Indy Theatre Habit

It has been about a year since I began my life as a theatre writer and about five months since I started this blog.  Each week I learn a little more about how to do it.  I also learn a little bit more each week about how to keep my theatre habit in balance with the rest of […]

A week ago Saturday night (4-26-08) I drove downtown for a special storytelling collaboration.  Bobby Norfolk told “Swingin’ with Duke Ellington,” accompanied by pianist Pete Ruthenburg.  The event was presented by Storytelling Arts of Indiana and the Indiana History Center.  Joyce Ellinger interpreted the piece in American Sign Language.
I had heard Norfolk tell children’s stories […]

Last Saturday evening, after a second, and even longer and deeper than yesterday’s, massage that left me feeling euphoric and toxin-free and wondering why I don’t get massages more often, I bundled up and made my way again to the old schoolhouse to hear Megan Wells tell “Helen’s Troy.”  It would be the third and final storytelling piece […]

Last Friday night, after a pummeling massage that left me groggy followed by a light nap and a delicious dinner at the Storyteller’s Riverhouse, I grabbed my umbrella out of my car and walked over to the antique school house for the second night of storytelling at the “Going Deep: Long Traditional Story Festival” in […]

Last Thursday night I walked from the Storyteller’s Riverhouse, past the big tree house, past the tiny post office, past the big field, to the old school house to hear the first storytelling piece of the “Going Deep: Long Traditional Story Festival” in Bethlehem, Indiana.  Olga Loya would share her version of “The Aztec Creation.”

Last week I took a few days off from my day job and drove down to the tiny town of Bethlehem, Indiana, for the second “Going Deep: Long Traditional Story Festival.”  I went to the first one two years ago in 2006, too.  I hope it becomes an annual event.  It restores my equilibrium and inspires me in ways […]

On Saturday night I was at the Indiana History Center’s Basile Theater to hear one of my storytelling heroes, Heather Forest, share “Travel Scenes.”  This program for adults was produced by Storytelling Arts of Indiana and “presented” (sponsored) by Marcia Baker.  It was part of The Storytelling Series sponsored by Beth Millett.
Several years ago, when […]

On Saturday night I drove downtown to the Indiana History Center for storyteller Bil Lepp’s presentation of “Punching the Lard: True Stories & Tall Tales.”  It was produced by Storytelling Arts of Indiana and sponsored by Andrew Hamaker.
The IHC’s Frank and Katrina Basile Theater was packed.  Earlier in the evening, several people had attended Storytelling Arts of Indiana’s annual […]

On Saturday, February 2, 2008 I went to hear “What Folks Told Me, and What They Didn’t,” a storytelling program for adults.  It featured visiting professional storyteller Lyn Ford.  It was produced by Storytelling Arts of Indiana at the Indiana History Center and presented (sponsored) by Lewis & Kappes as part of the Storytelling Series […]

Storytelling is my performance art of choice, so it is fitting that my first review for “Indy Theatre Habit” is a review of a new storytelling piece by one of my favorite tellers.
On Sunday, January 27, 2008, storyteller Stephanie Holman shared for the first time a 2-hour piece called “Safe and Sound. Letter to Follow: Stories of […]