FORT WAYNE — The Fort Wayne Civic Theatre has established a playwright festival encouraging emerging and professional playwrights to submit their unproduced and unpublished one act or full-length plays to be presented as a reading or production March 18-26, 2016.

Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. This musical tells a hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a …read more.

This week the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre announced auditions for the plays of the 6th Annual Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival, to be held on Sunday, March 22. Scripts may be signed out with a refundable $10 deposit. Below are the plays selected for this year’s festival: First Place Tie – Is This Seat Taken? by …read more.

“Cabaret” is coming to the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre starting on Valentine’s day for eight performances. “Cabaret” is set in the early 1930’s, prior to the rise of the Third Reich, aspiring writer Cliff Bradshaw has traveled to Berlin in search of inspiration. He finds Sally Bowles performing at the Kit Kat Klub and they …read more.

The scene is a night club in Berlin, as the 1920’s are drawing to a close. The Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience to the show and assures them that, whatever their troubles, they will forget them at the Cabaret. His songs provide wry commentary throughout the show. On the train to Berlin we find …read more.