Nuts at Buck Creek Players
Nuts has been called the best courtroom melodrama since Witness for the Prosecution and The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and it inspired the 1987 film starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfus. Set in a courtroom in New York’s Bellevue Hospital, the story follows the journey of a high-priced call girl incarcerated on a charge for killing a violent “john.” The state says Claudia Faith Draper is unfit to stand trial. As testimony from experts, physicians, and her parents unfolds, can she prove to the judge that she isn’t “nuts” and stand legally sane at trial for manslaughter?
- Sept. 29-Oct. 8, Fridays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
- $18; $16 for senior citizens (aged 62 or older)
- www.buckcreekplayers.com, 317-862-2270
Storytelling Arts of Indiana: Don White
Storyteller and folksinger
- Sept. 29, Don will perform at Sakana, 5252 E 82nd St, Ste 102, Indy 46250. This concert will benefit WITT-FM (91.9). $20 with limited seating.
- Sept. 30 is a benefit “Tools for School,” a program that provides school supplies for low-income families in Hamilton County. This past July, Tools for School served over 2,200 children with everything from school supplies and backpacks, to new shoes, socks, underwear, and new or gently worn jackets. This show will be held at the Ritz Charles in Carmel. Tickets are $30.
The Shape of Things at Khaos Company Theatre
Neil LaBute’s 2001 play focuses on the nature of stoicism, art, psychopathy, intimacy, explorations of love, and people’s willingness to do things for love. It is set in a small university town in the American Midwest and centers on the lives of four young students who become emotionally and romantically involved with each other.
- Friday and Saturday, Sept. 29-30, 7 p.m.
- $18
- http:// www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/3093955
Storefront Theatre: Infinity at IndyFringe
How does a new theory of time change everything we know about ourselves? Three brilliant minds — a musician, a mathematician, and a theoretical physicist — smash together like colliding particles in an accelerator. Together they learn that love and time are connected in ways they couldn’t have imagined. Infinity is a shocking, funny, and revelatory play about love, sex, and math by Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch with original violin composition by Njo Kong Kie.
- Sept. 29-Oct. 15, Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Wednesdays and Sundays at 7 p.m.
- $10-$25
- http://www.storefrontindy.com
Lafferty’s Wake at Westfield Playhouse
The darlin’ wild rover, Charlie Lafferty, is being waked in grand style in his home away from home, the local pub. The audience joins Charlie’s widow, his sweet daughter, bumbling son-in-law, the parish priest, and the savvy innkeeper as they celebrate the life and times of ramblin’, gamblin’ Lafferty. Two hours of sheer fun replete with jokes, jigs, games, stories, and songs including such old favorites as “Molly Malone,” “Whiskey in the Jar,” and “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.”
- Sept. 29-Oct. 15, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
- $15; $13 seniors and students; free for active military and vets with ID
- 317-402-3341 or www.westfieldplayhouse.org
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