------Calendar • Stage & Dance------Now Playing Co m e Bac k t o t h e 5 & Di m e Ji m m y De a n , Sh a k e s p e a r e ’s Me r c h a n t o f Ve n i c e The Green Room Ji m m y De a n — Disciples of James — Complex and controversial play Al m o s t , Ma i n e — As the northern Dean gather for a 20th anniversary about a merchant who secures a JEN POIRY-PROUGH lights hover above Almost, Maine, reunion to mull over their present loan from a Jewish money lender residents find themselves falling lives and reminisce about the past, who will receive a pound of flesh in and out of love in unexpected presented by IPFW Department if the loan defaults, 7:30 p.m. and sometimes hilarious ways, 7 of Theatre, contains adult lan- Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 26-28; Pulse Opera House Offers Theater Classes p.m. Thursday-Friday, Feb. 26-27, guage and subject matter 8 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, March The Pulse Opera House in Warren is holding two theater classes this Carroll High School, Fort Wayne, Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 26-28, 6-7; 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 8 Williams Theatre, IPFW, $5-$15 and 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, spring. Creative Dramatics (ages 8 to 12) is taught by Cynthia Smyth- $5, 637-3161 Wartzok and meets 10-11:30 a.m. Saturdays. Improv (ages 18 and up) Ca b a r e t — Musical set in a 1930s thru IPFW box office 481-6555 March 13-14, First Presbyterian German nightclub about a young Di a r y o f An n e Fr a n k — Stage adapta- Theater, Fort Wayne, $10-$20, is taught by Stacia Brinneman and meets 2-4 p.m Saturdays. Smyth- English singer strikes and an aspir- tion of The Diary of a Young Girl 422-6329 Wartzok is the executive director at the Pulse, and Stacia Brinneman is ing American writer, Fort Wayne by Anne Frank, 8 p.m. Friday- a long-time area performer who studied improvisation at Second City in Civic Theatre, 8 p.m. Friday- Saturday, Feb. 27-28; 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27-28 and 2 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 5-7 Asides Chicago. Classes run through March 21 and cost $60 per student. Call Sunday, March 1, Arts United and 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 260-375-7017 for more information. AUDITIONS Center, Fort Wayne, $17-$29 March 12-14, Pulse Opera House, (includes ArtsTix fees), 424-5220 Warren, $5-$14, 357-7017 Th e 25t h An n u a l Pu t n a m Co u n t y Mi l l i o n Do l l a r Qu a r t e t — Musical Sp e l l i n g Be e (Ma y 1-10) — A Fort Ecstatic Theatrics Presents Kids’ Shows based upon the December 1956 Wayne Civic Theatre production; Ecstatic Theatrics will present The Frog Prince and the Princess gathering of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee auditions for men and women ages Brats and The Damsel Game, two short children’s plays by Jeannette Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny 18 and up who can sing, dance Cash, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. and act, 7 p.m. Monday, March Jaquish, on Saturday, February 28, from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. in the Globe 26, Honeywell Center, Wabash, 2, Arts United Center, Fort Wayne, Room of the main branch of the Allen County Public Library. Tickets $24-$54, 563-1102 422-8641 are $4, or $20 for a family of up to six people. For more information, call Th e Mu s i c Le s s o n — all for One Jacquish at 260-484-5946. productions’ tale of two musicians who escaped the Bosnian war Upcoming Productions to start a new life in Pittsburgh, MARCH Wild Kratts Live at the Embassy rated PG for subject matter, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Feb. Re v e a l e d — Mikautadze Dance Tickets are now on sale for Wild Kratts LIVE! at the Embassy The- 26-28 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Theatre presentation featuring atre. The show will be Thursday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. The live show is Mar. 1, Allen County Public Library choreography, collaboration and a classical Wild Kratts adventure story. In “To the Creature Rescue,” the Auditorium, Fort Wayne, $10-$18, demonstration, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, ArtsLab, AuerCenter for brothers use Creature Power Suits to confront a comic villain. Tickets 622-4610 are $22-$75 and are available through Ticketmaster or in person at the Sc h o o l Ho u s e Ro c k — Musical based Arts and Culture, Fort Wayne, $15, upon the children’s television series, 422-4226 Embassy box office. 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. Wednesday, Pi n k a l i c i o u s Th e Mu s i ca l — Musical March 4, Honeywell Center, based upon the popular children’s Wabash, $6, 563-1102 book series by Victoria and Philharmonic Offers Workshops in March Elizabeth Kann, 2 and 6 p.m. The first Fort Wayne Philharmonic International Conductors’ and Saturday, March 7, Honeywell Concertmasters’ Workshop will be held March 10-13 in association with Weekends Center, Wabash, $9-14, 563-1102 Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and supported by the February 14 80/20 Foundation. Philharmonic Music Director Andrew Constantine, Professor Ennio Nicotra of Milano-Bicocca University, and concert- to March 1 master Jonathan Carney of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will lead young aspiring conductors and concertmasters in an intense series of workshops, discussions and a closing public concert with the Fort Wayne CABARET Philharmonic. The workshops will include extensive sessions with orchestra, two pianos and individual lessons. For conductors, the focus will be on the techniques of the most celebrated conducting teacher of the 20th century, Ilya Musin. Concertmaster classes will include the Art of Bowing and Audition and Concerto Preparation. [email protected] Performances at the Allen County Public Library Auditorium

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Irena and Ivan, two musicians who escaped the Bosnian war, are trying to start a new life in Pittsburgh. Ivan has taken on a new violin student and wants Irena to teach piano to his older sister. This tale of February 20 – 28, 2015 IPFW Box Office 260.424.5220 two cultures and two generations is a tribute to the Sign Language Interpreted - Feb. 21 260-481-6555 power of music to help us heal and help one another. Williams Theatre www.ipfw.edu/tickets fwcivic.org www.ipfw.edu/theatre Rated PG for subject matter. The 20th anniversary reunion of the Show Sponsor “Disciples of James Dean” sets off Admission: $5 IPFW students/H.S. students/ ADULT, SENIOR, STUDENT & GROUP humorous confrontations that challenge Children under 18 their delusions of who and what they are. All Others $15 and under Made possible with the support TICKET DISCOUNTS UNTIL 2/19. of Lincoln Financial Group Directed by Bev Redman Celebrating 50 Years www.allforOnefw.org IPFW is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access University.

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