Indy Theatre Habit

On Friday, April 16, 2010, I drove to the Old Northside neighborhood of Indianapolis to see “Murder and Mystery in the Mansion.”  It was presented by Victorian Theatre by Candlelight as a President’s Theatre Production at the President Benjamin Harrison Home. The show is a unique and very enjoyable evening of theatre: three short mystery [...]

On Sunday, April 11, 2010, I drove west from Indianapolis to Danville in Hendricks County to see “Grace & Glorie” at the Longstreet Playhouse, new home of the all-volunteer Hendricks Civic Theatre.  This play was written by Tom Ziegler, directed by Joan Kimbley, and produced by Jan Van Paris. It is an intense and inspirational [...]

Holy smokes!  My first scoop!  The stars are almost never aligned in such a way that I, a part-time theatre blogger, can post something before anyone else does, but I think this time I am first.  Is this what professional journalists feel like?  Oh, scoop, scoop, scoop! Enough about me, though.  Guess what was in [...]

A couple weekends ago, I drove downtown to the Mass-Ave theatre district of downtown Indianapolis to see the opening performance of “Yankee Tavern” at the Phoenix Theatre.  It was written by Steven Dietz and directed by Bryan Fonseca.  I liked this creepy-funny show so much that I went back to see it a second time [...]

I saw “A Chorus Line” on stage for the very first time last night.  However, I had been a fan of the songs for a long, long time because when I was in high school, almost every girl I knew sang “Kiss Today Goodbye” for her Junior Miss talent and every guy I knew sang [...]

I spent my writing time this morning conversing with computer people about my home computer, unfortunately, so this is another “Please don’t give up on me!” post, pounded out on a borrowed computer during a tiny window of opportunity.  Three quick items:

You know that I can maintain this theatre reviews blog right now only because I work my butt off at another, fulltime-plus, job which I also love and for which I am paid, right?  So I hope you will again forgive me for being behind in my review writing.   I have to/get to work at my [...]

On March 27, 2010, a friend met me at the Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre on the northwest side of Indianapolis to see “Hello, Dolly!” – a funny, Tony Award-winning musical about a matchmaker in Yonkers, New York, around the beginning of the last century. We had a lovely time. This was my first experience [...]

I saw “Becky’s New Car” when it opened here in Indianapolis at the Indiana Repertory Theatre on Friday, March 26, 2010.  It was written by Steven Dietz and directed by James Still. Dear Reader, I LOVED IT.  My friend did, too.  We stayed “high” on it all the rest of the weekend.  And I have [...]

On Saturday, March 13, 2010, I drove downtown to the Indiana History Center to see bilingual storyteller Peter Cook in “A Feast for the Eyes.”  This event was presented by Storytelling Arts of Indiana and the Indiana Historical Society. This was my third or fourth time hearing/seeing Peter share stories here in Indianapolis.  He is [...]