Indy Theatre Habit

Last Sunday afternoon I drove to the Carmel Community Playhouse in the Claypool Terrace shopping area of Carmel, Indiana (just north of Indianapolis) to see the Carmel Community Players’ production of “I Hate Hamlet.”  This comedy was written by Paul Rudnick.  It was directed for CCP by Lori Raffel and produced by Risa Krauter. It was [...]

Last Saturday night I drove to the southeast side of Indianapolis to the Buck Creek Playhouse to see the Buck Creek Players’ production of “Auntie Mame.”  It was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based on the 1955 bestselling novel by Patrick Dennis.  It was directed for Buck Creek by Andrew Ranck and [...]

Last Thursday night I drove to the Phoenix Theatre in downtown Indianapolis to see the Midwest premiere of “This,” by Melissa James Gibson.  It was directed for the Phoenix by Dale McFadden, assisted by Jonathan James Courtemanche.  It was produced by the Phoenix’s Producing Director, Bryan Fonseca. It is a smart, delicately funny show that [...]

  Last Friday I drove to the Indiana Repertory Theatre in downtown Indianapolis to see the opening night performance of the world premiere of “The Gospel According to James.”  It was written by Charles Smith and directed by Chuck Smith.  It was commissioned by the IRT and its artistic director, Janet Allen, after she read [...]

Last Sunday afternoon I drove to the Marian College campus on the west side of Indianapolis to see the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre’s production of “Cabaret.”   I had never seen this Tony award-winning musical before. It is so poignant!  Also, both the quality of the performers (all volunteers) and the quality of the design team [...]

On January 29, 2011 I drove over to the west side of Indianapolis to Wayne Township Community Theatre’s presentation of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” in the Ben Davis High School Theatre. That was the last night of its run, and I didn’t accept a media pass for it, so I never planned to [...]

Last Thursday I drove to downtown Indianapolis to see the Midwest premiere of “The Storytelling Ability of a Boy” at the Phoenix Theatre.  It was written by Carter W. Lewis and directed for the Phoenix by Bryan Fonseca, assisted by Raphael Schwartzman. As with just about every show I see at the Phoenix, I loved [...]

(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 [...]

Last Thursday night I met a couple of friends at Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre on the northwest side of Indianapolis to see “Hairspray.”    One of these two friends loves theatre almost as much as I do.  The other is a more reluctant theatre-goer.  This was my first time seeing this multiple-Tony Award winning [...]

Last Friday night I drove to the northwest side of Indianapolis to the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre (sometimes still known as the Indianapolis Civic Theatre) to see their production of the Tony Award-winning drama, “The Last Night of Ballyhoo.”  It was written by Alfred Uhry and directed at Civic by Jennifer Loia Alexander. This was [...]