June 9, 2026
Steve Hackman, one of today’s most innovative crossover musicians, walked onstage and skipped the playlist. Instead of presenting a stop-and-start run of hits, the conductor-composer led the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra through Taylor Swift: The Symphony Era, performed straight through except for a brief intermission in... read more
June 1, 2026
Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre is presenting Rodgers & Hammerstein’s beloved musical Cinderella, with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and a score by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. I saw the production on Saturday. The plot of Cinderella is familiar: a young woman... read more
May 23, 2026
In its first full-length staging of the ballet Romeo & Juliet, set to Sergei Prokofiev’s score and based on William Shakespeare’s play about two young lovers from feuding families whose secret love leads to tragedy, Indiana Ballet Conservatory took on an ambitious work and delivered... read more
May 20, 2026
How did someone as talented as Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, end up nearly forgotten? In The Chevalier, Bill Barclay brought the composer and violin virtuoso to life onstage. Presented by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra under maestro Matthew Kraemer at the Madam Walker Theatre,... read more
May 14, 2026
Indiana Ballet Conservatory (IBC) will debut its first full-length Romeo & Juliet May 22–23 at The Tarkington Theater (Payne Mencias Allied Center for the Performing Arts) in Carmel, with a May 30 tour stop at Eagles Theatre in Wabash. The production is part of... read more
May 7, 2026
The National Tour of Disney’s Beauty & the Beast, presented by Broadway in Indianapolis, opened Tuesday at the Murat Theatre in the Old National Centre in Indianapolis. Based on the 1991 Academy Award®-winning animated feature film, Beauty and the Beast premiered on Broadway in 1994... read more
May 7, 2026
Among all the annual performances I cover, the Kids Dance Outreach Event of the Year remains one of my top picks. This year’s Breaking Ground continued the tradition, surpassing previous events. I attended the Friday show at The Howard Schrott Center for the Performing... read more
May 5, 2026
I spent my weekend joyfully immersed in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: on Saturday, I saw Catalyst Repertory Theatre‘s Amadeus (see my review here) a fictional play about his life, and, coincidentally, on Sunday, Indianapolis Opera staged The Marriage of Figaro at the Toby Theatre at Newfields.... read more
