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The Live Stage After the Palaces, November 2026

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Live theatre in Walkerton now happens in exactly one room, and it can be named with its productions: the auditorium of John Glenn High School, 201 John Glenn Drive, home of the John Glenn Theatre Company, which sells its seats through its own box-office page like any producing company. The dated record: The Odd Couple and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on the Glenn stage in 2006, under director Richard Fansler, in the South Bend Tribune's coverage; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown on Saturday, 23 November 2024; Annie on Sunday, 15 March 2026 — the company's current production in the record reached, eight months before this section's date. This is the succession the palaces left: the opera house's stage had a school library benefit in 1901, and the town's live stage in 2026 is a school's — the same institution, at two ends of the record, holding the town's theatre up.

The storefront test, run: no community theatre company, storefront stage, or church-basement troupe seated in Walkerton appears in the record reached for November 2026 — no second room joins the auditorium. (Two cautions of method print with the finding: schools of the same astronaut's name in California and Michigan fill the search record with their own productions, and every Glenn production printed above was verified to the Walkerton school's own box office or the county paper before use.) The live stage after the palaces is one school auditorium, named, dated, and producing — printed at its true size, which is also the town's.

Sources: John Glenn Theatre Company box office, jghs.booktix.com (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, 23 November 2024; Annie, 15 March 2026 — read November 2026); South Bend Tribune production notices, 2006 (The Odd Couple; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Glenn auditorium); Arts (John Glenn drama program).

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Source: The Live Stage After the Palaces, November 2026, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/arts/live-stage-after-the-palaces-november-2026/