Indy Theatre Habit

Last Friday night I drove to the northwest side of Indianapolis to the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre (sometimes still known as the Indianapolis Civic Theatre) to see their production of the Tony Award-winning drama, “The Last Night of Ballyhoo.”  It was written by Alfred Uhry and directed at Civic by Jennifer Loia Alexander. This was [...]

Here it is almost midnight on Wednesday and I still have two promised reviews from last weekend to finish writing plus a show or two coming up this weekend, plus, you know, my fulltime day job and my life outside Indy Theatre Habit, so I am not going to be able to write a full review [...]

(Left to right: Diana DeGarmo, Dee Hoty, and Mamie Parris.  Photo by Joan Marcus.) Last Wednesday I drove to Clowes Memorial Hall on the Butler University campus in Indianapolis to see Broadway Across America’s touring professional production of “9 to 5: the Musical.” I had such a good time that night that I bought the [...]

I just got back from San Diego, California, where the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting was held this year.  I was there to meet with my eight colleagues on the Alex Award committee.  We had to determine this year’s winners in time for them to be announced at the annual Youth Media Awards press conference [...]

On Thursday, December 30, for my last show of 2010, I drove to the northwest side of Indianapolis to the Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre for Media Night for “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”  Because this theatre’s seasons run January-December, this is the first show of Beef and Boards’ 38th season. There are [...]

(Last updated:  January 2, 2012. Note: I stopped blogging for a while for a number of reasons beginning in May, 2011 .  I will probably start back up again eventually but in the meantime I continue to see shows for the pleasure of it.  (Of course!) That is why so many shows in this year’s directory are [...]