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Latest B’way cast recordings
August 7, 2008
Comments(4)With a new season starting on Broadway, I thought it a good time to give a listen to a stack of cast
recordings of 2007/2008 shows. More than the original production, I believe, the cast recording is what encourages
future...
MoreEmptying the A&E notebook
August 6, 2008
Comments(0)Some thoughts on recent arts encounters that didn't make it into my weekly IBJ A&E review column:
-- With a trio of young, out-of-town sports nuts in tow, I recently paid my first visit in years to the
National Art...
MoreCut to: The city's arts budget
August 5, 2008
Comments(11)The buzz is growing around the arts community about anticipated budget cuts from the Ballard administration to
be announced on Monday. See, for example, Justin Ohlemiller's commentary at the Hetrick Communications site here and
Gracie Communications' Lisa Sirkin's "Save the Arts" page...
MoreIBJ Movie Night: 'American Teen'
August 4, 2008
Comments(2)"American Teen" won the Best Director/Documentary award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Shot in Warsaw, Indiana, it follows a group of teens through senior year of high school. Rolling Stone's
critic said, "If 'The Hills' went back to high school and developed...
MoreYou-review-it Monday
August 4, 2008
Comments(8)This weekend, family commitments kept me out of the arts loop--although I did find time to take some sports-crazy
out-of-towners through the National Art Museum of Sport and my in-laws to the "To Live Forever" show at
the Indianapolis Museum...
More'Bodies' raises questions
July 30, 2008
Comments(10)"Premier cannot independenty verify that the human remains you are viewing are not those of persons who were
incarcerated in Chinese prisons..."
So say the presenters of "Bodies...the Exhibition," the controversial show--featuring cadavers, body parts, and
organs--being presented here at Claypool...
MoreIMA Great Hall to get greater
July 29, 2008
Comments(3)Max Anderson at the Indianapolis Museum of Art has finally gotten his wish--a dominant piece of art in the
IMA's Pulliam Great Hall (that's the open area you enter as soon as you go through the sliding doors at
the...
MoreIllegal smiles: Pot comedy returns
July 29, 2008
Comments(11)Variety reports today that "Up in Smoke" comedy legends Cheech and Chong will be hitting the road for the
first time in 25 years. Their national tour, titled "Hey, What's that Smell?" will be announced tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the latest comedy from...
MoreYou-review-it Monday
July 28, 2008
Comments(4)You have to love an Indianapolis weekend when it's impossible to get to everything you want to see.
While I caught Allalike Productions' "bare," Theatre on the Square's remarkable "A Very Merry Unauthorized
Children's Scientology Pageant," ShadowApe's "Transformations" and ACT's young...
MorePike/Warren add to touring choices
July 25, 2008
Comments(2)In the previous blog, I listed the upcoming schedule for the Clowes Presents series. Well, Clowes Hall isn't
our town's only presenter of across-the-arts-spectrum one-night-only touring talent.
Here are the 2008-2009 shows coming to town courtesy of the Pike Performing...
MoreClowes announces schedule
July 25, 2008
Comments(2)Some arts organizations create. Others present.
As to the latter, what Clowes Hall brings to town helps define the Indy arts season. So what do you think
of this year's "Clowes Presents" lineup?
Loudon Wainwright III and Leo Kottke (Sept. 27)
Hubbard Street Dance...
MoreAds infiltrate fringe fest
July 24, 2008
Comments(5)One of the core ideas behind most fringe theater festivals is that anyone can sign up to perform. If you
get your application in early enough--and pay the nominal sign-up fee--your show is part of the event.
As demonstrated by the...
MoreConfess: books you haven't read
July 23, 2008
Comments(11)At England's Ways with Words literary festival, authors were asked to name books that they are ashamed to
admit they haven't read. See story here.
For me, that would be a long list, including "Catch-22," "Moby Dick," "Remembrance of Things...
MoreVote casting: 'Legally Blonde,' etc.
July 22, 2008
Comments(4)Broadway has a new lead actress for "Legally Blonde: The Musical," thanks to an MTV talent competition (see
story here). London and Broadway have also cast talent for revivals of "Grease," "Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat," "The...
MoreYou-review-it Monday
July 20, 2008
Comments(9)So how was your weekend? Did you go through some "Transformations" with ShadowApe Theatre? Take a trip down
the yellow brick robe to see "The Wiz"? Take in a Black Expo Summer Celebration concert? Check out Chakaia
Booker's downtown artwork?...
MoreDick Lugar makes The Onion
July 18, 2008
Comments(0)A little light reading for the day, care of The Onion.
It's the senator's first appearance in the satiric newspaper since this story in 2004.
Enjoy. Just don't forward these as real news, please.
MoreEmmy nominees announced
July 17, 2008
Comments(6)The Emmy Awards don't have the same cache--or offer the same box-office boost--as the Oscars or the Tonys.
But they do lend prestige to the TV shows and talent that win them.
Because much of my evening time is spent at...
MoreSummer of the Superhero
July 15, 2008
Comments(6)There was Iron Man. There was the Hulk. There was Hell Boy. Now, Batman is back.
Summer has long been the time of blockbuster special effects movies, but this year seems disproportionately
super hero focused.
What does it say that so many films--not...
MoreAll the music we can handle?
July 14, 2008
Comments(9)With concerts booked heavily at Verizon Wireless Music Center, the Lawn at White River State Park, the Murat,
the Indiana State Fair, Music Mill, the Vogue, the casinos and other venues as well as Indy Jazz Fest, IBE's
Summer Celebration, and RibAmerica, it...
MoreYou-review-it Monday
July 13, 2008
Comments(6)So did you catch DK's Gershwin show? Do the Time Warp again with the rest of the "Rocky Horror" fans at
the Indianapolis Museum of Art? Or catch the young adult production of "Once on this Island" at Footlite?
Whatever your...
MoreFlashback: Our liveliest arts blogs
July 11, 2008
Comments(0)Somewhere between the 100th and 200th episode of any self-respecting sitcom, there's usually a moment where
the cast is trapped
...
MoreYour summer reading list
July 11, 2008
Comments(3)At the top of my reading pile right now is Doug Crandell's new novel "Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed." Crandell
has Indiana roots, a big heart, and lots of talent and I'm looking forward to gliding into this one.
It will...
MoreAwarding high school theater?
July 10, 2008
Comments(2)Forgive the randomness of today's posting. I'm in a clearing-my-desk frenzy before taking off tomorrow afternoon
for a family trip to the Jersey shore. (Thank goodness I have some LA Theatre Works plays on tape to get
me through...
MorePretending to like new music
July 9, 2008
Comments(6)Noted curmudgeon—and very smart and funny writer—Joe Queenan recently threw down the gauntlet at contemporary
classical music and those who, in his view, claim to like it.
Some notable quotes from his article “Admit It, You’re as Bored as...
MoreSmoking ban for 'Jersey Boys'
July 8, 2008
Comments(14)Chris Jones at the Chicago Tribune reports that the Chicago production of "Jersey Boys" (an outstanding show,
by the way--and that's me talking, not Jones) has gone smoke free.
He's not talking about the theater. He's talking about the...
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