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Review: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre
by Melissa Hall - Jan 12, 2025

The show’s farcical first half works because the second sticks the landing. Agatha Christie was the master of the big reveal, and this is one of her best. It all comes together beautifully in the final moments.

Photos: Beef & Boards Opens 2025 Season With Agatha Christie's MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 10, 2025

Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, now on stage, kicks off the theatre’s 52nd Season – the first of the five new shows. Check out photos from the production.

Actors Theatre Of Indiana Unveils Entertainment Line-up For GREATEST HITS VOLUME 2
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 26, 2023

Actors Theatre of Indiana presents ATI's Greatest Hits Volume 2, featuring powerful performances and fan favorites from past shows like NUNSENSE, WORKING, CABARET, SWEENEY TODD, GODSPELL, FOREVER PLAID, and MY FAIR LADY.

Review: CLUE at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre
by Melissa Hall - Jan 3, 2023

Clue, the classic whodunit farce, kicks off Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre's 50th anniversary season. The mystery show takes the famous board game and film and turns it into a play. Each character is given a weapon and a motive and the murders begin. Eddie Curry directs the fast-paced production and keeps the actors as close to their movie counterparts as possible. 

CLUE Opens Beef & Boards' 50th Anniversary Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 29, 2022

When it came time to solve the mystery of what show should open its 50th Anniversary Season, Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre only needed one Clue. The farce-meets-murder mystery is now on stage for the first time at Beef & Boards.

12 Days Left To Vote For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Indianapolis Awards; Beef & Boards Dinner Theater Leads Favorite Local Theatre!
by BWW - Dec 19, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Indianapolis Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Latest Stats Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Indianapolis Awards; at Booth Tarkington Civic Theater Leads Best Ensemble Performance!
by BWW - Dec 12, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Indianapolis Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Latest Standings Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Indianapolis Awards; Beef & Boards Dinner Theater Leads Favorite Local Theatre!
by BWW - Dec 5, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Indianapolis Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Actors Theatre Of Indiana Opens 2022-2023 Season With NUNSENSE
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 31, 2022

Actors Theatre of Indiana has announced casting for the first show in their 2022-2023 season – NUNSENSE: A musical. 

Cast Announced for Actors Theatre of Indiana Reading of TWO HENRYS
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 26, 2022

Sean Blake, Judy Fitzgerald and Jan Lucas will be the trio of Midwestern snowbirds unpacking family secrets in a May 14 developmental staged reading of Kenneth Jones' comedy-drama Two Henrys, part of Actors Theatre of Indiana's Lab Series of new play readings. Richard J. Roberts directs the play set at the dawn of marriage equality and the dusk of the worst days of the AIDS epidemic.

BWW Review: HELLO, DOLLY! Back Where She Belongs at Beef & Boards
by The Marriage Matinee - Apr 4, 2022

A huge draw of live theater is the touch of nostalgia, that craving for the classics and a different era. That is exactly what you can expect at HELLO, DOLLY!, now on the stage at Beef & Boards. This timeless musical brings you the heartwarming charm of years gone by, complete with swirling period costumes and jaunty tunes.

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre Presents HELLO, DOLLY!
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 26, 2022

She's sassy, smart, and spunky, and soon she'll be back at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre. Suzanne Stark stars as the iconic Dolly Levi in the matchmaking musical Hello, Dolly! starting March 31. 

BWW Review: SHEER MADNESS at Beef & Boards - A Cut Above the Rest
by The Marriage Matinee - Jan 2, 2022

Comedy, crime, and quick wits describe every minute of SHEAR MADNESS. This piece is the longest running play in American theater for a reason. It combines a little of all your theatrical favorites with some location-specific additions and even audience participation.

Photos: SHEAR MADNESS Opens Tonight at Beef & Boards
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 28, 2021

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre is kicking off its 2022 Season a bit early with tonight’s opening of Shear Madness! The hilarious “whodunit” is back by popular demand. The updated, locally-set play includes a murder that the audience pins on one of four suspects.

Beef & Boards Presents SHEAR MADNESS This Month
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 23, 2021

Featuring a unique blend of madcap improvisation and spine-tickling mystery, and set right here in Indianapolis, the Beef & Boards production features local references throughout the show and up-to-the-minute spontaneous humor. 

BWW Review: PHANTOM Haunts Beef & Boards
by The Marriage Matinee - Oct 11, 2021

If you’re a fan of musical theatre, then you have had some exposure to the deeply dark and moving tale of the Phantom who lived in the bowels of the Paris Opera House. However, you’re most likely thinking of the version by Andrew Lloyd Weber. While that musical is iconic in its own ways, there is another PHANTOM you can encounter in musical theatre. This version has music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and book by Arthur Kopit. This adaptation has been brought to life in Indianapolis by Beef & Boards, and it is a haunting yet exhilarating experience.

Yeston & Kopit's PHANTOM Announced At Beef & Boards
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 30, 2021

The haunting tale of the French novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux lifts off the pages and onto the Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre stage in Phantom starting Oct. 7.

BWW Review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS: Bonds in a Salon at Beef & Boards
by The Marriage Matinee - Jan 13, 2020

STEEL MAGNOLIAS is a much beloved play and film full of the charms of the South and the wit and resilience of the women who inhabit it. It has so many timeless themes, like the bonds of womanhood, the trials of courtship, the anxieties of motherhood and aging. What makes it such an enduring presence on the stage is the way these themes interweave to create peaks of humor and valleys of tragedy that ultimately show a beauty salon is more than a place to beautify. It is a place to forge friendships that are there to catch you when you fall.

Beef & Boards Opens 2020 Season With STEEL MAGNOLIAS
by Stephi Wild - Jan 4, 2020

Filled with both sass and Southern charm, Steel Magnolias opens the 2020 Season at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, with performances now through Feb. 2.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS Announced At Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 18, 2019

Filled with both sass and Southern charm, Steel Magnolias opens Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre's 2020 Season on Jan. 4.