Article Category: Stage & Dance

Can’t Fight This ’80s Rock

Written by Michele DeVinney on September 6, 2018.

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

Written by Heather Herron on August 30, 2018.

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

Written by Steve Penhollow on August 2, 2018.

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

Written by Brian Wagner on August 2, 2018.

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

Written by Leslie Beauchamp on July 26, 2018.

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

Written by Steve Lively on July 19, 2018.

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

Written by David Rousculp on July 5, 2018.

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)...

A Dead Clown’s Next Act

Written by Michele DeVinney on June 28, 2018.

Each year eager theater fans in Fort Wayne wait to hear what plays and musicals they can expect to enjoy in the coming season. Many of the titles are...