South Bend Theatre Newsroom

Fans of Jazz and Melinda DeRocker and her Jazz Trio are being offered two incredible opportunities. 

Actors Theatre of Indiana has announced the lineup for their 19th season of Broadway in Your Backyard. The 2023-24 season will bring back familiar events and be full of shows that will have you dancing in the aisle and enjoying some laughs.

Two visiting artists from Jelgava, Latvia - Kristina Landaua Junkere and Raitis Junkers - will be exhibiting their talents at the 26th Annual Carmel International Arts Festival on September 23 and 24 in the Carmel Arts & Design District. Jelgava is one of Carmel’s five sister cities.

Join the South Bend Symphony Orchestra for the opening of their 91st Season featuring Silk Road + Strauss. This incredible performance includes percussionist Joseph Gramley and the United States premiere of Malek Jandali's Symphony No. 6, The Desert Rose. Don't miss out on this captivating evening of music at the Morris Performing Arts Center.

To celebrate the release of A Collective Cy, the Feinstein's concert will feature highlights from Coleman's legendary musicals Sweet Charity (“My Personal Property,” “If My Friends Could See Me Now”), Seesaw (“My City,“ “I'm Way Ahead”), and City of Angels (“With Every Breath I Take”), plus little-known songs like “So Little Time” (cut from Barnum).

The Central Indiana Dance Ensemble has invited audiences to be a part of their 3rd Annual CIDE TopGolf Fundraiser! This event will take place from noon to 3 pm on Sunday, September 24.

On Friday, September 15, Feinstein's at The Hotel Carmichael welcomes to their stage Ann Hampton Callaway, one of the leading champions of the Great American Songbook, for a 7:30 pm show.

The South Bend Symphony Orchestra announced an additional concert for the Indiana Trust Pops Series HarryPotter and the Sorcerer's Stone in Concert on Sunday, October 8, 2023 as part of the Harry Potter Film Concert Series at the Morris Performing Arts Center. The concert will feature the South Bend Symphony Orchestra in performing live, to picture, every note from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Ryan Ahlwardt is an Emmy-nominated host of central Indiana's most watched lifestyle show - Indy Now - on FOX 59. He is a singer, songwriter, arranger and alumnus of the world-renowned ten-man acapella singing group Straight No Chaser. He has shared the stage and studio with such artists as The Beach Boys, Barry Manilow, Shania Twain, Sara Bareilles, Jon McLaughlin, Take 6 and more.

The Carmel International Arts Festival is set to return to the Carmel Arts & Design District Saturday, September 23 and Sunday, September 24, 2023. As always, the art of music is a huge part of this annual festival. There will be multiple stages again this year, along with entertainment at ART ROCKS, the Saturday evening family celebration portion of the Arts Festival.

The American Theatre Guild, with ASM Global and the King Center, is pleased to announce that single tickets for the national tour of A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS LIVE ON STAGE are on sale now. This production is part of the 23–24 BROADWAY AT THE KING CENTER SERIES and will skate onto the King Center for the Performing Arts, L3Harris Technologies Theatre Main Stage Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 3:00 p.m.

Art 4, a professional musical theatre company based in South Bend, IN, presents the 8-time Tony Award-winning musical, Spring Awakening. Spring Awakening performs at the St. Joe County Public Library (SJCPL) as a continuation of SJCPL's and Art 4's partnership to produce 3 fully staged musicals in 2023 at the newly constructed Leighton Auditorium.

The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival has announced Hamlet 50/50, a new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic drama, performing August 17-27, 2023 in the beautiful Patricia George Decio Theatre at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. 

Dr. Marvin V. Curtis will make history as the first African American to assume the role of Board President, leading the South Bend Symphony Orchestra into its 91st Season effective July 1.

From Burlesque to a drag brunch with a bit of Liza and Liberace thrown in, it will be another fantastic week at Feinstein's at The Hotel Carmichael in Carmel, IN.

The Academy of Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre is offering two Open House events to provide an opportunity for prospective dancers to see what the school is all about. The two Open House events will be at the academy's location at 329 Gradle Drive in Carmel, IN. 

You may remember Wayne Powers as the cop on Laverne & Shirley or from starring in his own sitcom, 13 East on NBC for two seasons. Powers also performed in countless other roles during his twenty-year network television career. 

This week enjoy a captivating evening with Broadway Star Samantha Pauly, a Sinatra Tribute with local performing favorite Don Farrell, and a Birthday Brunch with Jazz Musician Blair Clark.  

The summer heats up as the Indiana University Department of Theatre & Dance presents the 2023 IU Summer Theatre production of Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine's contemporary classic about timeless storybook characters whose wishes come true, for better or worse.

This week enjoy dueling pianos and an evening of magic on the stage of Feinstein's at Hotel Carmichael in Carmel, IN.

The Festival will feature more than 30 acts – including some of the best bands in the business, headlined by Spyro Gyra and featuring nationally celebrated talents such as Evelyn Champagne King, Dave Bennett Quartet, Freddie Fox and Tim Cunningham.

​​​​​​​ Actors Theatre of Indiana will bring Million Dollar Quartet back to The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel this month. For two nights only, Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17, Million Dollar Quartet will come alive onstage at The Palladium.

Gregory Glade Hancock and the Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre will be producing The Music of La Casa Azul with The Carmel Symphony Orchestra for one night only! This amazing performance, created by Gregory Glade Hancock himself, is August 5, 2023 at 7 pm at The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

South Bend Symphony String Quartet and vocalist Abbie Thomas will take the stage for 'Hits Through the Decades,' a unique, interactive concert at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 28, at the Bendix Arena (inside the Century Center).

Already home to The Great American Songbook Foundation, Carmel, Indiana is continuing to preserve the legacy of timeless music with the inaugural Carmel Jazz Fest taking place August 11 and 12, 2023.