Indy Theatre Habit

 
I am working on a full review of “The Color Purple: The Musical About Love,” which I saw and loved at Clowes Hall on Tuesday night.  However, I am not going to be able to finish writing it before the end of the year.  (The year ends in less than seven hours, you know, and I have a [...]

Christmas Eve…
Last Sunday I had been sick in bed for more than three days.  My body ached, my soul ached, I couldn’t write, and I couldn’t seem to stop crying.
But on Sunday afternoon I dragged myself out of bed and spent time at a party with friends whose love always makes me feel safer and [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am experiencing some serious writer’s block, probably due to various stressful situations in my non-blogging life.  Maybe, like Dorothy, I will wake up and find it was all a dream.
In the meantime, this is the best I can do:
I went to the opening night of the 2009 [...]

I have been sick and I have had some big challenges at my day job and in my personal life, all of which are probably related, and all of which, combined, have made it difficult for me to juice up for blogging.  I hope this is a temporary situation because a) if not, the theatre [...]

Last Sunday afternoon, a new friend and I met at the Phoenix Theatre in downtown Indianapolis to see “A Very Phoenix Xmas 4: Our Stockings Are Stuffed.”  It was conceived and directed by Bryan Fonseca, with musical direction by Kevin D. Smith and technical direction by Christopher Hansen.
In years past, I wrote about Xmas 3 [...]

Last Saturday night, my friend David and I met at the Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre on the northwest side of Indianapolis to see their seventeenth annual Christmas variety show, aptly titled “A Beef and Boards Christmas.”  It was directed by Elizabeth Stark and choreographed and co-directed by Ron Morgan, with musical direction by Terry [...]