ASPEN - Toward the end of Theatre Aspen's opening-night performance of "The 39 Steps," the sound of a dog barking could be heard from just offstage. There was no dog onstage at the time, nor…
ASPEN - When the Aspen Music Festival announced the theme for its current summer season, "Made in America," Ed Berkeley might have had reason to fear. Berkeley is the director of the Music F…
ASPEN - When the Aspen Music Festival announced the theme for its current summer season, "Made in America," Ed Berkeley might have had reason to fear. Berkeley is the director of the Music F…
ASPEN - Mark Martino used to watch his Italian-born grandfather listen to opera on the hi-fi, so moved by what he heard that he would cry. Martino got some of the old man's appreciation for …
ASPEN - Mark Martino used to watch his Italian-born grandfather listen to opera on the hi-fi, so moved by what he heard that he would cry. Martino got some of the old man's appreciation for …
ASPEN - Why do artists tend to struggle in disproportionate numbers with addiction and madness? Is it that the brain chemistry that lavishes creativity also plagues a mind with destructive t…
ASPEN - Why do artists tend to struggle in disproportionate numbers with addiction and madness? Is it that the brain chemistry that lavishes creativity also plagues a mind with destructive t…
ASPEN - Naomi McDougall Jones' mother, Claire McDougall, is a writer; her first novel is set to be published next year. Jones' father, Paul, plays a bit of violin. But Jones gives a knowing …
ASPEN - When Cassie Lewis, an Aspen High School senior who has been studying at the School of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet since she was 4, began working on an original dance with Craig Black, a me…
ASPEN - Before he turned 10, David Brenner took a job as a stockboy in the working-class Philadelphia neighborhood where he lived. Brenner took the job seriously - showed up on time, worked …
ASPEN - Several years ago, Tom Simmons spotted, in his brother-in-law's car, a copy of the book "Secrets of the Federal Reserve." Simmons was instantly hooked on the subject and has spent mu…
ASPEN - Bobcat Goldthwait has been working on a screenplay about Bigfoot for several years. Recently he ran a bit of the script by his wife to see if she thought there was any danger of offe…
ASPEN - In the corner of northern Connecticut where he lives, Moses Pendleton isn't known as the founder of the inventive dance theater troupe MOMIX, or as a founding member of the groundbre…
ASPEN - Upon entering Assemble Dancewear in Castle Rock, proprietor Noel Amend noted that my 12-year-old ballerina, Olivia, had arrived with her hair in a meticulous bun. "Bun?" I wondered. …
Playing Lily St. Regis in Theatre Aspen's current production of the musical "Annie," Aileen Quinn feels a bit out of character. "I'm usually the heroine, making the good moral choices. And t…
ASPEN - Playing Lily St. Regis in Theatre Aspen's current production of the musical "Annie," Aileen Quinn feels a bit out of character. "I'm usually the heroine, making the good moral choice…
ASPEN - Among the qualities that Norbert De La Cruz III cares to bring to the dance stage, along with musicality and partnering technique, is humility. So when De La Cruz, a 23-year-old from…
When you casually mention that you've dwelled in the House of the Lord - and we're not talking about regular attendance at a church where people gather on Sunday mornings to pray, or a metap…
Earlier this year, the Theatre Aspen School's Winter Teen Conservatory performed "The Curious Savage," a straight play from the 1950s involving stepchildren, an inheritance, an asylum. Which…
ASPEN - Earlier this year, the Theatre Aspen School's Winter Teen Conservatory performed "The Curious Savage," a straight play from the 1950s involving stepchildren, an inheritance, an asylu…
CARBONDALE - Jayne Gottlieb was all set for the winter performance by her Jayne Gottlieb Productions, just about to begin auditions for "Grease," the enduringly popular and humorous look at …
ASPEN - When Stacia Bolitho was thinking of moving to the Roaring Fork Valley area, no doubt she ran down the standard checklist of things a young wife considers when relocating: jobs, housi…
ASPEN - Aspen Community Theatre has plenty of institutional history behind it, with 36 years of performances. That sense of history is very much present in the organization, when you conside…
CARBONDALE - It's two days before Lee Sullivan is about to appear in one of his biggest roles, yet Sullivan, an Aspenite who has become prominent in the valley's theater world over the last …
ASPEN - Last summer, at a cast party for the members of the local Hudson Reed Ensemble who had just put on a production of Shakespeare's "Richard III," Kent Reed, the company's director, ide…