Indy Theatre Habit

I know, I know: most people have already shared their “best of 2012″ lists and moved on.  What can I say?  Sometimes I like to linger. Before I talk about the shows that impressed me and/or affected me most in 2012, I’d like to make note of a few other things that were unique to this [...]

(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 [...]

On Saturday, November 6, 2010 I drove to the Indiana History Center in downtown Indianapolis to see The Frank Basile Emerging Stories Fellowship Premieres, presented by Storytelling Arts of Indiana. As usual with this annual event, there were actually two premieres:  two new 50-minute pieces developed independently for adult audiences by selected Indiana storytellers.  This [...]

Late on Saturday afternoon, October 9, 2010, I wrenched a leg muscle as I was leaving my day job.  Oh, man, did it hurt!  The last thing I felt like doing was going to a show. However, that Saturday night was Storytelling Arts of Indiana’s second annual ghost story event for adults on the canal [...]

This past weekend was the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee.  Performance storytelling lovers from all over the country – and even from other countries – gather to swap tales at this annual festival.  I’m talking thousands of people, sitting on folding wooden chairs crammed under huge tents, listening to individuals on raised platforms “just” [...]

  I had a wonderful, wonderful first day of shows at the 2010 Indianapolis Fringe Theatre Festival yesterday.  I met some lovely new people (including Australian comedian Lou Sanz – see the little informal video we made after her first show, above) and reconnected with some dear friends. And…I saw four satisfying shows!

On Saturday, May 1, 2010, I drove to the Indiana History Center in downtown Indianapolis to hear professional storyteller Olga Loya present “Nepantla: Between Worlds.”  This event was produced by Storytelling Arts of Indiana and the Indiana Historical Society as part of the Printing Partners Storytellers Theater series. I had been looking forward to this [...]

On Saturday, March 13, 2010, I drove downtown to the Indiana History Center to see bilingual storyteller Peter Cook in “A Feast for the Eyes.”  This event was presented by Storytelling Arts of Indiana and the Indiana Historical Society. This was my third or fourth time hearing/seeing Peter share stories here in Indianapolis.  He is [...]

On Tuesday, February 9, I drove to the Indy Fringe Theatre Building in downtown Indianapolis for the second monthly “Jabberwocky” event of 2010. The first one had been a lot of fun, so I looked forward to the second one as well.  The “Jabberwocky” series of “rendezvous of Jabbers who share their life stories” is [...]

On Sunday, January 24, 2010, I drove to the Frank and Katrina Basile Theatre in the newly renovated Indiana History Center in downtown Indianapolis to hear the premiere performance of “Root Doctors, Midwives, and Fried-Mice Pie: Medicine in Early Indiana.”  Storyteller Susan Grizzell was commissioned to develop and present this piece by Storytelling Arts of [...]