Indy Theatre Habit

I have a love-hate relationship with “best of the year” lists.  I think Americans (and probably many other people) are obsessed to the point of disease over making comparisons. The added problem with a “best of the year” theatre list is that, unlike with a list of books or movies, you usually can not go [...]

I was shocked and very sad to wake up this morning and read from various people on Facebook and Twitter that young Indianapolis actor Dannon Crews had passed away during the night. I was not close to him personally, but I enjoyed his company whenever I happened to hang out with him at a party [...]

I love to receive theatre-related press releases from “markets” outside the Indianapolis area.  I rarely do anything with them besides read them, and I laugh at myself for letting them make me feel important, but still, they delight me. I have been saving this one to share with you because even though it is about [...]

Continuing my end-of-the-year e-house cleaning, I could have sworn that I had an email with information about the feast that will be the 2012 Going Deep Long Traditional Story Retreat, including a call for stories.  However, I must have been too enthusiastic when I was in “delete mode” or something because now I can’t find it.  [...]

Here is another piece of Indy theatre news that I’ve been keeping in my mailbox for a while – this one since September (eep!) – but a) I think it is still interesting and b) you may not have heard about it yet and c) there are only a few days left in 2010, so here [...]

With just a few days left in 2010, I am going to follow the “better late than never” rule and quickly share with you a handful of press releases that I found particularly interesting.  Some of these have been sitting in my email box for a while but I think they are still interesting and [...]

A few days ago I received a press release from Lori Raffel at the Phoenix Theatre. The news was of their new assistant director internship program. Reading it brought back good, rich memories of my own assistant director experiences at the Phoenix in the late 1980s, before it was a professional theatre with Equity contracts and [...]

On Saturday, November 27, 2010 I drove to downtown Indianapolis to see the professional Indiana Repertory Theatre’s production of “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol,” adapted by Tom Haas and directed by Richard J. Roberts. It was the opening night of this annual holiday treat AND “alumni night” so every seat was filled.  The seat I [...]

You will never catch me out shopping on the day after Thanksgiving, but given a chance to see live theatre on Thanksgiving Day, I’m there! I drove south from Indianapolis to Bloomington, Indiana to share Thanksgiving dinner with some of my family and friends on Thursday, November 25 (Thanksgiving 2010.)  After dinner, four of us [...]