A Charlie Brown Christmas
On Dec. 9, 1965, CBS aired the original broadcast of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and a holiday tradition was born.
Since then, its annual airings,...
Article Category: Stage & Dance
She Loves Me
Love is the tie that binds us together and what better time to feel those feelings of love and warmth than during the Holiday Season.
The musical She...
Tackling the Bard’s Weighty Works
It would be pretty difficult to find someone who doesn’t have at least a passing knowledge of Shakespeare’s Macbeth given its ubiquity on high school...
Company Gets Crackin’ for Holidays
It would be enough if all that Fort Wayne Ballet had to do this fall was to prepare for their beloved annual production of The Nutcracker. After all,...
Tom and Thom’s Christmas songs and stories
Tom Didier and I have known each other for 37-plus years. We did Of Mice and Men together back in 1981, and ever since I’ve been back to run FPT, I’ve...
Antigone
First off, I would like to say how lucky we are to have a university with a strong department of theater here in Fort Wayne. The variety of productions...
A Christmas Carol
The jack-o-lanterns are being thrown away, we’ve had our first snowfall of the season, and we even have some all-holiday-music-all-the-time on the...
A Christmas Carol
New adaptations of A Christmas Carol seem to spring up faster than you can say, “Bah, humbug!” It is a rare theater season in our community that doesn’t...
Antigone a Contemporary Parable
Antigone, reeling from a contentious civil war with profound bloodshed, now has the obligation to bury her dead brother. Sounds simple enough, but her...
New Twist on an Old Favorite
Whether it’s the Alastair Sims classic from 1951, the more recent Disney animated version from 2009, or even the quirky Muppet adaptation from 1992,...