Indy Theatre Habit

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This coming weekend is your last chance to see “Cats” at Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre and your last chance to see “A Dark, Dark House” presented by the Heartland Actors’ Repertory Theatre at the Indy Fringe headquarters.  I saw the HART show last Friday and will blog about it soon.  It was not [...]

This is the fourth of four posts in a series about the third annual “Going Deep: Long Traditional Stories Retreat” held in Bethlehem, Indiana, on March 19-22, 2009.

This is the third of four posts in a series about the third annual “Going Deep: Long Traditional Stories Retreat” held in Bethlehem, Indiana, on March 19-22, 2009.

 
This is the second of four posts in a series about the third annual “Going Deep: Long Traditional Stories Retreat” held in Bethlehem, Indiana, on March 19-22, 2009.

This is the first in a series of four posts.
From late Thursday afternoon, March 19, 2009, to early Sunday afternoon, March 22, 2009, I attended the third annual “Going Deep: Long Traditional Stories Retreat” in Bethlehem, Indiana.  I got to hear:
** “The Story of the Grail” as told by Liz Warren
** “The Paths of Osun: the West [...]

Frantic update:  I can’t believe I almost forgot the first item that went into my “Mailbox Monday” file for this week:  Indianapolis-based professional actor Bill Simmons will head up to the Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, Michigan, later this spring to begin rehearsals for the world premiere of a play called “Wake,” by Carey Crim.  [...]

Last Saturday night I drove to the Marion College campus on the near northwest side of Indianapolis to see the Indianapolis Civic Theatre’s production of “West Side Story.” 
It is based on a conception of the original director/choreographer, Jerome Robbins, with book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and music by Leonard Bernstein.  Civic’s production [...]

Spring is in the air this week and so is Shakespeare.  Here is a press release I received from the IRT’s spring intern, Steven Eheart, about a special Shakespeare workshop coming up next Sunday:

Last Sunday evening, my friend Adrienne and I met at the Indiana Repertory Theatre to see “The Ladies’ Man,” a farce written by Georges Feydeau as “Taillieur Pour Dames” in 1886 and recently freely adapted by Charles Morey for American audiences.
At the end, Adrienne pronounced the show “delightful.”  I had a similar verdict:  “frothy and [...]

 
Last Saturday night, my friend David and I drove downtown to the Theatre on the Square to see “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead,” written by Bert V. Royal and directed by Ron Spencer.