Indy Theatre Habit

  (Note:  The above little video is one that I made outside the Phoenix Theatre with Minnesota-based storyteller Loren Niemi on my trusty iPhone during the main Indy Fringe Festival last summer but for one reason or another never posted.   I should have stood closer to Loren while I was filming so that the volume [...]

My email box is filled to bursting again, but I won’t have time to do another mailbox post until next week, so I want to just quickly mention three, no, four things going on this weekend that particularly appeal to me:

The answer is “yes.”  Yes, I saw the new Prine show at the Phoenix before it closed.  A lot of people have asked me that in the past week. And yes, I loved it, too.  It was unlike any other show I had ever seen. I am not going to write a regular review of [...]

Last Sunday I drove to Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre on the northwest side of Indianapolis to hear a tribute to one of my favorite singers.  I was surprised and delighted to learn that ”Always…Patsy Cline” is not “just” Christine Mild as Patsy singing song after song – although I am sure I would have enjoyed that, too, [...]

Last Friday night I stayed late at the Indy Fringe building in downtown Indianapolis to see another of the five winning plays in the first annual, juried “DivaFest” – a celebration of local women playwrights, sponsored by the Indy Fringe Festival. This one was called “Madwomen’s Late Nite Cabaret.”  It was written and directed by [...]

A week ago Friday night I drove through stormy weather to the Indy Fringe building in downtown Indianapolis to see the premiere of “Dash Thirty Dash,” written by Amy Wimmer Schwarb and directed by Matthew Roland. This was one of the five winning plays in the first annual juried “DivaFest” – an event developed by [...]

A week ago Friday night I ignored tornado threats and drove downtown to the Mass. Ave. theatre district of Indianapolis to see productions of two of the five winning scripts in the year-round Indy Fringe Festival’s first annual DivaFest weekend.  According to the IndyFringe website, DivaFest is “a celebration of women playwrights.”  Its purpose is “to [...]

I attended the 2010 Spotlight event to benefit the Indiana AIDS Fund last Monday night at Clowes Memorial Hall with friends Chris and Donna and others.  I loved Spotlight my first year, and this year was even better. Of course I am glad that this gala raised $367,398 for its important cause this year.  (Source: [...]

As always, there was a lot going on in terms of live theatre in the Indianapolis area last weekend and I have a lot in my email box about events coming up.  Here is my writing plan for the next few days: Word of Mouth and Mailbox (today’s post) IndyFringe DivaFest Overview Spotlight 2010 – For [...]

On Saturday, May 1, 2010, I drove to the Indiana History Center in downtown Indianapolis to hear professional storyteller Olga Loya present “Nepantla: Between Worlds.”  This event was produced by Storytelling Arts of Indiana and the Indiana Historical Society as part of the Printing Partners Storytellers Theater series. I had been looking forward to this [...]