More than a half century of Nutcracker in Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne Ballet’s annual performance of The Nutcracker is one of the city’s favorite holiday traditions. Now 63 years old, Fort Wayne Ballet has performed...
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Elsa and Anna warm up winter in Youtheatre production
The typical pattern for local theater groups and arts organizations is to quietly assemble the following season.
Then as the current season winds down,...
Plenty of holiday shows to unwrap at First Presbyterian
Don’t get confused this holiday season! First Presbyterian Theater will have three shows running over the holidays.
The two shows that FPT is producing...
Purdue Fort Wayne stages a necessary journey to the Jewish ghetto of WWII
A new production at Purdue Fort Wayne is likely the most moving production available to local theatergoers this year for a host of reasons.
Ghetto by...
Austen homage a hilarious take, especially for novelist’s fans
Jane Austen has become something of a cottage industry in the last 20 years or so. Beyond television and film adaptions, Austen fans have seen a wealth...
Enjoy the holidays visiting with Jane Austen’s Darcy family
Christmas is my favorite holiday. It is entirely my mother’s fault. I love the lights on the houses and trees, I love the music, I love the scents of...
Fire & Light is Tolkien about The Hobbit
There are several stage adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but only one that was approved by the author himself.
It was published in 1967...
Perfect touches of sweetness and sentiment season Civic’s holiday musical
Playwright and composer Meredith Willson created four musicals in his lifetime.
Two were hits (The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown), one wasn’t,...
Game show cherished by millions hits theater circuit
When my oldest was not yet one year old, he could say three words clearly and reliably: Dada, Mama, and Bob.
The latter came into play every weekday...
Balancing tradition, fresh entertainment
The holidays are a time when traditions are extremely important. One of the more recent traditions in our area is the visit of Cirque Dreams Holidaze....