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Outsiders and insiders. It’s an old story, from fairy tales to the modern stage. Google Cinderella, an archetype for exclusion who eventually gains acceptance, and you’ll find thousands of variants...
DATE: April 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Sensory overload? The kind teenagers revel in and adults complain about? What about the precarious bombardment felt by a kid on the outer edges of autism? “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the...
DATE: March 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Native author Tommy Orange, 39, begins his award-winning novel “There There” with a short riff on the American Indian-head test pattern used in early television. From there, Orange accelerates into...
DATE: March 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Books
If three’s a charm, then 11 may be magic. March musical madness has blown in with a tornado of local concerts. Between tonight and March 13, there are 11. The Durango Choral Society presents...
DATE: March 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Music
“When I write about ethnicity, I try to do it from the inside,” playwright A. Rey Pamatmat said in an interview with American Theatre Magazine . “I think that it’s more interesting if the audience...
DATE: Nov. 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
“We are theater makers not filmmakers. So, the challenge has been to find a way to present a play that reflects that,” said Merely Players Director Mona Wood-Patterson. “I chose Will Eno’s ‘WAKEY,...
DATE: Oct. 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Will the biggest of all art forms, grand opera, survive the pandemic? Will die-hard Durango fans ever gather again Saturday mornings at Fort Lewis College for The MET Live in HD? Who knows? As of...
DATE: Oct. 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
When saxophonist Jeff Solo saunters onto a stage with his inimitable smile, you know you are in for a jazzy treat. That will be the case at 3 p.m. Sunday, when Solon joins other Fort Lewis College...
DATE: Oct. 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music
Merely Players is at it again. Our evergreen local theater company has found yet another new location in which to perform – Jenkins Ranch Park. From Sept. 24 to 27, the players will refresh a...
DATE: Sept. 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
“PIVOT: Skateboard Deck Art” will change the way you think about contemporary painting. The new exhibition at Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College is finally open to the public....
DATE: Aug. 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts
Here are eight reasons to catch Merely Players’ “Zoom Alice: A Wonderland Adventure for a Topsy Turvy World” before it disappears online by the end of Saturday, June 20. 1. A tight, contemporary...
DATE: June 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
“We can wait to go back to an uncertain ‘normal’ or we can work with what is,” Mona Wood-Patterson said in a recent interview. Co-founder and artistic director of Merely Players, Wood-Patterson...
DATE: June 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
