Free Tickets for a Unique Entertainment Experience this Weekend.

[Elizabeth Audet]

The Indiana Ballet Company would like to wish Smaller Indiana a happy 5000 membership 'birthday' this week by offering free tickets to their original production of From Shakespeare with Love at the Athenaeum Theatre this weekend. The first five Smaller Indiana members to contact us at the number below will receive two tickets each to the performance of their choice this weekend. All other members are entitled to receive 25% off regular ticket prices only (does not include packages with restaurants or hotels).

If you are a nurse, educator, firefighter, member of the police, or offer some other service to the local community, we would encourage you to call us to receive our very special "Community Hero" deal. We understand how much you give to the community and would like to help brighten your world in turn. Please call us also for special corporate group and small business owner rates that are not listed on the website.

Using the Shakespeare sonnets as a springboard, From Shakespeare with Love explores love in all its many aspects. Just as the Bard's words speak to us down the centuries and across the globe, this original creation of the Indiana Ballet Company's Artistic Director, Alyona Yakovleva, reaches through history to weave together a timeless connection and expression of love through the universal language of dance.

Utilizing diverse choreographic styles, periods and musical selections, including live performance of period music by the Dragon Scale Consort, and Shakespeare readings by local award-winning playwright, director and actor, Daniel Fenton, From Shakespeare with Love will enchant lovers all: lovers of literature, dance, music and romance.

When: March 20th 8:00 PM, March 21st 2:00 PM and 8:00PM
Where: Athenaeum Theatre, 401 E. Michigan St., Indianapolis, IN 46204
visit http://indianaballetcompany.com/Tickets.html

call [phone]

[Morgan Greenlee]

Not to mention Conrad Indianapolis is also extending a special room rate of $139 for 'From Shakespeare in Love' ticket holders. Just click on Elizabeth's link above to reserve your room.

Thanks Elizabeth! And good luck this weekend!

[Jennifer Wiedenhaupt]

Hello! I just called the number and left a message! I've never been to a ballet before! Thank you for the opportunity to go for free! Very excited to hear back!

Thanks! Jennifer Raney, 317-431-4913

[Casey Mullins]

I was tooo laaaatttee! Bah.
It sounds beautiful.
I'm a ballerina in my dream.s

[Kim Tracy]

I am soooo excited! I won!!! I am taking my 11 year-old daughter for a girls night out. We have never been to the ballet before and I cannot wait. I can hardly wait for her to get home so I can tell her.
Thank you for such a generous offer.-Kim

[Elizabeth Audet]

That's wonderful! I have an 11 year-old girl also. Hope to see you both there!

[Kristina Akopdzhanova]

I want free tickets for me and my daughter! We have not been to ballet in the last couple years!
Friday night is ok!
thank you
kristina akopdzhanova
3174418752

[Elizabeth Audet]

Kristina, hope you win! I think your daughter would love it. Good luck!

[Taylor Martin]

I may have to see this show. I'm doing a new mind reading magic effect with the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

Taylor Martin

[Elizabeth Audet]

Sounds very Cool. If you come on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. (or better still, dinner at the Rathskeller just before the performance) I'll try to introduce you to Tim Hardy. He has worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, is on the faculty of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) and has performed all over the world. He has been so gracious as to work with our actor for From Shakespeare, along with Terri Bourus, Associate Professor of English Drama and Director of the IU Center for the Study of Early Modern Drama. Tim will be in Indiana for a few weeks and I highly recommend that you check out all his offerings while he is here. I'll post that later, when I get the literature on where and when. I do know he will be doing something on Shakespeare at IRT.

[Elizabeth Audet]

Here are some of the details I found about Tim Hardy's other projects while here in Indy:

John T. Barlow Lecture in the Humanities
Reinventing Shakespeare for the 21st Century: Keeping the Bard Relevant on Stage, on Page and in Film
In Ruth Lilly Auditorium in University Library on IUPUI campus.
Monday, 23 March, 2009 - 5.30 p.m.
Lecture is free of charge - please RSVP to Patti Hair [e-mail]

Galileo - one-man play celebrating 400th anniversary of Galileo's discoveries, explores the tensions between science and religion and one man's struggle for intellectual and spiritual salvation.

Tuesday 24 March - 7 p.m. Room 152 - Information and Communications Technology Complex on IUPUI Campus
Friday 27 March - 7.30 p.m. Room 152 - Information and Communications Technology Complex on IUPUI Campus
Performance of Galileo followed by a panel discussion on canonical law and the issues of science vs. religious belief.
Wednesday, 25 March - 6 p.m. Wynne Courtroom, IU School of Law

Tickets for performances of Galileo are $15. Contact Vicki Hale for tickets. [e-mail]

John T. Barlow Lecture in the Humanities - Free of charge - contact Patti Hair [e-mail]

Hardy's educational and performance residence is presented by the Department of English in the IU School of Liberal Arts with support from the PU School of Science and the IU School of Law - Indianapolis. A grant from the IUPUI 40th Anniversary Celebration Fund awarded to English Professor Terri Bourus also will help underwrite the week-long visit.

Information: Professor Terri Bourus or 317-278-0887

[Daina Chamness]

I would love to go! May I get tickets for the Friday evening performance?

[Elizabeth Audet]

Daina, probably best if you call [phone] or email [e-mail]. They will probably help you the fastest. If you have any problem, let me know and I'll try to get it fixed for you.

Best,

Elizabeth