Indy Theatre Habit

On Sunday, January 24, 2010, I drove to the Frank and Katrina Basile Theatre in the newly renovated Indiana History Center in downtown Indianapolis to hear the premiere performance of “Root Doctors, Midwives, and Fried-Mice Pie: Medicine in Early Indiana.”  Storyteller Susan Grizzell was commissioned to develop and present this piece by Storytelling Arts of [...]

I leave for Boston in 15 minutes or so, to attend the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting and to help decide the ten winners of the Alex Award.  You may remember that I posted about last year’s winners here. This means that I will not be able to see any of the many intriguing shows [...]

I am delighted for one of my favorite playwrights: **********  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.nationaltheatreconference.org November 3, 2009  JAMES STILL ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL THEATRE CONFERENCE  Playwright James Still is a newly-elected member of the National Theatre Conference and was inducted on October 30, 2009 at the historic Players Club in New York City. The National [...]

Guess what?!  Broadway Across America is adding me to their media distribution list!  (Thanks very much, Nancy Parrott and Elizabeth Truitt!)  I have included an excerpt from their first press release to me at the bottom of this post.  I love reading press releases, don’t you?  Beyond their content, as pieces of writing they are [...]

There is a LOT going on in terms of performance art in the Indianapolis area this month, especially since October is traditionally THE month for ghost stories.  In this post I would like to share excerpts from four emails that I received from people doing “scary” shows that sound interesting.  

I am DELIGHTED and honored that some of this year’s Fringe performers have started emailing me their press releases and publicity photos directly.  I am going to share them here on Indy Theatre Habit as a way of anticipating the 2009 Indy Fringe Festival, which will take place August 21-30 in various locations on and [...]

Guess what?  I am going to be one of three judges for a new liar’s contest at the Indiana State Fair on Sunday, August 16, 2009!  The other two judges will be two of my favorite sister storytellers, Sue Grizzell and Celestine Bloomfield.  There will be cash prizes! So what do you say?  ‘Know any good [...]

I will be on a blog vacation from now until July 19, 2009.  I hope you won’t forget about Indy Theatre Habit during that time.  More importantly, I hope you won’t forget about going to the theatre!   There is a lot going on in terms of live storytelling and theatre in the Indianapolis area in the [...]

Yes!  Remember how I said a few days ago that I had some other playwright news that I was waiting to confirm before I shared it with you?  I have been too busy even to make a phone call, but today I happened to receive confirmation of one those bits via a press release that [...]

My goodness, there is a lot going on this next weekend!  “Annie” is still running at Beef and Boards, for example, and “Octopus” continues at the Phoenix…but before I tell you about the new stuff that caught my eye in my email box this week, let me invite you to take a virtual tour of [...]