Indy Theatre Habit

The Hoosier Storytelling Festival is this week!
Last night, I drove downtown to the Eiteljorg Museum to hear Native American storyteller Gene Tagaban.  I was supposed to have been his driver this whole week as he and the other featured tellers shared stories with crowds of school children in the huge Festival tents in Military Park, […]

I have heard from several sources that the Phoenix Theatre has decided to extend its run of David Mamet’s “November.”  My friend Chris and I saw this show opening weekend and loved it.   Apparently, we were not the only ones.
According to the press release that Phoenix Managing Director Sharon Gamble sent me yesterday, “…audiences have […]

 
On September 1, 2008, I officially began my year as a judge for the Encore Association.  Before that, in August, I attended a new judges’ orientation session.  I am not allowed to talk or write about any of the shows that I see for Encore, but I am allowed to write about the judging procedure […]

I saw sign language interpreter Joyce Ellinger in the lobby of the Indianapolis Civic Theatre last Thursday night.  We were both waiting to see “Little Shop of Horrors.”
I have long admired Ellinger’s signing of programs offered by Storytelling Arts of Indiana.  I was glad to hear that she and her colleagues will again be signing […]

Last Friday night I drove downtown for the opening night of “Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure” at the Indiana Repertory Theatre.  To read my thoughts about the show itself, please go back one post, here.
I want to share some thoughts about the razzle-dazzle of the first opening night of the season at the IRT, too.  […]

It’s been a while since I mentioned here on my blog that I have been commissioned to create a 90-minute storytelling piece on Abraham Lincoln to help celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth in 2009.  However, last night I turned in the title for it:

The above photo has nothing to do with Mailbox Monday, but I just thought I would add it to this post about other Phoenix Theatre announcements.  It is a snapshot from David Mamet’s “November,” which will open at the Phoenix on September 11, 2008.  It was taken by Julie Curry, who also happens to have […]

 
I have three or four items from my mailbox that I would like to share with you on this “Mailbox Monday.”  The first is news from Marc Acito.  He is the author of two hilarious novels: How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater and The Attack of the […]

I still have several Fringe reviews to write, but in the meantime I want to direct you to an article that Lou Harry wrote for the August 30, 2008 edition of the Indianapolis Busines Journal.
In it, he talks about the Fringe being interesting on both the macro and micro levels.   He addresses the various complaints that […]

I have now reported on the 2008 Indianapolis Fringe Festival for seven days straight.   I am taking today (Thursday) and maybe tomorrow off from seeing shows to play catch-up with my posts and my life.  Even God took a break after six days, right?  And God knows, NO reviewer is a deity.
So, before I get dressed […]