Director Gary Marshall is directing the play “Billy & Ray,” about the making of the classic film “Double Indemnity,” at the Vineyard Theatre in New York.Associated Press photo/Mark Kennedy “Come…
Associated Press photo/Bebeto Matthews<br><br>Author Walter Isaacson offers a history of the digital age in his new book, The Innovators.” Mention the second half of 1969 and he won’t talk about…
Steve Ellison, who performs as Flying Lotus, reached out to jazz musicians to collaborate on his new album, “You’re Dead!”Timothy Saccenti for the Washington Post “You’re Dead!” is a refreshing…
Alex Viorst inspired the children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, written by his mother, Judith Viorst.Washington Post photo by Linda Davidson The real Alexander…
Thirty-two-page children’s books with 18-syllable titles that are basically about one thing aren’t the easiest properties to adapt into feature-length scripts, which may be why it took 42 years for…
David Dobkin’s film doesn’t leave a melodramatic stone unturned, adding to its courtroom drama a sentimental tsunami of story lines: a mother’s funeral, a father-son reckoning, a fight with cancer,…
It’s a question that’s answered in “One Chance,” an amiably crowd-pleasing dramatization of Potts’ rocky road to fame and fortune that’s made more engaging than similar fact-based fairy tales by…
For a tantalizing half hour or so, it actually seemed like the underlying idea of “Dracula Untold” – an origin story drawing its DNA from superhero flicks, not monster movies…
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Once Chance The remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by…
New York City playwright Peter Gil-Sheridan will teach a playwriting workshop from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave. Students will learn…
“Fresh,” a site-specific installation of red organza, pins and thread, is part of Jennifer Ghormley’s new show, “Exploring the Terrain.” The exhibit, inspired by the endless terrain of the human…
Durango Heritage Celebration, in various locations, featuring a downtown promenade, masquerade ball, dinner theater, walking tours and more, www.durangoheritage.org. Four Corners Storytelling Festival, with Daniel Keding, Alton Chung, Evelyn Roper…
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The Potomac Atrium provides a dramatic introduction to the National Museum of the American Indian, but its effect is diminished for the many visitors who don’t use the building’s main…
Photo by Dan Hallman/Invision/AP<br><br>Actor Miles Teller stars in “Whiplash,” an acclaimed indie about an aspiring jazz drummer and his drill sergeant instructor. In “Whiplash” (out Friday), he plays an aspiring…
Patrick Modiano of France has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature. The news was announced Thursday.Associated Press photo/Catherine Helie, Gallimard Modiano, a 69-year-old resident of Paris, is an acclaimed…
Christine McVie, from left, John McVie and Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac perform at Madison Square Garden on Monday.Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP The members of Fleetwood Mac each took a…
This sacred autumnal drama, repeated nearly every September or October for over 50 years, has become our collectively-acknowledged paradigm for the uneasy tension between trust and betrayal, hope and despair.…
In this Oct. 11, 2012, file photo, Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy, arrives to announce the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, in Stockholm. This…
The Center of Southwest Studies will continue its 50th anniversary celebration this week with the art exhibit “Masterpieces of the Durango Collection: Native Blankets from the Early American Southwest.” The…
Actor Robert Downey Jr., seen here with his wife producer Susan Downey, stars in the legal drama “The Judge.”Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file That didn’t stop the “The Avengers” leading…
A Demon Summer, by G.M. Malliet, is a wry and clever village mystery.AP Photo/Minotaur G.M. Malliet continues to update the traditional British village mystery in her highly entertaining A Demon…
The Treasure of Harageh collection consists of 37 items such as flasks, vases and jewelry inlaid with lapis lazuli, a rare mineral. Discovered by famed British archaeologist Sir William Matthew…
