A Year with Frog and Toad
For many of us, we learned some of the first facets of friendship while reading Arnold Lobel’s beloved series of books about the ever-cheerful Frog,...
Article Category: Stage & Dance
Fresh Take on Screwball Tale
Those who have seen the classic screwball comedy My Man Godfrey, starring William Powell and Fort Wayne native Carole Lombard, will find some familiarity...
Present Laughter
Above the fireplace within stage actor Gerry Essendine’s late 1930s flat in London is an image of the actor himself, holding a skull, which is no doubt...
Can’t Fight This ’80s Rock
In recent years, the “jukebox musical” has taken the world by storm. While there’s no dearth of popular originals — hello, Hamilton! — and classic revivals...
Celebrate Future of Dance
A typical dance performance might feature performers on a stage in front of a seated audience.
Art Moves, the premier fundraiser for the Fort Wayne...
Disney’s Newsies
With “Newsies,” Disney (which has proved it can do almost anything) turned a failed film into a hit Broadway musical.
What’s more, “Newsies” is a hit...
Star Spangled Girl
When we began planning our 2018-19 season for Arena Dinner Theatre, the Play Reading Committee and I started looking for well-known plays and playwrights...
Disney’s Newsies
On a hot, steamy, New York summer night in July 1899, with the symbolic act of overturning a distribution wagon, thousands of corner newsboys and newsgirls...
My Dead Clown
Starting off the 2018-2019 season at First Presbyterian Theater in downtown Fort Wayne is My Dead Clown, an original play written by David Rousculp,...
My Dead Clown
There’s something funny going on at Jackson Funeral Home, and funny is a very dangerous thing at a place of mourning. Mr. Jackson (Tom Corron)...