Little Women

Little Women at Janet Allen Stage - Indiana Repertory Theater

You know the March sisters. Now watch them through the eyes of the woman who invented them. At Indiana Repertory Theater, Little Women takes a story many of us carry from childhood and turns it inside out, placing Louisa May Alcott herself in the dramatic frame. The writer is on stage, and her words come with her.

That choice gives the afternoon a fresh pulse. Lauren Gunderson's adaptation, directed by Lauren Keating, draws on passages from Alcott's original text while exploring the links between her life, her family and her fictional characters. You may arrive thinking you know every turn. You may leave wondering where memory ends and invention begins. The story follows the March sisters and their mother while the father serves in the Civil War, and it keeps family love, growing independence, social restrictions, friendships, romance and loss at its center. Four sisters, four different ambitions, one tightly woven bond. It is a spoken stage adaptation, built on performance and storytelling rather than song or film.

Saturday, March 6, 2027, at 4:00 PM on the Janet Allen Stage in Indianapolis is an easy date to share. A shared theatre outing can spark the kind of conversation that lasts well past the curtain call, across generations of readers. If that sounds like your kind of afternoon, secure your seats for Little Women at Indiana Repertory Theater and spend it with the family, and the author, who started it all.