Indy Theatre Habit

My friend Adrienne and I attended the Media Night performance during the opening weekend of “Footloose” at the Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre on the northwest side of Indianapolis.  I enjoyed it, but then I had a run of home computer problems, so I am only getting around to writing about the show now.
Being without [...]

On Friday, February 12, 2010, I drove to the Carmel Community Playhouse in Clay Terrace shopping center to see the Carmel Community Players’ production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” by Tennessee Williams. 
I had never seen or even read this 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, nor seen the movie.  I love that CCP’s whole first [...]

On Thursday, February 11, 2010, I drove to the Phoenix Theatre in downtown Indianapolis to see the Midwest premiere of “Call Me Boricua!” a one-man show written and performed by Ricardo Melendez.  It was presented by the Phoenix Theatre and The Workshop Theatre Group.  Bryan Fonseca directed it.
The show was in Indy for only two [...]

The rest of Indianapolis has moved on from the Colts’ attempt to win another Super Bowl on Sunday, February 6, 2010.  However, I had an artistic gestalt that night and now that I think I may have my home computer working again, I would like to record a few more thoughts about my “discovery” of [...]

I was sick the opening weekend of “Bus Stop” at the Indianapolis Civic Theatre so I reluctantly cancelled my media passes and stayed home.  However, a friend had turned me on to William Inge’s work a couple years ago so I very much wanted to see a live production of this William Inge play.  I [...]

Wordpress alerts me when someone has linked to my blog.  This weekend I learned that a blogger named Esther linked last week to my 2008 conversation with playwright James Still.
Esther’s post expresses delight with several of the theatre grants recently awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts.  One of them is a grant for [...]

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 that [...]

On Tuesday night, I drove to the Indy Fringe building in downtown Indianapolis to hear local, leading journalists tell their stories about writers’ block at the first “Jabberwocky” event.  It was sponsored by Indy Fringe and Storytelling Arts of Indiana.   Last weekend when I was interviewing Bill Harley, he told me that this is part [...]

I saw and enjoyed “The Foreigner” at Beef and Boards on Thursday night.  I am working on a detailed review, which I plan to post tomorrow (Sunday.)
After that I plan to share some detailed news from my email box.
But first I want to quickly share what else I’ve done, and would like to do if [...]

I know that I am overdue in writing a Mailbox post about the many, many interesting theatre-related things going on around Indianapolis right now but tonight I would just like to share my bliss (and okay, yes, brag a bit) about a handful of unexpected invitations that have come my way recently.