(09/19/2011) - GUYS AND DOLLS, the Tony Award-winning musical comedy featuring one of the great musical scores in the history of American theatre, comes to Theatre at the Center, September 15 through October 16, 2011.
(09/06/2011) - The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the opening of Spring Awakening, with
music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics and book by Steven Sater, Thursday, September 22, 2011, on the Phoenix Mainstage. The musical plays through Sunday, October 23, 2011.
(08/29/2011) - On Saturday August 27, 2011, BroadwayWorld.com's CEO/Editor-in-Chief Robert Diamond, in the midst of Hurricane Irene married actress Jennifer Hallie Rosen after a 17 month engagement. The two were introduced by a friend of Rosen's, who wasn't able to make the wedding, as a result of the weather and warnings throughout all the boroughs. The BroadwayWorld.com News Desk stayed feverish all weekend while the couple said 'I Do', as news was coming fast about theatre cancellations, schedule changes and travel advisories in addition to all things that were happening in other parts of the country and the world, not affected by the Northeast's local weather.
(07/22/2011) - The Buck Creek Players will wrap up their 37th season 'From Page to Stage' with their fourth biennial Play-A-Part Fundraiser of the hit musical, Annie, sponsored in part by The Friends of Bill Hall.
(07/15/2011) - The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the Midwest Premiere of With A Bang by Pete McElligott, a darkly comedic tale about an imminent apocalypse and whether one person, in this case our heroine Margaret, can save the world by finishing a mythological book started by her father.
(07/08/2011) - The Broadway smash hit musical THE WIZ, with book by William F. Brown and music by Charlie Smalls, will blow audiences away July 7 through August 7, 2011 at Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana. The production will open Sunday, July 10 at 7 p.m. Stacey Flaster will direct and choreograph. THE WIZ first opened on Broadway in 1975 and ran for four years (1600 performances). It made a historic footprint as the first large-scale big-budget musical featuring an all-African American cast. THE WIZ won seven Tony Awards including Best Musical and was produced in 1978 by Motown/Universal as a film starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Lena Horne, and Richard Pryor.
(06/29/2011) - The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the Midwest Premiere of With A Bang by Pete McElligott, a darkly comedic tale about an imminent apocalypse and whether one person, in this case our heroine Margaret, can save the world by finishing a mythological book started by her father.
(06/02/2011) - The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces Avenue Q, opening June 2 and playing through July 10, 2011 on the Phoenix Mainstage. Avenue Q, with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and original story by Jeff Whitty, opened off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre in March 2003, where it gained rave reviews, and was extended four times. The Phoenix is the first regional, professional theatre to produce Avenue Q, winner of the 2004 Tony for Best Musical, with a local professional cast and crew.
(05/13/2011) - The Buck Creek Players will continue their 2010-2011 season 'From Page to Stage' with the Indianapolis Premiere of Frankenstein: A New Musical. Opening Friday, June 3, and running for three weekends through Sunday, June 19, curtain times will be at 8:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, with 2:30 p.m. matinees offered on Sunday.
(05/12/2011) - It's the delightful story that has entertained families for generations and proved any girl can be a princess. This spring, Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic Cinderella as the Family Show of its 38th Season.
(05/02/2011) - The latest addition to the hilarious NUNSENSE series of musicals is Playwright and Composer Dan Goggin's NUNSET BOULEVARD, THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL SHOW.
(04/27/2011) - The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the return of The Zippers of Zoomerville, or 200 Laps and a Lass: a mini-mockeretta from April 28 through May 28, 2011 in the Frank & Katrina Basile Theatre. The book and lyrics are by Jack O'Hara, and the music is by Jack O'Hara and Tim Brickley.
(04/25/2011) - The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the return of The Zippers of Zoomerville, or 200 Laps and a Lass: a mini-mockeretta from April 28 through May 28, 2011 in the Frank & Katrina Basile Theatre.
(04/13/2011) - Jack Milo may have graced the silver screen several times in the past 15 years, but he's currently in Indianapolis at a venue he's known even longer: Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre.
(03/16/2011) - The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the Midwest Premiere of This, by Melissa James Gibson, opening Thursday, March 31, 2011 on the Phoenix Mainstage and playing through Sunday, April 24, 2011.
(02/28/2011) - This is the story of two dangerously smart teenagers and the teacher struggling to help them with humor and compassion. The Storytelling Ability of a Boy by Carter W. Lewis March 3-27 in the Frank and Katrina Basile Theatre. February 3-27 on the Phoenix Mainstage. To order tickets: www.phoenixtheatre.org or 317-635-7529.
(01/28/2011) - Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre presents the big fat Broadway blockbuster Hairspray for the first time this season. The fun and fabulous eight-time Tony Award-winning show is on stage for eight big weeks - Feb. 3 through March 27.
(01/20/2011) - The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the Midwest Premiere of Goldie, Max and Milk, by Karen Hartman, a comedy about single motherhood that opens Thursday, February 3, 2011 on the Phoenix Theatre Mainstage and plays through Sunday, February 27, 2011.
(01/06/2011) - NORWAY opens January 6, 2011 at the Phoenix Theatre. The play, by Samuel D. Hunter, is about a young man lost and the two people who try and save him: The confidante who believes in him, the father who wants to control him, and he is the son caught in between.
(12/03/2010) - Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre presents the timeless Charles Dickens story, A Christmas Carol, in a special one-hour music-filled production of this classic on stage from Dec. 4-20.
(11/15/2010) - The second national tour of Tony award-winning musical SPRING AWAKENING has just kicked off, and photos from the production are posted below! Based on the 1891 Frank Wedekind play, the landmark musical is a stirring combination of sexuality, morality and rock & roll that is captivating audiences across the nation like no other musical in years. SPRING AWAKENING features an award-winning and evocative story with a score by Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Steven Sater, and original direction and choreography by Michael Mayer and Bill T. Jones, respectively.
(11/12/2010) - In his incomparable style, Meredith Willson, the author of The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, tells the classic story of a white-bearded gentleman, claiming to be the real-deal Santa Claus, as he produces a genuine holiday miracle in It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas. The musical adaptation of the popular holiday favorite 'Miracle on 34th Street' will bring holiday cheer to Theatre at the Center's 20th Anniversary, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana, November 11 through December 19, with the press performance on Sunday, November 14 at 7 p.m. The production will be directed by William Pullinsi.
(11/10/2010) - The 2010-2011 National Tour of A CHORUS LINE had a very special audience member on Saturday, November 6: original star Donna McKechnie. McKechnie, who created the role of 'Cassie' in the original Broadway production, was in South Bend, IN for the weekend performing her acclaimed solo show 'My Musical Comedy Life.'
(11/02/2010) - Theatre at the Center's 2010- 2011 Theatre For Young Audiences Season continues with the live musical play version of the traditional holiday favorite, The Story of the Nutcracker, introducing kids to the classic music of Tchaikovsky. Join the fun in this traditional holiday tale about a young girl, Marie, and her very favorite Christmas present, the Nutcracker, November 29 through December 13. Theatre at the Center's Theatre for Young Audiences is located at 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana.
(10/15/2010) - The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis continues its 2010-2011 season with My Name is Asher Lev, a play by Aaron Posner adapted from the visionary best-selling novel by Chaim Potok.
(09/29/2010) - 2010 Tony-nominee and Pulitzer Prize-finalist In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) illuminates the lives of six lonely people seeking relief from a local doctor-but, all they really need is intimacy.
(09/29/2010) - The fighting isn't real, but it needs to look like it is in Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre's production of Camelot.
It isn't as easy as it may look, said Adam Noble, assistant professor of movement at Indiana University's Department of Theatre and Drama, who choreographed the combat in the production.
(09/28/2010) - Stunning costumes by the creative design team of Michael Bottari and Ronald Case have been worn by many famous actors in nearly as many theatrical productions from Broadway to national tours. This fall, their work is showcased in Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre's production of the Lerner and Loewe classic, Camelot.
(09/20/2010) - The uproarious musical masterpiece, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, by composer and lyricist David Yazbek and librettist Jeffery Lane, makes its Regional premiere at Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, IN, September 9 through October 10. The press performance will be Thursday, September 16 at 8 p.m. The Tony Award Winning smash hit consistently delivers; Clive Barnes of the New York Post raves DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS is 'A knockout punch to Broadway's funny bone! One of the liveliest, funniest, best-performed musicals in years. Super-smart and superior in every way.' This production will be directed by Bill Pullinsi and choreographed by Stacey Flaster.
(09/13/2010) - The uproarious musical masterpiece, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, by composer and lyricist David Yazbek and librettist Jeffery Lane, makes its Regional premiere at Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, IN, September 9 through October 10.
(09/09/2010) - 2010 Tony-nominee and Pulitzer Prize-finalist In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) illuminates the lives of six lonely people seeking relief from a local doctor-but, all they really need is intimacy. It's a tender tale that takes place in the twilight of the Victorian age, an elegant comedy lit by unexpected sparks from the approaching era of electricity, equality, science and sexuality.
(08/10/2010) - The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces the remounting of a recent World Premiere: Pure Prine: The Music of John Prine. Conceived and directed by Phoenix Producing Director Bryan Fonseca, this musical presentation is being brought back to the Phoenix Mainstage for a full run, opening Thursday, August 19, 2010. Barnes & Thornburg is sponsoring Pure Prine: The Music of John Prine.
(07/13/2010) - JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, the Tony Award nominated, groundbreaking theatrical masterpiece by legendary writing team Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, will be playing only at Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, IN, July 8 through August 8.
(07/09/2010) - JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, the Tony Award nominated, groundbreaking theatrical masterpiece by legendary writing team Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, will be playing only at Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, IN, July 8 through August 8. The press performance will be July 11. The first collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to be performed on the professional stage, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is one of the most popular and enduring works ever created for the musical theatre. The production will star Jeff Award Winner Max Quinlan as 'Jesus' and will be Directed and Choreographed by Stacey Flaster.
