Familiar film has new life on stage
The legendary 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is almost a universal language, filled with oft-quoted lines and well-known characters. But experiencing the...
Article Category: Stage & Dance
The Wedding Gift
In 2013, local playwright Nancy Carlson Dodd won the Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival with a music-free version of The Wedding Gift, a theatrical...
Church Basement Ladies avoid sequel fatigue
If you think every series ends up running stale before the writers put down their pens, you’ll find a refreshing exception in Wabash next weekend.
The...
Theater company challenges local mores with Fun Home
Andy Planck had been living in New York for five years, touring the country with musical productions and taking his shot at a career in theater. But...
The Wedding Gift
Most of us in the theater community know of Nancy Carlson Dodd. If you’ve met Nancy through her longtime connection with Fort Wayne theater — as an...
Fort Wayne Ballet’s staging of Phantom to haunt the ArtsLab
With three mainstage productions at the Arts United Center plus three Family Series shows in their home studios, Fort Wayne Ballet has long had a busy...
Bringing Keller’s story to life again
For anyone who has ever seen a staging of The Miracle Worker — or the 1962 film based on the play — Helen Keller has made an indelible mark on our consciousness....
These boots were made for dancing
For those familiar with the work of either Harvey Fierstein or Cyndi Lauper, it’s clear that neither of them does anything lukewarm or boring.
It would...
Fort Wayne academy educates, trains future classical dancers
Beth McLeish grew up a student by day and a professionally trained ballet dancer by night.
“I never had time to be with family or have any sort of...
Ukraine company brings classic ballet to Embassy
It isn’t often that a 209-year-old ballet company comes to town. The Odessa National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of southern Ukraine is just...