We opened our 2020-2021 season with our first ever virtual performance, a world premiere of Michael Wilhelm's comedy-drama, The Dreadful Journal of Phoebe Weems. As we navigate the challenges of live performance during a time of pandemic worries, we are…
When: Saturday, August 8, 4:00 pm Where: 3901 South Wayne Ave, Fort Wayne, In 46807 A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas (1 Act). Performances: Nov 6-8, 13-15, 20-22, 2020. Parts: Children: 3 Females: Carrie-7, Laura-9, Mary-11; 1 Male: Johnny Steadman-9 Adults: 2 Females: Ma,…
all for One productions is starting a new podcast program: For Starters: Excerpts of Time-Tested Tales for the Whole Family!This program will be producing dramatic reading excerpts from public domain books in order to encourage listeners to try these well-loved…
Who is eligible to enter the Young Playwrights Festival?Any Greater Fort Wayne area public, private or homeschool kindergartner to high school senior. Student must be enrolled in school by September 1. Is teacher involvement required?No. Students can enter on their…
Sherlock Holmes and the 1st Baker Street Irregular is a new play by Brian Guehring which incorporates several of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories about the famous detective, and weaves in an original story about how Holmes came to employ…
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish-born poet, novelist and playwright, best known for his daring psychological thriller/morality tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his hilarious but insubstantial comedy play, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Wilde is widely acknowledged to have had a genius intellect. He spoke and read several languages and took double first class honors at Oxford (roughly equivalent to earning two simultaneous bachelor’s degrees, magna cum laude). He read widely and deeply, and loved the Classics, especially Greek literature. He also exhibited a lifelong fascination with the Catholic Church, read the Bible and St. Augustine while in jail, and requested a priest to administer Last Rites on his death bed.
The plot of …Edward Tulane is fairly simple: a china rabbit is separated from his owner, and is found in turn by: a fisherman and his wife, a hobo and his dog, and a poverty-stricken little boy and his dying sister. The premise of the story is a bit harder to articulate.