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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 of multiple love triangles involving an actress, […]

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 up in Wabash, a […]

Few people can strike the perfect balance between their passion and their career. Brian Ernsberger is the exception. As a child, Ernsberger was “painfully shy” but an avid reader with […]

Primarily known in Fort Wayne for hisrole in the rock band Downstait, Sean Arata has spent the past few years making a name for himself in local theater. He remembers […]

Michael Nelaborige was born and raised in Fort Wayne’s north side in what was then considered “way out in the country” (north of Dupont and Coldwater). “I was an only […]

Morgan Spencer is a small town girl who dreamed beyond her upbringing. She grew up in Woodburn, “where everyone knows everyone,” and although she says it was a nice place […]

After a yearlong stage hiatus, Debbie Moore is back in the spotlight. A lifelong Fort Wayne resident, Moore says her parents, Anthony and Deborah Kirkland, “had their hands full when […]

The Stephen Sondheim musical Assassins has had a difficult history–thanks in part to America’s own difficult history. When it premiered off-Broadway in 1990 in the ultra-patriotic Gulf War era, the […]

Melissa Junkin Shaw was a child of many contradictions. She loved to read and made good grades in school but was a “frequent flyer in detention” due to her talkative […]