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Theater satellite feeds help groups boost revenue

National CineMedia, the dominant player in movie video feeds, has worked with Indianapolis-based Drum Corps International and many other nonprofits to allow people to view the organizations’ live shows in a theater setting.

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You-review-it Monday

The Broad Ripple Art Fair couldn’t ask for a nicer Sunday. But that annual event is far from the only event happening this past weekend. I also caught the ISO and Indianapolis Opera joining forces on Wagner at Clowes Hall,…

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2nd In-Depth Report

Li Europan lingues es membres del sam familie. Lor separat existentie es un myth. Por scientie, musica, sport etc., li tot Europa usa li sam vocabularium. Li lingues differe solmen in li grammatica,

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Dramatic battle in Carmel

Carmel Community Players, a volunteer theater founded in 1993, has announced an ambitious season of all Pulitzer-Prize-winning
shows — even though a chunk of its funding was shot down by the Carmel Support the Arts Fund and its

performance…

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“Ben Hur”(in Latin) and more

Time to empty the arts notebook:

 –On the short list of bestsellers penned by Hoosiers is 1880’s Biblical epic “Ben Hur,” by Lew Wallace. Well, now it’s coming to the stage in London…in Latin and Aramaic. Click here for more…

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Too much contact?

Arts organizations are tweeting. Arts organizations are facebooking. Arts organizations are inviting you to post reviews on their sites. Arts organizations are asking you to participate in surveys. Arts organizations seem to be trying every way to reach out to…

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Arts bargains everywhere

It’s not just houses that are going cheap right now. So are tickets to some of Indy’s prime arts events.

–At the Indianapolis Opera site, you can land a 50% discount on tickets to this weekend’s epic collaboration between IO and…

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You-review-it Monday

For me, it was a weekend primarily focused on dance–but since that dance was the recital for Village Dance Studio, where my daughter is a ten-year vet, don’t expect a review from me.

But I will say that the army of…

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Zippy “Zoomerville” launched

It’s always a challenge staging an unknown show.

It’s even more challenging to stage an untested show.

It is far more challenging to stage an untested musical.

That’s probably why you won’t find many brand new musicals being staged here in Indianapolis. Just…

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‘thinmanlittlebird’ at the Library

In the print edition of IBJ this week, I offered my thoughts on Peter Shelton’s “thinmanlittlebird,” which now adorns the front of the Central Library. See story here.

Since that appeared,…

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Opera voting, ICO and more

Here’s more from the looking-ahead file:

–Indianapolis Opera, which has its “Das Rheingold” collaboration with the ISO coming up on the 15th, has just anounced its 2009/2010 season.

It kicks off October 2 with Indianapolis native Angela Brown in her first…

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