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American Cabaret vets launch new production company. First show to celebrate “Classic Soul.”
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LOU’S VIEWS: Best-selling author’s words take center stage
Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park launches novelist Walter Mosley’s first play,"The Fall of Heaven," just in time for my cultural road trip.
LOU’S VIEWS: Race colors IRT’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Shakespeare’s iconic show gets a post-WWII redo.
Scoop: ‘Office’ worker to perform at Cabaret
Malora Hardin–Jan from “The Office”–just booked for The Cabaret.
Kerasotes planning to sell theaters to AMC
Kerasotes, the nation’s sixth-largest movie house chain, has four theaters in the Indianapolis area; AMC, the No. 2 player, has two.
LOU’S VIEWS: ‘Love Letters’ requires reading between the lines
Indiana Repertory Theatre gives a rare, full staging of A.R. Gurney’s epistolary play.
LOU’S VIEWS: Oh Christmas plays, oh Christmas plays
Holiday season staples take the stages at the Indiana Repertory Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre.
Cabaret Theatre moving to downtown’s Columbia Club
The troupe will relocate from its temporary location at the Connoisseur Room in time to present a holiday show that runs Dec. 10-12.
Financial flexibility drew Civic Theatre to Carmel center
The Indianapolis Civic Theatre could take as long as 20 years to pay the $10 million fee it agreed to as part of a deal to
relocate to the state-of-the-art Regional Performing Arts Center in Carmel.
Your thoughts on Civic’s Carmel move
The 95-year-old Indianapolis staple will uproot for new performing arts center.
Civic Theatre confirms plans to relocate to Carmel
Indianapolis Civic Theatre will move from the campus of Marian University to the Regional Performing Arts Center under construction
in Carmel. The theater and Carmel Redevelopment Commission released a joint statement Tuesday announcing a long-term deal
that calls for the Civic to pay $10 million to be the center’s primary occupant.
You-review-it Monday
For me, “Enter Love” at the Cabaret, Walter Knabe at the Evan Lurie Gallery, and more. And for you?
LOU’S VIEWS: A brave new preteen world at IRT
This week, the young adult best-seller “The Giver” is staged at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. Plus some thoughts on school
field trips.
Casting controversy for B’way “Miracle Worker”
Should deaf or blind actor be playing Helen Keller?
LOU’S VIEWS: Phoenix show shipshape/Marxing time in Chicago
The Phoenix Theatre’s “Shipwrecked!” and “Animal Crackers” at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre offer two kinds of stage pleasures.
Review: “King Lear”
Actors from the London Stage (that’s the group’s name) tackle Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy.
LOU’S VIEWS: Quality time on the Fringe
By definition, the non-juried IndyFringe festival has a crapshoot quality. My advice to new Fringe-goers is usually to
go to at least three shows and be fully prepared to hate at least one of them.
Artists expanding presence in western suburbs
Several arts groups are expanding their presence in Hendricks County, undeterred by tight budgets and a perception that residents
need to travel to Indianapolis for cultural offerings.
LOU’S VIEWS: In ‘Smoke on the Mountain,’ Sanders family shines
This week, more smoke on the same mountain at Beef & Boards and time going slowly at the Phoenix.