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Wood artisans create functional beauty
Furniture is typically functional and usually comfortable, but it doesn’t always stand out or make a statement. That is, unless you’re describing the chairs, benches, and dressers made by members […]
Show runs the gamut for home and garden
At the end of the month, a semi will dump 20 tons of sand inside the Memorial Coliseum. That’s 40,000 pounds of sand, right in the middle of the building. […]
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 Church Basement Ladies, based […]
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 property she began working on in 1980. […]
Hamilton star steps up to the mic at the Embassy
Leslie Odom Jr. is not an overnight success. For many years, he was featured on a variety of television series, most notably on procedurals like CSI: Miami and Law & […]
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 story on stage is something altogether different. […]
Musical spoof springs to life at Purdue FW
Lacking many of the familiar tropes of fairy tales that can make them somewhat frightful, The Princess and the Pea tells the story of a young princess who arrives on […]
Latin rockers unpack songs at The Clyde
The year was 1982. Steve Berlin was saxophonist for the storied rockabilly revival band, The Blasters. One night at the Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles, the Blasters were […]
Glenbrook corrals Portillo’s; Shigs in Pit adds third location
Still more changes are coming to the eclectic restaurant landscape in Fort Wayne. With the demise of Sears and the closing of its longtime location at Glenbrook Square comes news […]
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 award winning actress, […]