Indy Theatre Habit

Yesterday I made two little videos while hanging out between shows at the 2010 Indianapolis Fringe Theatre Festival.  In the video above, “The Last Straight Man in Theatre,” Kurt Fitzpatrick, talks with me about his multi-media solo show (which I hope to see next weekend) and shares advice about how to succeed as a performer [...]

My angel card for this weekend is Surrender.  I think this means that I am supposed to just follow my heart around the 2010 Indy Fringe Theatre Festival this year, not necessarily follow my carefully-plotted out viewing plan.  It was fun to make that plan, but I’ll see what I am meant to see.
This is a [...]

A week ago Friday night I ignored tornado threats and drove downtown to the Mass. Ave. theatre district of Indianapolis to see productions of two of the five winning scripts in the year-round Indy Fringe Festival’s first annual DivaFest weekend.  According to the IndyFringe website, DivaFest is “a celebration of women playwrights.”  Its purpose is “to [...]

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 [...]

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 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.

Christmas Eve…
Last Sunday I had been sick in bed for more than three days.  My body ached, my soul ached, I couldn’t write, and I couldn’t seem to stop crying.
But on Sunday afternoon I dragged myself out of bed and spent time at a party with friends whose love always makes me feel safer and [...]

Nominations for the 2008-2009 Encore Awards are now up on the Encore Association’s website.  Eleven all-volunteer community theatres in the Indianapolis, Indiana area have been competing this past season in a wide variety of categories.  It has been my pleasure to serve as one of the judges for these awards.  I admire every person who [...]

 
I had a wonderful time at the Penrod Arts Festival on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art yesterday.  I confess that part of what got me there was the thought that I would be able to bring my iPhone along and “tweet” about my day at Penrod as @IndyTheatre on Twitter.com.
I also made [...]