Indy Theatre Habit

I am DELIGHTED and honored that some of this year’s Fringe performers have started emailing me their press releases and publicity photos directly.  I am going to share them here on Indy Theatre Habit as a way of anticipating the 2009 Indy Fringe Festival, which will take place August 21-30 in various locations on and [...]

Guess what?  I am going to be one of three judges for a new liar’s contest at the Indiana State Fair on Sunday, August 16, 2009!  The other two judges will be two of my favorite sister storytellers, Sue Grizzell and Celestine Bloomfield.  There will be cash prizes! So what do you say?  ‘Know any good [...]

I have several local news items burning a hole in my mailbox, but before I do anything else I would like to record a little of what it was like to meet Gregory Maguire a couple of weeks ago in Chicago. It was wicked. (‘Sorry.  ‘Couldn’t resist.)

I judged an Encore show last Friday night but, as usual, I am not allowed to tell you about it.  I have five more Encore shows to judge.  I can hardly believe my year as a busy-but-silent Encore judge is almost over! A new show opened at Theatre on the Square this weekend and the [...]

Last Thursday, still semi-exhausted from a long business trip for my day job, I looked at my calendar and thought, “Yikes!  A Midwest premiere is opening at the Phoenix tonight!”  I fired off a frantic e-request for a media pass and drove downtown.  I regret not asking one of my usual theatre buddies to go [...]

I am back from my blog vacation.  Did you miss me?  I am working on a review of the Midwest premiere of “The Do’s and Don’ts of Time Travel,” a play by Nicholas Wardigo that opened this weekend at the Phoenix Theatre.  Short version: It is a beautiful, sexy, thought-provoking science fiction piece that is [...]

I will be on a blog vacation from now until July 19, 2009.  I hope you won’t forget about Indy Theatre Habit during that time.  More importantly, I hope you won’t forget about going to the theatre!   There is a lot going on in terms of live storytelling and theatre in the Indianapolis area in the [...]

I wasn’t going to write about my fourth viewing of “Octopus” at the Phoenix Theatre, but then “Debby” (I know her full name but she does not review frequently so I am not sure she wants her full name to be public) wrote about her first viewing of it on Indiana Auditions, and I couldn’t [...]

Yes!  Remember how I said a few days ago that I had some other playwright news that I was waiting to confirm before I shared it with you?  I have been too busy even to make a phone call, but today I happened to receive confirmation of one those bits via a press release that [...]