Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre
Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre, one of the nation's longest continuously operating community theatres, has been producing both large-scale musicals and popular plays in central Indiana since 1915. Civic's mission is to foster a love of theatre through imagination, education, and participation. Company Overview... Civic is the largest of more than 70 community theatres in Indiana and one of the ten largest nationwide. Civic enriches metropolitan Indianapolis by providing access to live entertainment, creative opportunities and theatre education. Each season, Civic conducts 90 public performances, works with over 300 avocational actors, and serves more than 54,000 patrons from across Indiana. Since 1941, Civic Theatre’s education programs have offered the only year-round, theatre-based performing arts program in the state of Indiana. Under the guidance of professional instructors, students aged 18 months and older are introduced to a multidisciplinary curriculum designed to connect theatre proficiencies with life skills such as discipline, self-confidence, commitment and team work. To provide equal access for all students, Civic embraces the needs of at-risk students and implements numerous outreach programs to enhance curriculum for these students. Educational workshops and outreach programs reach over 20,000 annually.
