LOU'S VIEWS: Three long-running holiday shows offer degrees of variation
Tradition, by definition, involves familiarity. And three of the top Indy on-stage holiday offerings embrace tradition in their own way.
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: 2012 A&E favorites
With so much to choose from, it's impossible to say what was best. Instead, here are some of my favorites of the year.
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: Hoosier writers' novels transcend novelty
Recently, I dug into the books of three Indiana writers who beat the odds.
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: Team playing from ensemble highlights IRT's 'Night Music'
Opera star Sylvia McNair offers subtle take on "Send in the Clowns."
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: A critical mass of theater critics descend on Indy
A pack of conferencing critics had their eyes opened to Indy’s arts pleasures. In turn, they opened my eyes to some things I shouldn’t take for granted.
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: Going back for seconds … or more
The IRT's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the Phoenix' "Clybourne Park" offer pleasures whether you are seeing these plays for the first or fifth time.
View ArticleIRT's Stolen to exit in swell of arts group departures
Managing Director Steven Stolen will leave the repertory theater for a position with Rocketship Education. Other local performing arts executives stepping down are John Pickett of the Indianapolis...
View ArticleDramatic rehiring as IRT fills Stolen spot
Suzanne Sweeney has decided to stay at the Indiana Repertory Theatre as managing director, a few days before she was supposed to start a new job at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: Indiana Repertory Theatre finds what's crucial in 'The Crucible'
Plus season openering reviews for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" at the Phoenix and NoExit's "Big Bad Wolf."
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: 50 years, 50 shows
Broadway's "Ragtime," Butler's "Lamentations," and two Icemen among half a century of theater-going highlights
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: IRT triple play shows gentle side of Vonnegut
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?"
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: Dramatically different plays
The IRT's "Other Desert Cities" and Acting Up's "A Streetcar Named Desire" demonstrate how casting choices influence a play's impact.
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: Pulpit fiction
Three spring theater productions address the ecclesiastical. Thoughts on "The Mountaintop," "The Christians," and "Anything Goes."
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: No mystery why IRT closes season with whodunit
Sure-footed and with no real desire to explore new territory, Ken Ludwig's 'The Game's Afoot,' grafts a fictional mystery onto a real-life actor.
View ArticleIRT and NoExit season announcements shine
I'm not talking about the shows they've selected, but the promos they created.
View ArticleIndianapolis Opera hires Stolen to help assess future
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.
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: Seeing ‘Red’ at the IRT
Factual and fictional threads weave through John Logan Tony-winning Best Play about artist Mark Rothko. The Indiana Repertory Theatre stages its local premiere
View Article‘Velveteen’ at IRT lures next generation of theatergoers
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.
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: Great A&E expectations with 15 high-hopes picks for 2015
A wordless "Peter Pan," pianists in competition, and a musical "Idiot" among potential highlights in coming months.
View ArticleLOU'S VIEWS: More than good, ‘Good People’ marks IRT season high point
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.
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