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City seeking redevelopment ideas for IRT building
Built in 1927, the city-owned landmark has served as the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s home for 35 years. The city and the not-for-profit are working on a lease renewal.
Built in 1927, the city-owned landmark has served as the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s home for 35 years. The city and the not-for-profit are working on a lease renewal.
Sparks fly because these people’s different experiences—the lives they’ve led, choices they’ve made, and ways they’ve opted to remember and/or forget their pasts—actually conflict.
A wordless “Peter Pan,” pianists in competition, and a musical “Idiot” among potential highlights in coming months.
The IRT is aiming for a younger audience, staging James Still’s adaptation of Margery Williams' classic children's book "The Velveteen Rabbit" for the preschool set in its underused cabaret space.
If the team behind “The Circus in Winter” has its way (and if enough money can be raised and script kinks worked out), the Ball State University-incubated musical might be the first Tony award winner conceived as a collaborative class project.
Nearly four years after the Center for the Performing Arts’ Carmel high-profile debut, its second full-time CEO says the startup has stabilized operations and is ready to grow its eclectic mix of programming.
Indianapolis singer Josh Kaufman said Thursday he'll be taking a turn as the lead in the Tony Award-winning revival "Pippin."
Steven Stolen, a former managing director of the Indiana Repertory Theatre, will work as an independent contractor for 25-30 hours per week until the target Oct. 1 completion of the evaluation.
Disney destroyed Broadway. Disney saved Broadway. You hear both sides.
Reviews of “The Realistic Joneses,” “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” “Les Miserables,” and “Violet.”
I’m not usually big on anniversary stories, but the fact that the Cabaret’s creative gamble paid off—and that its first half-decade has brought so much pleasure—warrants a birthday shout out.
Reviews of Eclectic Pond’s “The Comedy of Errors” and IndyShakes/Wisdom Tooth’s “The Winter’s Tale.”
Before he was a literary icon, Vonnegut was a struggling writer finding his voice through short stories. Three are woven together into the play “Who Am I This Time?”
Broadway’s “Ragtime,” Butler’s “Lamentations,” and two Icemen among half a century of theater-going highlights
“The Circus in Winter,” which began its theatrical life as a student project, is headed for an East Coast theater considered a stepping stone to Broadway.
The national tour of “Wicked” continues to draw crowds to the Murat Theatre, where it runs through Dec. 1. If you’ve already seen it this time around, you might be wondering what to do now to maintain your Elphaba fix until the show flies back into town in a few years.
Plus season openering reviews for “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” at the Phoenix and NoExit’s “Big Bad Wolf.”
Exceptional production values stand out from rest of an unfocused production. Fun added by brief 3D sequence.
Wrapping up Sunday, the 11-day performing arts festival downtown sold a total of 17,286 tickets for the 64 productions mounted.
Disney’s latest stage show effectively captures the charm of the animated movie classic while also broadening its artistic focus, making it sumptuously theatrical.