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PHOTOS: Last Week in Idyllwild …
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Eduardo Santiago brought an impressive cadre of Los Angeles authors to Idyllwild to inaugurate his first Idyllwild Authors Series. Santiago’s success caused regulars at the series to ask Santiago, himself an author, to speak.
“Lovers and Other Strangers” is the annual Memorial Day theater production to support the Idyllwild HELP Center. The play, by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna, will be presented daily from Friday, May 27, to Monday, May 30, at Town Hall. The popular play debuted in September 1968 and was a 1970 film, for which the…
Actor and playwright Christopher Durang writes comedy — satire, dark comedy, parody and absurdist. The Idyllwild Actors Theatre next presents a full stage, al fresco celebration of 12 of Durang’s shorter pieces, called “Durang Durang, a Blissfully Silly Collection of Plays.” Durang’s play titles often capture his particular fascination with the gothic and goofy, the…
Gene Thorpe (right), the beneficiary of Saturday’s Jam Benefit, joins John King (left) and Paul Carman on stage to rock the audience …
In the higher regions of Idyllwild and Pine Cove, a light dusting of snow still covers the ground just days before Christmas – an unexpected present following last Friday’s heavy rainfall. As it does especially in the cool winter air, the mountain sparkles with sunlight dappling its pines during brilliantly clear days and smoke from…