Author: Jennie Franks

SPARKy Productions & The Palm Present a National Theatre of Great Britain screening of “Jane Eyre.” Event is Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, 5:30 p.m., Telluride’s Michael D. Palm Theatre. Tickets, $15; $10 Student. At the door.         Almost 170 years on, Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing...

This year, the Telluride Playwrights Festival has upped its game by inviting acting, directing, and playwright members of the innovative Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company to come and use Telluride as a theatrical testing stage for groundbreaking new work. The relationship is a win win: this major company gets...

SPARKy Productions kicks off the summer with an NT LIVE simulcast on Tuesday, June 24, 7 p.m. at The Michael D. Palm Theatre. The production is Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy "A Small Family Business." This is a pre-recording of a play performed by The National Theatre of...

"Coriolanus" at the Palm Theatre on Tuesday,March 4,  7 p.m. SPARKy Members are free. $15 for adults. $10 for students. SPARKy Productions brings live theatre to town through the Telluride Playwrights Festival in July – and also through a live simulcast of the best of the National...

[caption id="attachment_32890" align="alignright" width="300"] Dan Castellaneta, playwright & voice of Homer Simpson, in town for Telluride Playwrights Fest[/caption] SPARKy Productions is proud to present the annual Telluride Playwrights Festival, which takes place this heart from Tuesday, July 23 – Sunday, July 28. The 2013 event includes...

  [caption id="attachment_31277" align="alignright" width="300"] Dan Castellenata, in town for the Telluride Playwrights Festival[/caption] Sparky Productions' summer programming begins Tuesday, June 11, at the Palm Theatre, where SPARKy presents "This House" by James Graham. The is a live simulcast of a National Theatre of Great Britain’s theatrical...

Kathleen Kennedy, producer of "Lincoln," at special Sparky screening of film for Q & A To date, "Lincoln" has been nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture, four Screen Actors Guild nominations, including Best Ensemble, and 13 Critics' Choice nominations for Best Picture, more...

Last April I visited Moscow as part of an American theatre group, attending the Russian Case Theatre festival. All the talk was of the public protests in November, where a few thousand brave people marched in the freezing cold, against the repressive Putin regime. Now spring...

Editor's note: As our dear friend Jennie Franks so eloquently points out, Sharon Shuteran moved through our world – the world – with a loose-limbed elegance, embodying as she did, the very essence of the yoga principles of sthira/sukha: alertness without effort; relaxed without dullness....

Editor's Note: For the past two days, Jennie Franks of the Telluride Playwrights Festival, this year,  July 9 – July 15, has blogged about her spring trip to Russia. This is the final installment of her "Theatre Tales," but stay tuned to Telluride Inside...