Performing Arts https://www.the-journal.com/feeds/performing-arts/ 2026-05-26 02:39:44 -0700 en-us https://www.the-journal.com/articles/durango-high-school-troupe-1096-gets-ready-to-ride-the-cyclone/ If you had to, could you make a case for your life? That’s what six high school students stuck in limbo after dying in a roller coaster accident are faced with in “Ride the Cyclone: Teen Edition.” The... 2026-04-23 04:07:38 -0700 e42ce64e-9ac0-4f1d-8ab4-91fa462f38b6 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/dhs-troupe-1096-to-stage-the-laramie-project-ten-years-later/ When the student actors of Durango High School Troupe 1096 take the stage next week to perform “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later,” they’ll not only be performing their roles, they’ll be portraying... 2026-02-19 04:47:42 -0700 64fc4fb4-8279-4459-be02-ba82c6c5ebdd https://www.the-journal.com/articles/merely-players-illuminates-silent-sky/ “Silent Sky,” Lauren Gunderson’s remarkably human play about the hard science of astronomy, brims with emotion. Currently staged all over the country and now by Merely Players through Sunday, the loca... 2026-02-19 12:00:14 -0700 70f612b4-1841-4a8d-9982-1cf4f0eaf138 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/san-juan-circus-going-to-great-heights/ If we’ve learned anything from movies and other forms of pop culture, it’s generally not a good idea when one finds a book of spells to read the contents aloud. WHAT: San Juan Circus presents “A B... 2025-10-23 03:15:43 -0700 ef744eb5-4cb9-411f-9c15-bce00c8637f9 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/paula-poundstone-hopefully-my-show-is-an-animated-spaceship/ The last time comedian Paula Poundstone performed in Durango, the world was still coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic and all that it had wrought. We were all still trying to figure out what the world... 2025-09-25 05:44:56 -0700 49fceab9-38f8-478c-ae26-6ace13c10622 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/immerse-yourself-with-secret-circus-society/ Starting Tuesday and running monthly through the end of September, the stage at Animas City Theatre will be transformed into a space filled with circus acts intended to take audiences on a journey to ... 2025-07-17 04:00:00 -0700 9e475b9d-0ecb-4156-af88-ac0ef5f48afe https://www.the-journal.com/articles/a-one-man-show-happened-on-the-way-to-chicago/ When people pick up and move, generally there’s a U-Haul involved and stops along the way include gas, bathroom breaks, food and maybe a hotel for the night. For actor, writer and musician Riley Samue... 2025-04-24 05:40:02 -0700 23f66813-e761-4690-abf9-a5bea4fca4ae https://www.the-journal.com/articles/illusionist-leon-etienne-brings-magic-to-community-concert-hall/ We don’t know about the rest of you, but when we were grounded as a preteen, all we did while being locked in solitary was stare at ourselves in the mirror and dream of the day we’d get to move out. B... 2025-04-17 03:37:07 -0700 dd8d735e-86c2-41e5-9724-2007f792ad20 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/20-moons-explores-unsettling-contemporary-themes/ In an era of political and social uncertainty, the bravest in the local creative community consider difficult themes like chaos and uncertainty. 20 Moons, our resident modern dance company, will do ju... 2025-04-02 12:50:58 -0700 0284cc0d-02af-485e-a49b-3fd723b33a7f https://www.the-journal.com/articles/review-new-wine-in-old-bottles/ Last weekend, Durango audiences were invited to two sparkling performances, hence the title: new wine in old bottles. San Juan Symphony presented its third concert of the 39th season in Durango and Fa... 2025-02-27 11:00:00 -0700 a898c114-abbd-4760-b2c5-94a7311ff728 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/creede-rep-opens-59th-season-with-classic-comedies/ Creede Repertory Theatre will launch its 59th season over the weekend with three winning shows. If you like comedy in all its forms – farce, satire, parody and the mother of them all, a crackling come... 2024-06-26 01:46:20 -0700 85d5cf4c-5ca1-40c5-8a94-f92a71c04257 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/time-to-cowboy-up/ Polish up those boots and brush off those hats, cowpokes and city slickers, for it is time. Beginning Thursday (Sept. 28) and running through next weekend, the annual Durango Cowboy Gathering will tak... 2023-09-21 06:19:05 -0700 3c8d4f14-23a1-4f57-92c6-92105506e86f https://www.the-journal.com/articles/creede-repertory-theatre-opens-58th-season-and-celebrates-the-well-made-play/ Creede Repertory Theatre has opened its 58th season with a stirring new play, “Mountain Octopus,” by Beth Kander. Worthy of praise for both its content and this production, the work surfaced from the ... 2023-06-02 10:59:29 -0700 673c5171-eeb9-46ce-b676-7a22e8fe7de8 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/straight-out-of-covid-and-genesis/ Straight out of COVID-19, Jason Lythgoe will rise to the occasion and perform the title role of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” on Saturday at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis C... 2022-06-02 06:26:28 -0700 4a121aef-740a-4c97-ab66-bcbd47debdc0 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/program-aims-to-prepare-actors-for-theater-productions/ FARMINGTON (AP) – Randy West has implemented an ambitious series of changes since taking over as supervisor of the Farmington Civic Center in summer 2019, namely the booking of dozens of musical, thea... 2022-02-26 10:28:11 -0700 abf79797-adf4-5110-9fcd-5a854c023fb5 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/fort-lewis-stages-native-american-plays/ When Fort Lewis College senior Tyler Gleason (Diné) played Rookie Carroca, an effusive Italian-American father in “My Favorite Year,” he seemed right at home. Naturally ebullient, Gleason bubbles over... 2021-10-15 12:25:00 -0700 58507665-bf5c-4325-b040-767d36b0e0f4