Editing Fort Dodge, Iowa (section)

===Theater===
Theater and [[musical theater]] are historically popular arts activities in Fort Dodge, with the community maintaining three independent theater organizations. Hawkeye Community Theatre puts on six full-length productions a year of varied genre. Comedia Musica Players is a civic musical theater troupe that produces an annual musical each fall.  Stage Door Productions provides theater training and performance opportunities for middle school, high school, and college-aged students during the summer. It produces one small-cast (10 or fewer) play per year.

The two local high schools and the community college produce a student-cast musical each Spring.  The [[Fort Dodge Senior High School]] musical is the longest-running high school musical theater tradition in the United States, first produced in 1927.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.messengernews.net/page/content.detail/id/535436/Backs--a-proper-venue-.html|title=News, Sports, Jobs |website=Messengernews.net|access-date=October 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iowalivingmagazines.com/2014/06/24/dodger-pride-is-alive/|title=Dodger Pride is Alive!|website=Iowalivingmagazines.com|access-date=October 18, 2018}}</ref>