Articles by Stu Clampitt

Subversive youth hit Carmel stage

Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda the Musical’ opens this week at Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre By STU CLAMPITT news@readthereporter.com After literal years of pandemic delays, Civic Theatre in the Center for the…

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Finding future home for hidden history

Schwartzes need your help preserving Conner & Stephenson’s wallet By STU CLAMPITT Steve and Lori Schwartz are avid history buffs and collectors of artifacts from Hamilton County. Among the more…



Hot night of comedy to hit Westfield stage

By STU CLAMPITT Main Street Productions (MSP) is putting two flaming idiots on stage at Basile Westfield Playhouse for your amusement. The play, Flaming Idiots, written by Tom Rooney, is…


Goodbye, my heart

By STU CLAMPITT Chasing Wisdom Two weeks ago, I was driving my daughter down some miscellaneous midnight road to deliver stacks and packs of The Reporter. She sat beside me…



‘Curious’ play staging in Carmel

By STU CLAMPITT The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime is the first play Larry Adams has ever directed, and he’s doing so for Carmel Community Players this…


NYC newsman hails from Hoosier heartland

Carmel native lands his own nightly political program on Newsmax TV By STU CLAMPITT Hamilton County native and Carmel High School graduate Rob Schmitt has taken his Hoosier education and…