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...
Article Category: Stage & Dance
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)...
A Dead Clown’s Next Act
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...
A Little Night Music
Arena Dinner Theatre closes out its 2017-18 season with Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant A Little Night Music. The 1973 hit musical weaves the stories...
A Little Night Music
I remember as a kid seeing Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd starring Angela Lansbury on television. As with most things on early...
The Mettle to ‘Let It Go’
If you’ve ever met Brock Ireland or seen him perform onstage, it’s hard not to be won over by his openness and his warmth.
Ireland grew...
Back Home & Onstage
Few people can strike the perfect balance between their passion and their career. Brian Ernsberger is the exception.
As a child, Ernsberger was “painfully...