Indy Theatre Habit

 
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 […]

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.  […]

Last Saturday night (9/5/08) my friend and sister storyteller, Sandra Harris, and I drove just south of downtown Indy to the Milano Inn to experience “Pizza Driver: Murder by the Slice” at the Mystery Café.
The executive producer, Joe Strange, had told me that some people say that his kind of interactive show is not truly theatre.  […]

This post includes information about the Wayne Township Community Theatre’s production of “Pippin” that may help parents and teens decide whether or not to go see the show with each other.  One of my regular readers asked if she should take her 12-year-old.  I can not answer that because every child is different, and she […]

On Saturday night I drove to the northwest side of Indy to the Pike Performing Arts Center to see the Actors Theatre of Indiana’s production of “The World Goes Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb.”  This revue was conceived by Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman, and David Thompson, and directed by ATI’s c0-founder and Producing Artistic Director, Don […]

…and apparently no small photos for this blog post, either.  However, I don’t have time to fiddle with it any more so it will just have to stay huge.  ‘Sorry!  Or maybe I should just post every photo from now on in this size.  Hmm….
Anyway, now that I am safely home, I will tell you that I […]

I just got home from an especially transformative night at the theatre.   (Well, actually, it was two nights ago, Thursday, as I finish writing this post.)
I drove downtown to the Phoenix Theatre to see the first Spanish performance in Indiana of “Papa’ Esta’ en la Atla’ntida” or “Our Dad is in Atlantis”, by Javier Malpica.  I had […]

As I mentioned in my last post, May is a crazy-busy month for me at my day job.  I have been working some long days there lately.  However, by this afternoon (Sunday) I felt reasonably caught up.  I had missed the Our Town Players’ Shakespeare piece out at Franklin, I had missed “South Pacific” at […]

I always thought that the miffed fairy who was not invited to Sleeping Beauty’s christening party overreacted when she put a curse on the baby, the family, and all of the castle staff.  I mean, isn’t that the behavior of a passive-aggressive bitch?  But now I think I know how she felt.
I learned today that […]

Last Saturday night I went to the Easter vigil service at my church.  I hadn’t been to church in a while.  I was struck by the similarities between church and theatre.  However, I wanted to cheer and applaud at the end of the offertory anthem and Episcopalians don’t do that.  Ah, well.
On Tuesday night I […]