‘The Matchmaker’
INDIANAPOLIS — The Buck Creek Players present “The Matchmaker” March 30 through April 8 at the Buck Creek Playhouse, 11150 Southeastern Ave. Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant in 19th century Yonkers, New York, decides to take a wife and employs matchmaker Mrs. Dolly Levi, who becomes involved with two of Vandergelder’s clerks, several lovely ladies and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant, where this swift farce runs headfirst into hilarious complications. This original comedy by Thornton Wilder inspired the acclaimed Broadway musical “Hello, Dolly!” For more information and show times, visit buckcreekplayers.com or call 317-862-2270.
‘Mamma Mia!’
INDIANAPOLIS — The music of Swedish rock band Abba fills the air when “Mamma Mia!” opens tonight at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, 9301 Michigan Road. The lively musical tells the story of a daughter planning her wedding. She would like her absent father to walk her down the aisle, but which of her mother’s three boyfriends is the one? “Mamma Mia!” runs through April 8. Visit beefandboards.com for show times and ticket prices. For reservations, call the Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre Box Office at 317-872-9664.
‘And Then There Were None’
CARMEL — Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate, for each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins and one by one they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme. One of Agatha Christie’s darkest tales, “And Then There Were None,” comes to the stage at the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre, 3 Center Green through April 8. For more information, visit civictheatre.org.
