Indy Theatre Habit

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 [...]

I love to receive theatre-related press releases from “markets” outside the Indianapolis area.  I rarely do anything with them besides read them, and I laugh at myself for letting them make me feel important, but still, they delight me. I have been saving this one to share with you because even though it is about [...]

Continuing my end-of-the-year e-house cleaning, I could have sworn that I had an email with information about the feast that will be the 2012 Going Deep Long Traditional Story Retreat, including a call for stories.  However, I must have been too enthusiastic when I was in “delete mode” or something because now I can’t find it.  [...]

Here is another piece of Indy theatre news that I’ve been keeping in my mailbox for a while – this one since September (eep!) – but a) I think it is still interesting and b) you may not have heard about it yet and c) there are only a few days left in 2010, so here [...]

With just a few days left in 2010, I am going to follow the “better late than never” rule and quickly share with you a handful of press releases that I found particularly interesting.  Some of these have been sitting in my email box for a while but I think they are still interesting and [...]

A few days ago I received a press release from Lori Raffel at the Phoenix Theatre. The news was of their new assistant director internship program. Reading it brought back good, rich memories of my own assistant director experiences at the Phoenix in the late 1980s, before it was a professional theatre with Equity contracts and [...]

  On Saturday, November 13, 2010, I drove to the Irvington neighborhood on the east side of Indianapolis to see the first “Q-mmunity” production from Q Artistry, so named because it provides an opportunity for Q fans that don’t normally get to be on stage to be part of a show.  It also provides an [...]

I saw the final Indianapolis performance in Broadway Across America’s tour of “Dreamgirls.”  It was at the Murat Theatre at Old National Centre on Sunday evening, November 6, 2010. I had a wonderful time.  I want to record here some of the things I loved most about this show, but I also want to record [...]