Not content with just catching a show at the Kennedy Center, first lady Michelle Obama made a clear statement with this week’s trip to New York: She sees value in the arts and is interested in promoting them.
And not just mass appeal…
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.
This week, art in the wind and an original musical.
The Hoosier Lottery has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit filed by eight black former employees who claim racial
discrimination motivated their firing four years ago.
Some of Indianapolis’ main entrances from Interstate 70 are in line for a $2 million makeover.
Iran is a magnificent and historically important country. It contains nine World Historical Sites as designated by UNESCO. Only 20 countriesâ??including Greece, China and Italyâ??have more.
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,…
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,
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…
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…
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…
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…
Because secondhand smoke is a longer-term health threat—rather than something quick like the flu or food poisoning—too
much of society, including the media, overlooks its danger with nary a second glance.
In the big picture of Indianapolis, we should never
forget that the Speedway and its events—the Indy 500 in particular—remain the 800-pound gorilla in our little corner of the
world.
With a fading classic car painted on the side of the building, Rock Cola 50’s Cafe looks a lot older than its 16 years. But
that’s the idea.
This week, two community theater productions reinforce my decision not to give
"star" ratings.
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…
Ma quande lingues coalesce, t va semblar un simplificat Angles, quam un skeptic Cambridge amico dit me que Occidental es.
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…
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,…
