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“Chicago” is a satire that is absolutely still relevant, says Mona Wood-Patterson. Co-founder of Merely Players, Wood-Patterson directs the company’s 2024 musical with one eye on a nearly 60-year-old ...

After growing up in a large city, Chicago, and graduating from college and teaching in a fair-sized western Michigan town, I moved to small-town Durango with more than a bit of trepidation. Now, when ...

Two telling contemporary plays happen to be running in Durango in February. One’s a comedy, spilling into satire; the other is a finely observed realistic drama simmering with humor and edginess. Grou...

As humans, we often communicate without the use of language. When was the last time you shared a wry look with your friend that no one else saw? Felt your shoulders slump at a disappointment you suffe...

Be prepared. A quiet moment of visual magic opens the Merely Players production of “The Tempest.” It is swiftly followed by surging seas, mighty winds, thunderclaps, lightning flashes and fearful huma...

From Humbucker pickups for professional heavy metal guitarists to watermelon-themed ukuleles for music-curious youngsters, Scheitel’s Music has just what you need.

Take a step, or a dancer, out of a New York immersive-theater company, and you’ll find Javon Jones, 25, performing a solo show for Merely Players starting Aug. 18. The Michigan-born, Durango-influence...

Every spring, Merely Players stages a musical, and this time, the Players will be taking audiences on an epic, sweeping take of love and redemption – and plenty of live bluegrass music – with “Bright ...

Merely Players is now selling tickets for its 2022-23 theater season. The show lineup includes: Shakespeare’s enchanting comedy, “As You Like It”; “The Half-Life of Marie Curie,” a historical drama; A...

Merely Players theater company finds home Durango, Colorado Currently Thu 4% chance of precipitation 43% chance of precipitation 65% chance of precipitation 1% chance of precipitation Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 6:24 PM Updated: Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 6:30 PM Marc Arbeeny, far left, Sarah Syverson, left, and Ian Thomas perform in the Merely Players production of “Metamorphoses.” Durango Herald file Merely Players theater company fi...