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Indianapolis Star
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
'Great Gatsby' and 'Scarlet Letter' are on Civic Theatre's new season
Classic literature and drama form the backbone of Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre's new season. Kicking off the season in October is "Something Rotten" — a musical comedy that plays on connections to William Shakespeare's work and even makes the iconic playwright himself a cause of action. In early 2026, the theater, which is a resident company at Carmel's Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts, will perform stage adaptations of "The Great Gatsby" and "The Scarlet Letter." Beloved classics "A Christmas Story" and "Fiddler on the Roof" will round out the season. Subscriptions are on sale now via or by contacting the Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts box office at 317-843-3800 or tickets@ Single tickets will go on sale July 24. All shows take place in the Tarkington theater unless otherwise noted. Here's the Civic Theatre season lineup. Oct. 3-18 In this musical comedy set in 1590, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are struggling to write a hit play and finding it impossible to compete with a famed playwright known as "The Bard." After a soothsayer predicts that theater's future combines singing, drama and dancing, the duo begins to write the first-ever musical. Summer plans: 100+ free live concerts around central Indiana in 2025 Dec. 5-27 Growing up in fictional Hohman, Indiana, in the 1940s, 9-year-old Ralphie Parker exhausts all possible avenues to obtain his dream Christmas gift: an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Feb. 6-21, 2026 in the Studio Theater Long Island newcomer Nick Carraway chronicles the story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire who pursues the love of his life, the already-married Daisy Buchanan, against the decadent backdrop of Jazz Age New York. The IndianapoLIST newsletter has the best shows, art and eats — and the stories behind them March 13-28, 2026 in the Studio Theater In this reimagining of the classic novel, Hester Prynne raises her daughter in a Massachusetts Bay society where women are punished for asserting independence and colonists deal with violence, superstition and repression that will wind their way into the soon-to-be-formed America. April 24-May 9, 2026 In the small village of Anatevka, a milkman's family deals with the clash between tradition and changing times as they face antisemitism in Czarist Russia.
Washington Post
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
A canceled radio host and his wife flee to Europe. What could go wrong?
When we first meet Reuben and Cecilie, the couple at the center of 'Something Rotten,' Andrew Lipstein's third novel, they're doing what a lot of 30-somethings in Brooklyn are no doubt dreaming about as you read these words: leaving for an extended stay in Europe. Cecilie, an investigative reporter for the New York Times, is taking belated parental leave so the couple and their infant son can stay with her mother in Copenhagen, where Cecilie grew up. She hands off her latest story to a smarmy male colleague who she's sure is plotting to usurp her status as the star reporter on her beat. Reuben is a stay-at-home dad, ground down by the never-ending demands of caring for a baby and ruminating on a very public humiliation — once a big-deal NPR host, Reuben was recently canceled, his reputation so toxic that he can't even get an entry-level audio job.
