My intention on my latest visit to The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis was to check out the new “Star Wars: the Clone Wars, the Exhibition,” but I found little of interest there to anyone but the hard-core fan. While I appreciate that not everything at the largely hands-on local treasure can be interactive, I was […]
Students were notified this week that John Green, the visionary head of Butler University’s theater program has accepted the position of Chair of Theatre at Columbia College in Chicago.
Green has been a frequent guest director at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, most recently working on…
Normally, I would wait until the next print edition of IBJ to review an A&E offering. But sometimes, that’s too late and I’m thankful for this forum to share what I’ve seen.
Having experienced Dance Kaleidoscope’s “America, the Modern” last night,…
“We are very intentionally reaching out to family audiences,” says Indiana Repertory Theatre Managing Director Steven Stolen, in discussing with me the about-to-be-announced 2009/2010 schedule for our state’s largest regional theater.
He’s not doing that just through programming—which includes a full…
Neil LaBute is know outside theater circles for writing and directing the lightning-rod film “In the Company of Men,” which he produced while teaching in Fort Wayne. A long string of writing and directing gigs followed, leading to, this month,…
Over at the Huffington Post, John Mellencamp has gone on at length about the state of the music business today.
Some excerpts:
–“Sadly, these days, it’s really a matter of ‘every man for himself.’ In terms of possibilities, we are but…
This week, pirates take over Indianapolis Opera, and a trio of plays isn’t the half of it at the Humana Festival of New American
Plays.
This Noah Grant character knows how to entertain and provide an exceptional meal.
For me, the weekend included Heartland Actors Reperory Theatre’s production of Neil LaBute’s “In a Dark Dark House,” a sneak look at the very disappointing Dreamworks 3-D animated film “Monsters vs. Aliens” (Who decided that the core emotional conflict in…
This week, pirates take over Indianapolis Opera, and a trio of plays isn’t the half of it at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. There is no logical reason for a man to be accidentally indentured to a pirate king because of a minor error…and stay on board for years. There is no logical […]
This week, pirates take over Indianapolis Opera, and a trio of plays isn’t the half of it at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. There is no logical reason for a man to be accidentally indentured to a pirate king because of a minor error…and stay on board for years. There is no logical […]
If-and, trust me, this is pure fantasy-I took Lou Grant and Ulysses S. Grant to Noah Grant’s Grill House & Raw Bar (65 S. First St., Zionsville), I believe the two would lean heavily on the grill side of the lunch menu, digging into perhaps the Steak Sandwich ($8.95), although they’d have to contend with […]
If-and, trust me, this is pure fantasy-I took Lou Grant and Ulysses S. Grant to Noah Grant’s Grill House & Raw Bar (65 S. First St., Zionsville), I believe the two would lean heavily on the grill side of the lunch menu, digging into perhaps the Steak Sandwich ($8.95), although they’d have to contend with […]
Since I first started writing about arts in Indianapolis in the mid-90s, I’ve been baffled as to why the American Cabaret Theatre offered so little traditional cabaret.
The format of cabaret is fairly simple: A singer and an accompanist (sometimes a…
Even with talk of the demise of print journalism, many of us still turn to magazines not just for information, but for pleasure. After all, you don’t see any Kindles being sold at supermarket check-out lines.
And so while they don’t…
After days of fielding questions regarding the no-show of celebrities Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel at last Friday’s opening of Indiana Live Casino, Coles Marketing Communications Inc. said today it is ending its contract with the Shelbyville casino. Barbara Coles, president of the Indianapolis public relations firm, said she had sent a notice of termination […]
Maybe I’m just being nostalgic, but having spent my formative years working at a roller coaster/bumping cards/knock-down-the-milk-bottles summer resort, I’m looking forward to seeing “Adventureland,” the upcoming comedy about amusement park workers in 1987.
It…
Days after the no-show of announced A-list celebrities Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel to the grand opening of Indiana Live Casino, questions remain as to whether organizers truly expected the star couple to attend the highly publicized event. Mark Hammerle, general manager for the Shelbyville casino, insisted this morning that he believed the stars […]
Days after the no-show of announced A-list celebrities Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel to the grand opening of Indiana Live Casino, questions remain as to whether organizers truly expected the star couple to attend the highly publicized event. Mark Hammerle, general manager for the Shelbyville casino, insisted this morning that he believed the stars actually […]
This week, the IMA celebrates design, the IRT attempts a rewritten French farce, and the Phoenix puts its stamp on “Mauritius.”
