Friday, June 22, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMASPEN - 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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMFriday, June 1, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMSaturday, May 12, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMFriday, February 24, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 02:05AMThursday, February 23, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 02:05AMWednesday, February 22, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 01:03AMFriday, January 20, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 02:05AMTuesday, January 10, 2012
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. …
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 01:38AMWednesday, December 21, 2011
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.…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 02:05AMASPEN - 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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 02:05AMSaturday, December 17, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 02:05AMThursday, December 8, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 02:05AMFriday, December 2, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 10:47AMASPEN - 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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 05:02AMThursday, December 1, 2011
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 …
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 02:05AMFriday, November 4, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMThursday, November 3, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 01:30AMFriday, September 30, 2011
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 …
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMSunday, August 21, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 09:09AMSunday, August 7, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 01:53AMFriday, August 5, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMFriday, July 22, 2011
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: "…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMMonday, July 11, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 02:29AMSunday, July 3, 2011
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 …
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMFriday, July 1, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMFriday, June 10, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:52AMSunday, June 5, 2011
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 …
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMFriday, May 27, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMSunday, May 8, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AM 
