Author: Tracy Mobley-Martinez
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Chances are you know ‘The Women’
When Clare Boothe Luce wrote her hit Broadway play “The Women,” which opens tonight at the Fine Arts Center, it was hardly a woman’s world.There were amazing women in it, of course, including Luce herself, who started life as the daughter of a dancer, was understudy for Mary Pickford and became an editor at Vanity…
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Tonight: Lewis Black on the Springs, TV and the death of hope
He was almost exactly as I thought he’d be. Stand-up comedian Lewis Black, who plays the Pikes Peak Center on March 31, sounded just like himself — a jacked up Eeyore with a Yale degree and anger issues. He was dauntingly well-informed. And even in this 30-minute phone interview, he offered opinions on everything, including…
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Pioneers Museum plans for nonprofit future
Nearly a year after stark city budget cuts almost closed the 114-year-old Pioneers Museum, an ambitious new plan for keeping the doors open is now in motion. “There is certainly a philosophical obligation to the collection,” said director Matt Mayberry, who announced the details in a press conference Monday. The museum, which manages more than…
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SET set to tackle ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ in July
This has got to be one of the best — nah, the best — tease to a local theater event I’ve ever seen. Most are tied to early rehearsals that don’t give a fair picture of what the finished product will be. Here, the maker is well acquainted with the language of cinema, specifically of…
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The Gift of Art
These are the days of making lists. Pencil-scribbled lists. Blackberry lists. Mental lists that shift and re-form until you have all the names and gifts (and gifts and gifts) finally written down. Before you visit Amazon or circle the mall parking lot for the tenth time, think about gifts created by Colorado Springs artists, actors,…
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Central City Opera program to perform in Colorado Springs
So you missed the summer season at Central City Opera. On Nov. 6, the company is coming to the Colorado Springs Conservatory as part of ”Opera Rocks the Rockies,” a week-plus tour of the state. In its 13th year, they perform for more than 100 communities and about 100,000 people. The award-winning program features Bonfils-Station Foundation Artists Training…
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ROAD TRIP: Fill up on good food, fun, rest, shopping in Boulder
BOULDER • It may sound arrogant that this university town west of Denver has laid claim to both the Colorado Music Festival and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. But it turns out that each festival proves worthy of the name, making Boulder the state’s high-culture capital, at least for the season.Find out more details about those…
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Did I walk into the wrong theater?
I went to a nearly sold-out movie this weekend. Which was surprsing becuase it wasn’t the opening weekend and there was not a single explosion, car chase or shooting. It was “Julie & Julia,” which tells an interwoven tale of two women finding themselves: Julia Child, who brought French cooking to American housewives, and Julie Powell, a cublicle…
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Cottonwood move runs into snags
Like death and taxes, a recession spares no one. Not even arts non-profits with the best-laid plans: Earlier this year, the Cottonwood Artists’ School signed a contract and arranged financing to purchase a new building, only to find that a sure thing isn’t always so sure. “We were supposed to close on the building the…