Events

A performance of The Glass Menagerie, written by Tenessee Williams . The play was performed by a local cast and directed by Dr. Cecilia Thompson.

Project Big Top hosted six local bands from the tri-county area to benefit the Fort Davis Humane Society and the organization’s poetry scholarship.

Presenters read original and published selections and staged readings from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.

Ballroom Marfa presented an evening with contrabass soloist and composer, Stefano Scondanibbio.

The Laramie Project, written by Moises Kaufman, was created after a year-long series of interviews in Laramie, Wyoming about the murder of Matthew Shepard. The play was directed by James Scott and produced by Dawn Trook.

A community-wide talent show of all ages, featuring acts from across the tri-county region. Pachanga featured animal acts, barbershop quartets, singers and dancers. Prizes were awarded by local celebrity judges.

A program from Marfa Live Arts that involved several different projects and productions.

Filmmaker John Waters became famous as “the Pope of Trash” (William Burroughs) and the “King of suburban exploitation”. His films include Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Serial Mom, Pecker and Cecil B. Demented. He is also the author of Shock Value, Crackpot, Trash Trio, Director’s Cut and Art: A Sex Book.

Artist Ken Price gave a talk accompanying the opening of the exhibition Ken Price: Sculpture and Drawings 1994-2004, at the Chinati Foundation.

A community-wide talent show of all ages, featuring acts from across the tri-county region. Pachanga featured animal acts, barbershop quartets, singers and dancers. Prizes were awarded by local celebrity judges.

Edge was written and directed by biographer Paul Alexander. Angelica Torn, the daughter of actor Rip Torn, starred as Sylvia Plath.

Don Howard and Ballroom Marfa hosted a film series highlighting critical aspects of documentary filmmaking.

In this lecture, Marianne Stockebrand discussed her essay The Making of Two Works: Donald Judd’s Installations at the Chinati Foundation. The first lecture of the series was given at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London in February 2004. The lecture was the first time that the Chinati collection, Donald Judd and his process had been […]

Marfa participants wrote, directed, rehearsed and performed approximately eight one-act plays in twenty-four hours.

A theater camp for local children.