Indy Theatre Habit

Last Tuesday night was a special treat for me: I got to see live theatre during the week!  (When I become independently wealthy, I am going to go out for dinner and see live theatre every night of the week!) I drove over to Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre on the northwest side of Indianapolis [...]

Last Sunday afternoon I drove north of Indianapolis to the Carmel Community Playhouse to see the Carmel Community Players’ production of “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” by Sarah Ruhl.  Kari Ann Stamatoplos directed it for CCP, with Michael T. Long as the producer. This is a bizarre but charming show by the same person who wrote “In [...]

Late on Saturday afternoon, October 9, 2010, I wrenched a leg muscle as I was leaving my day job.  Oh, man, did it hurt!  The last thing I felt like doing was going to a show. However, that Saturday night was Storytelling Arts of Indiana’s second annual ghost story event for adults on the canal [...]

Holy smokes!  Have you heard?  Phil Van Hest, aka Phil the Void, aka the hilarious, long-time Indy Fringe performer who has been comfortably based in Los Angeles the whole time I have known him, aka the beloved purveyor of gnome saying bumper stickers and BattleCat trading cards,  is definitely MOVING TO INDIANAPOLIS this spring!

Dear Reader, I must apologize for again taking longer than a week to post a review.  I saw and loved Sarah Ruhl’s Tony-and-Pulitzer-nominated “In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play,” directed and produced by Bryan Fonseca, at the Phoenix Theatre in downtown Indianapolis on Sunday, October 3, 2010.  That was the weekend it opened [...]

  Last Friday night I drove to the Irvington neighborhood on the east side of Indianapolis for the 2010 opening night of the funny-dark musical “Cabaret Poe.”   This Q Artistry production is richly staged in the ballroom(?) on the top floor of the Irvington Lodge.  The piece was written and directed by local performance artist [...]

So I’ve been working on my review of “In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play,” by Sarah Ruhl, which I saw and loved at the Phoenix Theatre last weekend.  It is a beautiful, beautiful show, both visually (the gorgeous Victorian set and costumes!) and in terms of the language and story, which are exquisitely [...]

This past weekend was the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee.  Performance storytelling lovers from all over the country – and even from other countries – gather to swap tales at this annual festival.  I’m talking thousands of people, sitting on folding wooden chairs crammed under huge tents, listening to individuals on raised platforms “just” [...]

There is SO MUCH performance art – creepy or otherwise – going on in the Indianapolis area this month!  I am working on three reviews, now: