Indy Theatre Habit

 
I haven’t had much writing time during the past two days, but I was able to make two more little videos with performers from the 2010 Indianapolis Fringe Theatre Festival.
In the above video, playwright-performer Dan Bernitt talks about his solo staged reading of “Swan Balloon,” a fairy tale for adults. 

My angel card for this weekend is Surrender.  I think this means that I am supposed to just follow my heart around the 2010 Indy Fringe Theatre Festival this year, not necessarily follow my carefully-plotted out viewing plan.  It was fun to make that plan, but I’ll see what I am meant to see.
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I am back from my summer sabbatical.  Did you miss me?  I missed you.
I spent last evening tentatively plotting out what I’m going to see for the first five days of the 10-day 2010 Indy Fringe Theatre Festival.  If you plotted out your Fringe weeks ago, you might want to double-check the shows and schedules [...]

Dear Indy Theatre Habit readers,
How are you?  I am having a wonderful time on my summer sabbatical.  I am learning a lot about small business ownership, website design, and theatre journalism.  Mostly I am learning that I have an overwhelming amount to learn about all of this before I can take Indy Theatre Habit from [...]

After thinking about it for several days, I have decided to take a summer sabbatical from writing Indy Theatre Habit.
I need some time to learn more about the things I need to know in order to take this blog to the next level.  I also need some time to think about what “the next level” [...]

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:

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: David [...]

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 the Record
Theatre Review: “Dash [...]

Here are some odds ‘n’ ends of Indianapolis theatre news that I picked up in conversation this past weekend while I was out and about: