Indy Theatre Habit

This past weekend was crazy-busy(!) but deeply satisfying.  I judged two Encore shows but also heard and saw a wealth of creativity and talent that I am allowed to write about.  Coming soon:

Five more posts about the Hoosier Storytelling Festival.
A post about the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra as a venue and about its production of “Guys […]

The Hoosier Storytelling Festival is this week!
Last night, I drove downtown to the Eiteljorg Museum to hear Native American storyteller Gene Tagaban.  I was supposed to have been his driver this whole week as he and the other featured tellers shared stories with crowds of school children in the huge Festival tents in Military Park, […]

Last Sunday morning I drove west for over an hour to reach the Myers Dinner Theatre in Hillsboro, Indiana, which is just this side of the border between Indiana and Illinois.
This semi-community, semi-for-profit theatre has intrigued me ever since one of its regular artists, Linnea Leatherman, told me that she commutes there every weekend from […]

Last Saturday night I picked up my friend and sister storyteller, Sandra Harris.  We drove over to the Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre to see “The Sound of Music.”  (Music by Richard Rogers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, suggested by The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.)
I love […]

I am working on my reviews of the two non-Encore shows that I saw this weekend: “The Sound of Music” at the Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre and “South Pacific” at the Myers Dinner Theatre.  It takes me a minimum of four hours to write each review, and I try to write my reviews in […]

I have heard from several sources that the Phoenix Theatre has decided to extend its run of David Mamet’s “November.”  My friend Chris and I saw this show opening weekend and loved it.   Apparently, we were not the only ones.
According to the press release that Phoenix Managing Director Sharon Gamble sent me yesterday, “…audiences have […]

 
On September 1, 2008, I officially began my year as a judge for the Encore Association.  Before that, in August, I attended a new judges’ orientation session.  I am not allowed to talk or write about any of the shows that I see for Encore, but I am allowed to write about the judging procedure […]