88 stories from Aspen Times
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…
ASPEN - Fifteen-year-old Remy Lamping, daughter of Aspenites Dawn and Richard Lamping, is participating in the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy's summer training program in Moscow.The prog…
ASPEN - Aspen Santa Fe Ballet has developed a reputation, over its 15 years, for locating fresh choreographers on their way up, and then maintaining those relationships as the choreographers…
ASPEN - As staged by Theatre Aspen, "Vices: A Love Story" is a technical achievement worth considering. Between two ballet dancers, four singers, a live rock quartet onstage, screen projecti…
ASPEN - If there was any doubt that Ed and Julia Foran were cut from the same cloth, their reaction to the news that 13-year-old Julia was being cast as Annie in this summer's Theatre Aspen …
ASPEN - Jorma Elo confesses that he doesn't especially enjoy sitting in a theater, watching a dance performance. In particular, what he doesn't like watching are the dances he has created: "…
ASPEN - While Theatre Aspen's venue renovation includes a new tent and more backstage space (both completed), and a new lobby and grounds (both in the works), left out of the plans was an ex…
ASPEN - Sandy Duncan knows what it's like to be stuck in a crummy show, in a nothing theater, surrounded by the sense of failure. In 1969, Duncan co-starred in a two-person play, "Love Is a …
ASPEN - I remember an observation made by my old friend Hal K.: "You know how you put on a brand-new pair of socks, and you feel like Superman?" I knew exactly what he meant: a fresh pair of…
ASPEN - Appropriately for an art form that is loose, anti-establishment and always in flux, there is no perfect agreement on just what defines a fringe festival. There are fringe festivals w…
ASPEN - Theatre Aspen's new tent is sturdier, cleaner, more beautifully landscaped, better integrated into the park and river surroundings - and no bigger than the old tent, at least not in …
CARBONDALE - Over his 51 years, Josh Behrman has gotten to know music venues. There was the Long Island club of his childhood, My Father's Place, where he developed his tastes by seeing repe…
ASPEN - When Adrianna Thompson was in Long Beach State's dance program, she became accustomed to the intensely rigorous routine that aspiring dancers put themselves through. It was three bal…
