Indy Theatre Habit

On Sunday afternoon I drove north of Indianapolis to Noblesville, Indiana to see “The Producers” at an all-volunteer community theatre called the Belfry.  The theatre building is a renovated church that still has its bell.  Every time a performance begins, one of the crew rings the bell up in the little tower as the curtain [...]

Yesterday evening I drove north to Eagletown, Indiana to see the opening night of “Lafferty’s Wake” as presented by the all-volunteer Main Street Productions of Westfield, Inc. at the Westfield Playhouse.
The show was written in 1997 by Susan Turlish for the Society Hill Playhouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where it ran for six years (six years!) after opening [...]

Tonight (Sunday night) I went to a staged reading of a new re-write of a play by Lou Harry called “The Pied Piper of Hoboken.”  Afterwards I made a little video with the playwright, which you can see above.  In the video, Lou talks about the path the play took before it reached this point in [...]

Last night I drove to the near north side of Indianapolis to see Footlite Musicals’ production of “My Fair Lady.”  It was directed by R. Brian Noffke, produced by Debbie Noffke, and vocal directed by John Sparkman.
Footlite is an all-volunteer community theatre and a member of the Encore Association, so because I was an Encore [...]

Last Thursday night I drove to the Marian University campus on the west side of Indy to see the Indianapolis Civic Theatre’s production of “Evita.” 
It was a “wow” experience.  I mean, wow.

Last weekend was full of surprises in terms of Indianapolis area theatre. 

Nominations for the 2008-2009 Encore Awards are now up on the Encore Association’s website.  Eleven all-volunteer community theatres in the Indianapolis, Indiana area have been competing this past season in a wide variety of categories.  It has been my pleasure to serve as one of the judges for these awards.  I admire every person who [...]

 
I had a wonderful time at the Penrod Arts Festival on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art yesterday.  I confess that part of what got me there was the thought that I would be able to bring my iPhone along and “tweet” about my day at Penrod as @IndyTheatre on Twitter.com.
I also made [...]

My father was in town yesterday for less than 24 hours.  I picked him up from the airport and we had a leisurely late lunch at the Shapiro’s Restaurant in Carmel.  I had my iPhone with me so I read my father the email I had received the previous day from Millicent Wright at the [...]

Last Saturday night I met a friend at Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre on the northwest side of Indianapolis to see “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.”* It was directed by Douglas E. Stark, with music direction by Terry Woods and choreography by Ron Morgan.
Neither my friend nor I had seen a production of this show [...]