http://www.indytheatrehabit.com Reviews, rants, and raves about all kinds of live theatre in the Indianapolis area. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:09:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Hoosier Storytelling Festival is this week! Last night, I drove downtown to the Eiteljorg Museum to hear Native American storyteller Gene Tagaban.  I was supposed to have been his driver this whole week as he and the other featured tellers shared stories with crowds of school children in the huge ... http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/2008/10/10/gene-tagaban-and-the-2008-hoosier-storytelling-festival/ Last Sunday morning I drove west for over an hour to reach the Myers Dinner Theatre in Hillsboro, Indiana, which is just this side of the border between Indiana and Illinois. This semi-community, semi-for-profit theatre has intrigued me ever since one of its regular artists, Linnea Leatherman, told me that she ... http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/2008/10/08/south-pacific-at-myers-dinner-theatre/ Last Saturday night I picked up my friend and sister storyteller, Sandra Harris.  We drove over to the Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre to see "The Sound of Music."  (Music by Richard Rogers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, suggested by The Story of ... http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/2008/10/07/the-sound-of-music-at-beef-and-boards/ I am working on my reviews of the two non-Encore shows that I saw this weekend: "The Sound of Music" at the Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre and "South Pacific" at the Myers Dinner Theatre.  It takes me a minimum of four hours to write each review, and I try ... http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/2008/10/06/a-second-poe-night-by-hart/ I have heard from several sources that the Phoenix Theatre has decided to extend its run of David Mamet's "November."  My friend Chris and I saw this show opening weekend and loved it.   Apparently, we were not the only ones. According to the press release that Phoenix Managing Director Sharon Gamble ... http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/2008/10/03/seven-extra-chances-to-see-november-at-the-phoenix/   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 ... http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/2008/10/02/encore-judging/ I saw sign language interpreter Joyce Ellinger in the lobby of the Indianapolis Civic Theatre last Thursday night.  We were both waiting to see "Little Shop of Horrors." I have long admired Ellinger's signing of programs offered by Storytelling Arts of Indiana.  I was glad to hear that she and her ... http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/2008/09/29/sign-language-at-civic/ Last Thursday night I drove over to the northwest side of Indianapolis to the Marion College campus to see the Indianapolis Civic Theatre's production of "Little Shop of Horrors."   I hope you got to see it, too, because it was a real treat, and it closed today. This musical is based ... http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/2008/09/28/little-shop-of-horrors-at-indy-civic/ Last weekend was an impromptu Steven Dietz festival for me.  First I saw his adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories: "Sherlock Holmes: the Final Adventure" at the Indiana Repertory Theatre downtown last Friday night.  Then last Saturday night I met my brother at the Asylum House in Greenwood on ... http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/2008/09/27/dracula-by-artbox-productions/ 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 ... http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/2008/09/24/a-dazzling-opening-night-at-the-irt/