- The answer traces back to a hiking trip a local group took with members of the Arapaho Tribe in 1914.
- Local eateries are offering a wide range of exclusive options during the first Durango Restaurant Week.
- A new production of "The Color Purple" is aiming to bring actors and the audience closer to the source material and to each other.
- Rebecca Remaly and Stephen Weitz started the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, now the Butterfly Effect Theatre of Colorado, 17 years ago. The couple is handing off management of the company in the coming weeks to a new pair.
- Returning to live shows after pandemic restrictions is bringing the musicians back to the heart of their work – and back to Denver with a stop at the Paramount Theatre Thursday.
- The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble and the Colorado Symphony will perform together in a concert celebrating Parker Robinson’s 50-plus years as an arts leader.
- On May 30, 1954, Paul Taylor debuted his choreography in Manhattan with five dancers. That performance launched a body of work that continues to influence American modern dance today. Now, they're coming to DU's Newman Center.
- The new production features a cast reflecting many representations of race, gender, and ethnicity. That is to say, it’s not all white guys.
- This ain't your grandparents' string quartet.
- At the beginning of 2021, Paul Christiansen started making new music. The pandemic shutdowns gave him time to focus on his craft.
- Now in its 17th year, the Colorado New Play Summit is a working lab for playwrights to develop new work. ”The Whale,” by Samuel D.
- Officials say they will stage five shows instead of six to focus on the “physical and emotional well-being of all Arvada Center staff.”
- “This show hopefully creates an environment where people can see the Jewish people and the Ukraine struggle in a lens that is different than what they originally thought,” said Jonathan Hashmonay who plays Tevye in the show.
- One of the writers says the idea came from a frustration that there are so many female characters in Shakespeare's plays, living inside fascinating circumstances, who do not get the amount of text — or the stage time — the male characters do.
- Musician Paul Christiansen dreamt of working on his first album for almost a decade. The pandemic shutdown finally gave him the time to focus on making that dream a reality, but there was a catch: working with other musicians remotely. When he found a team in Ukraine, none of them could have imagined that a war would be just around the corner. He spoke with CPR arts and culture reporter Eden Lane, along with Anatoly Shmargun who runs a studio in Ukraine called Kaska Records.
- The pipa is a stringed Chinese instrument with about 2,000 years of history. A new composition in Greeley will feature it prominently.
