Giving Our Past a New Presence

The Lerner (formerly ELCO Theatre), an Elkhart Landmark, is part of a revival, a new era for the arts, commerce and life in the heart of our community. The Lerner is the focus of this rebirth with its timeless, never-lost quality of an old theatre.

The Lerner will be restored to capture the grace of its original design and to accomodate the finest structural, acoustic, technical and theatrical requirements of today and tomorrow. The Lerner is ours. It belongs to our community. We fill it with laughter and tears, music, drama, dance and song. We fill it with applause and appreciation for the artful side of life. It is ours to enjoy in our time and it is our gift to the generations to come.