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Broadway in Indianapolis presents the national tour of “Dreamgirls,” Nov. 2-7 at the Murat Theatre. Details here.
 
Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre opens its season with “Once Upon a Time in India,” Oct. 29-30 at the Pike Performing Arts Center. Details here.

Butler University’s Visiting Writers Series continues with novelist/short-story writer Lorrie Moore, Nov. 1 in the Krannert Room of Clowes Hall. Details here.
 
The Phoenix Theatre presents “My Name is Asher Lev,” adapted from the Chaim Potok novel, Oct. 28-Nov. 21. Details here.
 
Dennis Bingham, associate professor of English and director of film studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI and author of the book “Whose Lives Are They Anyway?” discusses “Lives or Lies? The Truth about Biopics,” Oct. 28 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Details here.

Guests at this year’s Guilded Leaf Book & Author Luncheon Oct. 28 at the Ritz Charles include author Roy Blount Jr. Details here.

Know No Stranger presents “Optical Popsicle II,” a program of “whimsical entertainments,” Oct. 29-30 at the Athenaeum. Details (and a very fun list of discounts—including one for wearing a turtleneck) here.
 

Oct. 30
Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center

The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra is joined by University of Indianapolis faculty soloists and visiting composer William Bolcom for an evening of new works by Bolcom and others. Details here.
 

Oct. 29-Nov. 14
Cardinal Stage Company at Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington

What do you do when you have no talent but love to sing in front of an audience? If you are socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, you ignore the audiences and critics and bankroll your own music career. Cardinal Stage Company, the professional Bloomington-based up-and-coming troupe, offers the local premiere of this unusual comedy. No word if earplugs will be sold in the lobby. Details here.
 

Oct. 29
Indianapolis Museum of Art

When it comes to black and white horror films from the classic monster era, it gets no better than James Whale’s crazed sequel to the original “Frankenstein.” If you only know Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein” spoof (yes, this is the one with the blind man scene), you might be surprised how witty, well-acted and truly creepy the original is. For the Indianapolis Museum of Art screening, I’ll have the honor of providing the introduction for a film that’s long been a favorite of mine and many other old-school horror devotees. Details here.
 
 

Oct. 31
Conseco Fieldhouse

You may not hear it from most mainstream theater reviewers (who often ignore his work), but the fact is Tyler Perry may well be the most popular playwright in America. Yes, the guy who dons grandmotherly drag at the movies has proven adept at filling theaters.

Take this musical for instance, which is bypassing such tiny, tiny theaters as Clowes Hall, the Murat and IU Auditorium to, instead, play Conseco Fieldhouse. Nobody short of Cirque du Soleil can pull that off. Attention must be paid—especially if you think commercial theater is dead.

The show concerns a woman who, after finding out she has cancer, takes her family on a vacation. True to form, it includes play-to-the-rafters jokes and raise-those-same-rafters music. Details here.
 

Indianapolis police say a woman was driving drunk when she hit another car at the Marathon gas station near East 21st Street and North Mitthoeffer Road early Tuesday morning. The victim’s car hit a gas pump, knocking it from its pedestal. An automatic shut-off valve stopped a potential leak or explosion. The driver hit a second car before being arrested.

Indianapolis police think a serial robber may be responsible for two overnight robberies. A clerk at the Days Inn on Craig Street in Castleton was robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday morning. Then, a Village Pantry at 95th Street and Hague Road was robbed a few minutes later. Investigators say this is likely the same man that's been robbing businesses on the northeast side for several weeks. A man in a black truck followed the suspect, but stopped after the man started shooting at him. No one was hurt.
 

The strong line of storms that triggered tornado warnings throughout central Indiana this morning has passed, leaving behind a trail of destruction. Duke Energy reported more than 40,000 power outages across central and southern Indiana, and Indianapolis Power & Light reported nearly 16,000 in the dark. In Kokomo, the storm knocked over a house. A firefighter and his wife were inside at the time, but weren’t injured. Rescuers also spent time this morning getting a mother and her young child out of a house after a tree fell on it in Madison County. In Marion County, most of the damage is from tree limbs blowing onto vehicles or roadways. A high-wind warning is in effect until 8 p.m. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.