22.Apr.2010 Design Concepts for AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Kevin Depinet Scenic Designer From the beginning, the director and I wanted to incorporate the exotic and foreign nature of the Indiana Theatre’s existing architecture into the set. The red walls of the theatre evoke a Victorian sensibility that could easily represent Fogg’s home or even an exotic temple in Bombay. The set echoes the [...]
21.Jan.2010 The Designers
Notes from the designers of IRT’s 2010 production of Romeo and Juliet Gordon R. Strain Scenic Designer Romeo and Juliet was one of the first Shakespeare plays I read. We read it in high school English and then watched the Zeffirelli film. Several years later, I remember viewing and enjoying the Baz Luhrmann film. I have since re-read [...]
17.Jan.2010 The 1949 Dodge
06.Jan.2010 The Dodge Meadowbrook Story Begins
Actually, this Dodge Meadowbrook’s story began with its manufacture in the early fifties, but now it’s embarking on a new adventure at the Indiana Repertory Theatre as part of the set for WellPoint presents William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Read about the car in this Sunday’s (January 10) Indianapolis Star. We’ll have further details, including [...]
14.Dec.2009 Now playing at IRT: Renoir
IRT’s production of A.R. Gurney’s LOVE LETTERS has begun previews (get your tickets here!). Sharing the stage with Priscilla Lindsay and Patrick Clear is a work by Pierre Auguste Renoir called Sketch after Danse à Bougival. The work, a “sketch” by the artist from this larger work, was chosen by director Janet Allen and scenic [...]
20.Nov.2009 Snow Forecast 2009 part 3: TV Coverage
17.Nov.2009 Snow Forecast 2009 Part 2
The skilled artisans of IRT have once again defied nature and created a frozen icescape on the Mainstage. 24 or so 25-pound bags of shredded plastic bags have been dumped onstage to form snowdrifts of formidable proportions. More bags of wintery wonder will be added throughout the next month as the ersatz snowflakes find their [...]
13.Nov.2009 Snow Forecast 2009 Part 1
There’s gonna be snow – lots of it – at IRT this year. For the thirteenth year in a row, the IRT Mainstage will be covered in heaps and heaps of stage snow for its annual production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This year’s production is sponsored by St Vincent Health. Though it creates [...]
12.Nov.2009 What’s the story with this car?
This car is on its way to the IRT. You’ll find out why very soon!
28.Oct.2009 A Christmas Carol: Production Team
Priscilla Lindsay Director A favorite at the IRT for 33 of its 38 seasons, Priscilla most recently played Nan in Rabbit Hole. Among her more than 50 roles at the IRT are the title roles of Shirley Valentine, Driving Miss Daisy, and Molly Sweeney, as well as Sister Aloysius in Doubt, Mrs. Gibbs in Our [...]