Editor’s note: This is taken from an Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) press release. “Gavroche,” the new musical the Idyllwild Arts Theatre Department will perform to the public 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, is a fresh take on “Les Misérables.” The musical, to be livestreamed at https://idyllwildarts.zoom.us/j/95125102317, features a pop, contemporary score, and is told from…
David JeromeCorrespondent Idyllwild Arts Academy presented its annual themed exhibition Friday, Nov. 12. The third of the year’s eight planned art exhibitions, it is always the most popular with students. The students as a group decide upon a theme and collaborate in writing a statement. Only then can the individual artists begin work. All students…
Editor’s note: This is taken from a press release. Stratford Players, now in its 10th year entertaining Idyllwild, kicks off the holiday season with mystery and merriment. The theater troupe will perform “The Game’s Afoot or Holmes for the Holidays,” winner of the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award for Best Play. After a long…
David JeromeCorrespondent Donal Brophy and Emrhys Cooper are both actors, writers and directors, who in the last year have moved to Idyllwild and produced an award-winning comedy, “The Shuroo Process.” The two principals of Idyllwild Pictures both have credits and resumes too extensive for this brief bit, as do all the members of the production…
Editor’s note: This was taken from an Idyllwild Arts press release. Every year the Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) Fall Dance Concert showcases the brilliance of the student dancers and the choreography of their teachers. This year’s concert, which will be livestreamed at https://idyllwildarts.zoom.us/j/96600778598 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Nov. 18 and 19, and at…
David JeromeCorrespondent “The Birds” are coming to the Rustic Theatre, in time for Halloween. Idyllwild Actors Theatre President and Founder Suzanne Avalon promises a “really fun, scary experience” when the group presents a stage adaptation of Daphne de Maurier’s famous tale of birds gone bad and the people they try to murder. Since its inception…
By David JeromeCorrespondent Marisa Quintanilla has lived in Idyllwild for about 2 1/2 years. Her business here, Wildland Organics, is about to celebrate its anniversary Oct. 31. An active vocalist, photographer and visual artist, she is best known as an actor. Her role as “Huilen” in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2” embedded her…
“The Idyllwild Area Historical Society and museum used to have a beautiful, old, but healthy large pine tree in front of our garden facing North Circle Drive,” wrote IAHS Vice President Marlene Pierce. “However, several months ago, a Southern California Edison crew topped the tree, leaving a huge pine trunk.” One IAHS board member stepped…
Christian Chalifour is bringing Too Much Fun in the Pines, a concert to benefit Spirit Mountain Retreat, to the retreat at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, in the retreat’s garden at 25661 Oakwood Street. It will run just under two hours with a short intermission for purchasing snacks. The concert features John Walz, Los Angeles…
Do It Records/Sony will release Darien Martus of Idyllwild’s rock epic poem “Rockaxeon” Friday, Oct. 1. It will be available on all streaming platforms. Martus said, “A whole new experience in rock recording, Rockaxeon is a 70-minute rock epic poem, spanning the life of our solar system. The poem centers around an ancient stone ax,…
