09 Jul TELLURIDE INSTITUTE’S COMPASSION FESTIVAL 2012 BEGINS JULY 18
Twin events are headed to town to take place at Telluride’s Palm Theater and the historic Sheridan Opera House from July 18 – 22: The Telluride Institute’s Compassion Festival, “No Place like Home” and “The Science of Compassion,” a joint venture between the Institute and...
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...