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Clive Barnes, the veteran New York dance and drama critic who died recently at 81, worked in Indianapolis a few years ago. In 2004 and ...

Joel Harrison, the longtime artistic director of the American Pianists Association, has taken on the additional title of president and chief executive officer. Harrison, 57, ...

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra ended its last fiscal year with a $293,000 shortfall on a $26.8 million budget, returning to a deficit situation for the ...

Ensemble Music Society, the Indianapolis chamber music presenter, has cancelled its Feb. 21 performance by the internationally known Guarneri String Quartet at the Indiana History ...

As you're out and about, are you seeing empty seats at the IRT, Civic, Theatre on the Square, Pike Performing Arts Center, Buck Creek or ...

The historical memory play "Golda's Balcony" catches up with former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir toward the end of her life. She is 80 or ...

Thomas Dunn, a nationally known choral conductor and veteran music professor retired from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music faculty, died Sunday, Oct. 26 ...

Anyone looking for a good first opera to attend might consider Gian-Carlo Menotti's "The Medium," running Nov. 12-15 at Butler University's Lilly Hall. Gian-Carlo Menotti's ...

Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre's traditional Halloween production features the premiere of a dark, clever, new commentary on the seven deadly sins. Arriving at a time ...

Internationally known concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine will give a free, public master class and lecture-recital on Saturday, Nov. 1 on the Butler University campus. ...

Winners of the 2007-08 Encore Awards were announced this week. Local theatrical productions garnering multiple awards included, but weren't limited to: -- Footlite Musicals' "Fiddler ...

A new Indianapolis theater company has offered hilarious, thought-provoking commentary about current conflicts by updating a bawdy, anti-war comedy from ancient Greece. This weekend, the ...

In Indianapolis, as in lots of places, Georg Frideric Handel's "Messiah" is an annual event, yet the baroque composer's 25 other oratorios are sorely neglected. ...

Expressiveness dominated Elizabeth Joy Roe's recital and concerto program at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on Sunday, as part of the first phase of the ...

It's not every day that two gifted women debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, but that was definitely the case this week, even though both ...

Dance Kaleidoscope kicks off its 2008-09 season with an uplifting program of dance that takes shape and derives inspiration from Latin music. "Musica Latina" showcases ...

Out of the mouths of puppets emerges one of the most mature American musicals ever made, incredible as that may seem. Staged against a backdrop ...

Spotlight Players opens its 10th season in a promising new space with a red-hot production of "12 Angry Men." The Beech Grove community theater, newly ...

About a dozen theatergoers showed up for the Sept. 28 Sunday matinee of American Cabaret Theatre's "Solid Gold Soul," only to find ACT closed. There ...

Indianapolis Opera opens a new season with one of the freshest, most vibrant productions it has offered in years, largely with a cast making company ...

The Theater Within has canceled its production of "Wit" that had been scheduled for the first two weekends in October. Rod Isaac, artistic director, said ...

Phoenix Theatre has extended the run of "November" for a week, through Oct. 18. David Mamet's comic political satire is about an unpopular President, desperate ...

Nov. 10 is the deadline for the Carmel Symphony Orchestra's 2009 Young Artists Concerto Competition. To enter, instrumentalists must be students up to grade 12, ...

Delays in the installation of the new pipe organ at Hilbert Circle Theatre have sparked two program changes in the Indianapolis Symphony's Oct. 17-18 Classical ...

Michael Toulouse, evening classical music host on WFYI-FM 90.1, will sign off to become the new programming director of the Fine Arts Society. The 43-year-old ...

The U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus will give a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Pike Performing Arts Center, 6701 ...

As he launched the American Pianists Association's 2009 Classical Fellowship Awards Sunday at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Michael Kirkendoll played contemporary works that could ...

Check out an upcoming recital by Marilyn Keiser, concert organist recently retired from the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington. ...

Governments are having a tough time getting the economy to grow these days, but Audrey II, the ever-expanding plant in the musical "Little Shop of ...

The criminal world was alluring enough to sustain British detective Sherlock Holmes through more than 50 of Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories, as well as ...