Apr 28: Kendall Haven at Third Street Center

Posted by on Apr 19, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments Kendall Haven entertains, inspires and informs … Research scientist turned master storyteller, Kendall Haven comes to Carbondale for 3 days of storytelling and story consulting. On Sunday April 28th, Haven will perform at the Third St Center, taking those aged 7 to 107 on a journey to the farthest reaches of their imagination. On Monday and Tuesday, Haven will be offering how-to...
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April 19-28: James and the Giant Peach by SoL Theatre Company

Posted by on Apr 19, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments Bring your sense of adventure to see James and the Giant Peach, the latest creation of SoL Theatre Company, Carbondale’s own youth theatre company. This magical play is adapted from the beloved children’s book written by Roald Dahl. After James’ happy life in the English seaside is rudely disrupted when his parents are killed by a crazed rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two...
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April 12 – 21: Bleacher Bums at Colorado Mountain College Theatre

Posted by on Apr 14, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments “Bleacher Bums,” the brainchild of actor Joe Mantegna and written by Chicago’s Organic Theatre Company, opens at Colorado Mountain College in Spring Valley on April 12. In this wacky comedy, the bleachers at Wrigley Field are packed with die-hard Chicago Cubs fans ready to bet big on America’s favorite pastime.   Bleacher Bums // CMC Theatre // Directed by Gary Ketzenbarger // Apr....
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Apr 18-20: The Little Mermaid, Jr. by Theatre Aspen School

Posted by on Apr 14, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments Theatre Aspen School offers the Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop presentation of Disney’s timeless classic The Little Mermaid, Jr., playing for 4 performances April 18-20 at the Wheeler Opera House. Based on the famous film, The Little Mermaid takes place in a magical kingdom beneath the sea. A beautiful young mermaid named Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above....
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Feb 28 – Mar 23: The Foreigner, Comedy at Snowmass Chapel

Posted by on Mar 11, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments Snowmass Chapel Winter Concert Series presents The Foreigner - a hilarious, award winning play by Larry Shue. Charlie Baker has a problem. He is terribly scared of conversation with strangers. His friend, “Froggy,” drops him off for a (not so voluntary) stay at a fishing lodge in rural Georgia. To assure peace and quiet for the socially challenged Charlie, Froggy introduces him as an...
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Mar 15-17: Guys & Dolls by The Garden School

Posted by on Mar 11, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments The Tony Award winning musical comedy GUYS AND DOLLS is a sure bet that soars with the spirit of Broadway! Set in vivid, early-20th Century New York City and buoyed by a Frank Loesser score that is among the most immortal works in theater history, this American classic has been called “the perfect musical comedy.” Featuring an eclectic ensemble of high-rolling gamble “guys,”...
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Feb 15 + 16, Mar 16: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

Posted by on Feb 9, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments For seventeen years, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s distinctive style has earned glowing reviews and enthusiastic audience receptions around the globe. This innovative dance company returns home this February with a program featuring Jiři Kylián’s poignant Return to a Strange Land, Alejandro Cerrudo’s striking new ballet Last, and Trey McIntyre’s seductive Like a Samba. The company the Chicago...
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April 5: Melange! – Hudson Reed Ensemble Benefit

Posted by on Feb 9, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments MELANGE! A Benefit for Hudson Reed Ensemble’s free Shakespeare-in-the-Park. Jazz, Country, Pop, Fats Waller and a taste of the Bard…..all served up by Bobby Mason, Dan Sadowsky, Sara Stevens, Ed Foran, Jennica Deely, Franz Aldefer and a whole lot more. It’s not gonna be your average fundraiser!   Melange! // @Aspen Community Church (Bleeker str.) // Friday, April 5, 7:30...
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March 22 + 23: Unmarried in America

Posted by on Feb 9, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments Inspired by the Prop 8 Trial in California, and informed by interviews with “regular people” affected by marriage bans across the country, “Unmarried in America” explores the personal ramifications of the national debate surrounding gay marriage. The play employs a collage of vignettes that take place beyond the halls of justice, in America’s homes, schools and public spaces, where...
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April 7: The Salon at Justice Snow’s

Posted by on Feb 9, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments Another “Salon” at Justice Snow’s is coming up. It will include music, dance and poetry and promises to be an extraordinary sharing of local artistic talent. Andrea Clear Clearfield and Alya Howe are curators and hosts for the evening with seven captivating performances in an intimate setting. Afterwards you can join for a delicious dinner and afterparty at the restaurant. The...
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April 7: Benefit Concert featuring Ira Shore

Posted by on Feb 9, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments Carpet One Glenwood Springs presents renowned entertainer and extraordinary piano player Ira Shore, performing in Glenwood Springs on Sunday, April 7, at the Glenwood Springs High School Auditorium. All proceeds go to Literacy Outreach in Glenwood Springs.   Benefit Concert featuring Ira Shore // Sunday, April 7 at 7 pm // @Glenwood Springs High School Tickets: $15 – Available at...
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April 11-14: Bye Bye Birdie at Basalt High School

Posted by on Feb 9, 2013 in Archive | 0 comments Set in the late 1950’s, Bye Bye Birdie is the story of Conrad Birdie, the most successful rock and roll star of his age. Birdie’s agent and song-writer, Albert Peterson, works tirelessly to help and promote Conrad, while also attempting to save his love-life with Rosie, his dedicated secretary and long-time sweetheart. Conrad Birdie is about to be drafted into the army, leaving Albert without...
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Jan 10 – 13: The Drowsy Chaperone – Theatre Aspen School

Posted by on Dec 30, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments This hilarious Broadway musical comedy, winner of 5 Tony Awards – including Best Book and Best Original Score – is coming to Theatre Aspen School this winter! With witty dialog, outlandish characters and catchy music, The Drowsy Chaperone makes for an experience that leaves the audience in gales of laughter. What is it about? The “Man in a Chair”, a Broadway fanatic, sits...
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Jan 26: River North Dance Chicago

Posted by on Dec 30, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments A windy city original, River North Chicago Dance Company returns to Aspen this January. An electrifying fusion of modern, jazz, Latin and popular dance, River North’s tremendous popularity has catapulted them from a local Chicago dance “group” to the status of one of the country’s most dynamic, nationally recognized professional companies.   River North Dance Chicago / On...
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Jan 26: Dance for Kids by River North Dance Chicago

Posted by on Dec 30, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments Aspen Santa Fe Ballet brings River North Dance Chicago for its popular Dance for Kids presentation. Featuring kid-friendly selections from their expansive repertoire, kids of all ages will delight in the light-hearted and humorous movement showcased in this kid-friendly, hour-long matinee. ASFB’s Dance for Kids performances are the perfect way to introduce children to the magic of...
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Feb 16 + 17: Love, Loss and What I Wore, Encore Performances

Posted by on Dec 30, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments Proving that a great show is always in fashion, “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” with its compulsively entertaining subject matter, has become an international hit. This intimate collection of stories by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron is based on the best-selling book, as well as on the recollections of the Ephrons’ friends. Like the popular book, the show uses clothing and...
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Jan 27-29: Theater Masters’ National MFA Playwrights Festival 2013, “Take Ten”

Posted by on Dec 30, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments Join Theater Masters for an evening of 10-minute plays by MFA graduate playwriting students at CalArts, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, NYU, University of Iowa, University of Texas-Austin, UCLA, Yale and students at Glenwood Springs High School.   Take Ten // Theater Masters // Directed by Stephen Cedars, Shana Gozansky, and Nancy Robillard // January 27, 28, 29 // all shows at 7:30 pm //...
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Feb 15 – 23: Tongue of a Bird at CMC Theatre

Posted by on Dec 30, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments CMC Theatre presents Tongue of a Bird, by Ellen McLaughlin. Maxine, a search and rescue pilot, returns in midwinter to her childhood home in the Adirondacks. There she conducts a search for a girl who, while on a field trip in the mountains, was abducted by a stranger in a black pick up truck. The search lasts for three days. Each night Maxine must face the girl’s distraught mother, Dessa,...
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Feb 22 – Mar 9: Long Day´s Journey Into Night

Posted by on Dec 30, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments Long Day’s Journey into Night is a drama in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O’Neill. The action covers a fateful, heart-rending day from around 8:30 am to midnight, in August 1912 at the seaside Connecticut home of the Tyrones – the semi-autobiographical representations of O’Neill himself, his older brother, and their parents at their home, Monte Cristo...
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Nov 23 – Jan 1: Holiday 2012 Show, Glenwood Vaudeville Revue

Posted by on Nov 22, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments The Glenwood Vaudeville Revue is a two hour family fun show with professional talent performing a variety of hilarious skits, jokes, high energy dance numbers, unique novelty songs and original ideas that are guaranteed to make you laugh your worries away. All through December, the Glenwood Vaudeville Revue presents an all new Holiday Show.   Holiday 2012 Show // Glenwood Vaudeville Revue //...
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Aug 26: Benefit – A Gala Shakespeare Evening

Posted by on Aug 24, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments A GALA SHAKESPEARE EVENING, Sunday, August 26th. Hudson Reed Ensemble presents a PRE-SHOW TALK with Shakespearean scholars Ken and Carol Adelman, 5:00pm, followed by Shakespeare in the Park’s production of TWELFTH NIGHT, a rollicking comedy of mistaken identity and unrequited love, 5:30pm, Galena Outdoor Plaza (behind Pitkin County Library). A BENEFIT PARTY will be held at the...
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August 25: Dance for Kids!

Posted by on Aug 19, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments You and your family will love Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s special kids-length program featuring Jirí Kylián’s cantankerously funny Sechs Tanze and Cayetano Soto’s charming Kiss Me Goodnight. Kids of all ages will delight in the light-hearted and humorous movement showcased in this kid-friendly, hour-long matinee.   Aspen Santa Fe Ballet // @ Aspen District Theatre // Aug 25 // 4 pm The...
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August 25: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet – Program II

Posted by on Aug 19, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments Aspen Santa Fe Ballet closes the summer season with an entirely different second program featuring a collection of audience favorites: Uneven, by Cayetano Soto, Nicolo Fonte’s breathtaking In Hidden Seconds; and Jirí Kylián’s charming Sechs Tanze. The company that the Chicago Sun Times calls “simply breathtaking…” has been embraced by audiences in cities such as New York,...
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Sept 20-23: Bad Dates

Posted by on Aug 19, 2012 in Archive | 0 comments Bad dates make for great stories, and Haley has some that take the cake. This single mom reflects on them, sprinkled in with musings on the Romania mafia, a teenage daughter and shoes. Presented in association with Lake Dillon Theatre Company. This one-woman show stars Kelly Ketzenbarger.   CMC Theatre // Bad Dates // Written by Theresa Rebeck // with Kelly Ketzenbarger // Sept. 20, 21...
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