Indy Theatre Habit

  On Saturday, January 10, 2009, I drove downtown to the Indiana History Center to hear storyteller Motoko share “Stories of Now and Zen.”  The program was presented by Storytelling Arts of Indiana as part of the Barnes & Thornburg Storytellers Theater presenting the Creative Street Media Group Storytelling Series.  This particular event was sponsored [...]

I have now been to two “editions” of the Three Dollar Bill Comedy Company’s “Fiddle Shticks” show at Comedy Sportz.  The first was on Friday, January 9, 2009.  The second was the following Friday, January 16, 2009.  The show is every Friday night at 10 pm for six weeks (through February 13, 2009.)  Each week, [...]

  Nick Hornby calls the Alex Award the “not boring” book award.  It is given to ten good books that were published in the previous year for adults but which have special appeal to teen readers as well.  If you could take only ten new books with you for recreational reading on a deserted island, [...]

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  For the next several days I will be at the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in Denver, Colorado.  I am a member of the Alex Award committee, which recognizes ten books that were published for adults in the past year but which have special appeal to teen readers as well.  We have been reading [...]

  If you have been reading my blog all along, you know that for the past six months I have been working on a commission from the Indiana Historical Society and Storytelling Arts of Indiana.  It is part of their “Sharing Hoosier History through Stories” collaboration. Well, yesterday (Sunday), I premiered it! I learned a [...]

“Of the People: Stories and Images of Abraham Lincoln,” by Hope Baugh (that’s me!), premieres this Sunday, January 18, 2009 from 4:00-6:00 pm at the Indiana History Center (not to be confused with the Indiana State Museum.)  This program is part of the Sharing Hoosier History through Stories collaboration between the Indiana Historical Society and [...]

Last Thursday my friend Adrienne and I met at the Phoenix Theatre downtown for the opening night of “Love Person,” by Aditi Brennan Kapil.  It is presented here in Indianapolis as a National New Play Network rolling world premiere, shared with the Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis and the Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, [...]

This past weekend I indulged my theatre habit in a way I haven’t since before I started this blog.  I saw one show twice and another show thrice. I won’t have time to write a review of “Edges,” but I enjoyed all three performances that I saw of it, especially since co-workers from my day [...]

Last night I drove downtown to see “A Night in Vegas” at the Theatre on the Square’s second stage.  I enjoyed this funny show about gay relationships and will post a detailed review of it in the next day or so. In the meantime, I’d like to write about a couple of casual conversations that I [...]