Phoenix Theatre casts $1M gift for new downtown complex
The gift from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation gets the theater closer to its $8.5 million goal for funding construction of a new home on North Illinois Street.
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Phoenix Theatre raises $5.1M toward new complex
Officials said Wednesday they are launching a capital campaign to raise the final 40 percent of their fundraising goal. They also unveiled designs for the project by Indianapolis-based Ratio Architects.
Head of Carmel performing arts center to depart for Chicago
Over her four-year stay, Tania Castroverde Moskalenko has helped stabilize the sprawling arts organization and find a sustainable mix of programming.
Indiana Repertory Theatre inks 10-year extension to stay downtown
The theater’s new 10-year lease for the 1927 city-owned landmark on West Washington Street hands management duties to IRT and includes an option to renew for another 10 years.
Two founding partners in ComedySportz exit stage right
Two of the three partners who established the local franchise of the improv-comedy theater have decided to sell their shares to new players.
Longtime nightclub known for drag shows closing
Talbott Street Nightclub, which opened in 2002 on the city’s near-north side, announced it will quit serving patrons June 25.
LOU’S VIEWS: Buck Creek Players aims high—and hits—with ‘Assassins’
“Hamilton” isn’t the first bold, rule-breaking musical that looks at America’s past in a fresh way.
LOU’S VIEWS: Zack Neiditch and Zach Rosing playfully tweak local theater
The duo has built a reputation as innovative independent producers and a go-to, work-for-hire team that actors hunger to work with.
LOU’S VIEWS: Stunning production could change fate of actor Chris Stack
Indy native featured in Goodman Theatre’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s underappreciated American classic.
Madame Walker Theatre names interim leader
Anita Harden, retired president of Community Hospital East, will guide the local cultural organization while it evaluates its long-term strategy.
Athenaeum receives Basile gift to help fund $1.2M in theater repairs
Local philanthropists Frank and Katrina Basile have contributed $225,000 toward a fundraising campaign for renovating the theater, which will be renamed for the couple.
LOU’S VIEWS: Civil warriors clash–and team up–in Phoenix Theatre’s “Butler”
The best legal thriller I’ve seen in years, Richard Strand’s “Butler” doesn’t venture anywhere near a courtroom, judge’s chamber or jury room.
Phoenix Theatre moving from longtime home by Mass Ave
The purveyor of contemporary plays and musicals plans to leave the popular cultural district, where patrons now struggle to find street parking, for three properties on North Illinois Street.
Live Nation’s deal to buy Old National Centre unravels
The group that owns the landmark entertainment and hospitality venue in downtown Indianapolis has decided not to sell the building after Live Nation made an offer late last year.
Butler corrals performing venues under new executive director
The hiring of Texas arts administrator Ty Sutton is part of a strategy to streamline ticketing and booking at campus venues and enhance Butler’s presence as an arts destination.
Theater at Fort Benjamin Harrison finds new life
This October, the 86-year-old theater will come to life again. A collaboration between a local arts organization, Partnerships for Lawrence, and the city of Lawrence, which is paying for repairs, is making it possible.
LOU’S VIEWS: When musicals rock
Plus ten written-for-musicals songs that you can play in the company of your rocker friends.
LOU’S VIEWS: Youth theater breaks rules and invents new ones
You don’t send your kids to Young Actors Theatre to turn them into stars. You send them to foster a love of creating.
LOU’S VIEWS: Laugh-a-lot ‘Spamalot’ gets ambitious Civic production
You could feel that split between those who knew what would be catapulted over the French castle wall and those baffled, at least at first, by what all the silliness was about.
LOU’S VIEWS: Romance rules at the IRT for ‘What I Learned in Paris’ and ‘Ray and Ella’
Lou Harry reviews Indiana Repertory Theatre’s production of “What I Learned in Paris” (through April 12) and Dance Kaleidoscope’s “Ray & Ella.”