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Performing Arts

 
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Madelyn Pugh Davis
Madelyn Pugh Davis

(Mar. 15, 1921-Apr. 20, 2011) Madelyn Pugh Martin Davis is best-known as one of two principal writers for I Love… Read More »Madelyn Pugh Davis

Drag Performances and Venues
Drag Performances and Venues

Indianapolis’ contemporary drag scene traces its roots to the 1960s. However, drag queens, who were originally called female impersonators, could… Read More »Drag Performances and Venues

Dramatic Club
Dramatic Club

In 1889, 25 young women from the city’s leading families formed an amateur theatrical group called the Matinee Club. The… Read More »Dramatic Club

Edyvean Repertory Theatre 

Incorporated November 9, 1971, as the Repertory Theatre, at (CTS), the community theater operation presented its first full season of… Read More »Edyvean Repertory Theatre 

Emerson Theater
Emerson Theater

On December 11, 1927, Albert H. Heady opened the Eastland Theater at 4630 East 10th Street, within the eponymously named… Read More »Emerson Theater

English Hotel and Opera House 
English Hotel and Opera House 

, Indianapolis businessman, congressman, and  vice-presidential candidate in 1880, built his fashionable hotel and theater the same year on the… Read More »English Hotel and Opera House 

Ensemble Music Society

The Ensemble Music Society presents the oldest continuous chamber music concert series in Indiana. Organized to encourage public presentation of… Read More »Ensemble Music Society

Epilogue Players

Epilogue Players, founded in 1977, is the realization of a dream come true for the late Bertha Starkus who felt… Read More »Epilogue Players

Hampton Family
Hampton Family

The Hampton Family is an African American family of jazz musicians whose individual members and various ensemble configurations have contributed… Read More »Hampton Family

Frances Farmer
Frances Farmer

(Sept. 9, 1913-Aug. 1, 1970). Born in Seattle, Washington, Frances Farmer graduated from the University of Washington and became a… Read More »Frances Farmer

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