Indy Theatre Habit

Due to a debillitating cold, I missed NewKey’s production of “Greater Tuna.”  It was the first show at the Indy Fringe Festival’s new space.  Drat!  Now I’m more-or-less healthy again, but due to lack of time, I still won’t be able to see everything I want to see in what’s left of 2008.   Here [...]

 
I am thankful for many reasons on this Thanksgiving Day.  One of the many reasons is that this blog is now a big part of my life.  I have managed to keep it going for almost a year now.  According to my web hosting provider, my blog had 4688 unique visitors and 91,979 hits last [...]

I’ve been updating my syllabus for the graduate-level class on storytelling that I will teach for the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) on the Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus next semester. 
I am excited because five students have already signed up.  I’m sure the university would like there to be more than five students [...]

I mentioned a few days ago that James Still, playwright-in-residence for the Indiana Reportory Theatre, is working on a new play about Abraham Lincoln.  It will premiere at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., with David Selby as Lincoln.
There was an article about the debut in today’s New York Times:
NYTIMES
Arts, Briefly
Ford’s Theater Returns
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: November 23, 2008
Ford’s [...]

On Saturday night I drove west of Indianapolis to Danville to meet my friend, actor Jack Gramling, for a two-part concert to benefit the Danville High School band department.  The concert was called “Holiday Melodies.”  I suppose that it does not, technically, fit the scope of this blog, but I want to write about it here [...]

On Thursday night I drove to the Arthur M. Glick Jewish Community Center to hear three professional storytellers present “More Alike Than Not: Stories of Three Americans – Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim.”
This program was the result of a wonderful collaboration.  It was presented by the Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, the Jewish Community Center, the Muslim Re-entry [...]

I have been at the Indiana Library Federation’s annual conference in downtown Indy for the past three days.  It has been invigorating for my day job, but it has also given me good food for thought for this, my blog-job.
For example, one of the sessions was called “The Fine Art of Booking and Tending to [...]

My first “Conversation with…” on this blog was with James Still back in May.  He is the playwright-in-residence for the Indiana Repertory Theatre.  In the months since our original conversation, we have kept in touch.  He continually inspires me, and I treasure the encouragement he has given me for my “Of the People: Stories and [...]

The 2009 Indy Fringe Festival will take place August 21-30, 2009.  Applications for performance groups are now available on the Indy Fringe website (www.indyfringe.org).  The number of show slots is limited, so if you have been thinking of applying, get busy.  The slots fill up quickly!
2009 will be the fifth Indy Fringe Festival.  It will be my [...]

Last Sunday afternoon I parked in the Sun garage and took the escalator up to the fourth floor of the Circle Centre Mall to see “Lysistrata,” written by Aristophanes and adapted by David Orr and director Bonnie Mill.  This was the first production of the new, professional, Sapphire Theatre Company.  You may remember that I [...]