June 20, 2022
Coming off their successful May run of “Twelfth Night,” founder Marcia-Eppich Harris’s Southbank Theatre Company continues to make its presence known as an exciting new addition to the Indy theatre landscape. Showing flair once again, the neophyte group presents “Marie Antoinette & The Magical Negroes,”... read more
October 9, 2020
Before the February 28 opening of “The Agitators” at Phoenix Theatre, I first began communicating with Bob Lehman, who, at that time, was the new director of marketing at the theatre. On September 1, he was promoted to an expanded role of director of sales... read more
June 15, 2020
In the aftermath of the protests against racism and George Floyd’s horrendous murder, it is clear that demanded changes and reforms, if implemented, will have a lasting effect on our country and the status quo. Theatre, has always been in the vanguard of change for... read more
October 21, 2019
History was made Friday at the grand opening of Fonseca Theatre Company‘s new home in the Basile Building at 2508 W. Michigan Street, located in the Haughville neighborhood on Indy’s West Side. Less than a year and a half following his departure from Phoenix Theatre,... read more
September 4, 2019
When I heard the new Storefront Theatre of Indianapolis was opening in the Broad Ripple neighborhood on Indy’s far northeast side, my interest was immediately piqued because in the early 80s, I acted in plays directed by Fonseca Theatre Company founder and artistic director Bryan... read more
July 16, 2019
During his 40 years as a producer, Bryan Fonseca has always had his ear to the ground when it comes to social issues and timely, controversial subject matter that others have ignored or shied away from. And specifically, when it comes to people of color... read more
February 23, 2019
When Bryan Fonseca, whose role as producing director of Phoenix Theatre ended about a month after the grand opening of its new space, he hit the ground running and founded Fonseca Theatre Company. The new theatre group launched on Indy’s Westside with a production of... read more
May 7, 2018
When thinking about how I would preview Kurt Vonnegut’s “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,” the debut production, opening May 11, of the brand-new Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center, located at 705 N. Illinois Street in Indianapolis, one person came to mind almost immediately. One of my... read more
