Indy Theatre Habit

The more performance art I experience, the more I realize how personal that experience is.  I love that it is personal.  I love that it is ephemeral, too.  It is impossible to sustain or even to reproduce exactly, because it is live.  The only way to truly experience a live theatre piece is to be present for [...]

I learned today that writer Lou Harry’s and his wife, Cindy’s beautiful, feisty, talented, teenaged daughter, Maggie, passed away last night.  I met Maggie Harry at the world premiere of one of Lou’s plays, “Midwestern Hemisphere” in 2008 and got to chat with her again at a board game marathon at their house one winter. [...]

Dear readers, For a number of reasons that I am not going to discuss, I am not going to blog any more for a while.  I may come back to it later. I would like to thank everyone that has read and responded to Indy Theatre Habit over the past three and a half years.  [...]

Update 4/18/11:  Here is a direct link to the obituary in the Indianapolis Star: http://www2.indystar.com/cgi-bin/obituaries/index.php?action=show&id=127822 It includes the following information (at the end) about a memorial service: A Memorial Celebration will be held on Wednesday, May 4, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Athenaeum Theatre, 401 E. Michigan St. Burial services will be private. [...]

If you are a regular reader of Indy Theatre Habit you may remember that I shared with you the news of Midge Munds’ passing last month.  Midge was the mother of Ellen Munds, executive director of Storytelling Arts of Indiana. Ellen’s father (Midge’s husband) passed away on Wednesday.  I can’t find the obituary yet in [...]

  Believe it or not, I have been plugging away at the items on my Writing Plan from March 2.  In the meantime, however: ***  A giant bunny visited me in my workplace with an invitation to see Q Artistry’s next show, “Bunny Spectacular” when it opens on April 1, 2011.  (See video, above.)  I [...]

(Photo is of Jonah Winston in “Diaspora.”  Photo provided by the director, Michael Hosp.  See below for more info about the show.) Well, I have been tweeting fairly regularly (@IndyTheatre) but I am way behind in my blogging!  What can I say?  My fulltime day job and my personal life have demanded most of my [...]

When I drove to the Indiana History Center in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday night to enjoy a storytelling performance by Minton Sparks (review coming soon!) I didn’t see Storytelling Arts of Indiana executive director Ellen Munds. It is very unusual not to see Ellen at a Storytelling Arts event, so after the storytelling was over, [...]

I have a love-hate relationship with “best of the year” lists.  I think Americans (and probably many other people) are obsessed to the point of disease over making comparisons. The added problem with a “best of the year” theatre list is that, unlike with a list of books or movies, you usually can not go [...]

I was shocked and very sad to wake up this morning and read from various people on Facebook and Twitter that young Indianapolis actor Dannon Crews had passed away during the night. I was not close to him personally, but I enjoyed his company whenever I happened to hang out with him at a party [...]