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Stephen King's Carrie turns 50 this year. To celebrate the occasion, TheatreZone in Naples is producing Carrie: The Musical from April 25 through May 5, 2024. It's a timeless story of a toxic mother-daughter relationship and high school bullying gone horribly wrong.
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Nobody knows if it was a British soldier or a colonist who fired the first shot to start the American Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775 in Lexington, Massachusetts. Ironically, tune for the Song of the Day, "The Liberty Song," was taken from the British Navy anthem.
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The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center hosts an inclusive group exhibition of works by STARability Foundation participants titled “Divergent Inspiration.” The Foundation also recently received a game-changing $5 million donation from philanthropist and entrepreneur Tom Golisano. STARability CEO Karen Govern talks about the exhibit, plans for expansion, and the foundation’s work, mission, and history.
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The Musical Swings at the Naples Botanical Garden play notes from four different instruments as visitors swing. When the swings move in unison, they create a musical composition. The installation, originally slated to end April 20 has been extended until May 27.
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Produced "in the round," it's hard to know where the stage ends and the audience begins in Players Circle Theatre's highly-immersive production of the soft rock musical Godspell.
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This live edition of the Gulf Coast Life Book Club features Fort Myers writer Annabelle Tometich and her new memoir, The Mango Tree.
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Call it eerie. Call it prophetic. Both are appropriate for what happened April 12, 1966, when Jan Berry of pop duo Jan and Dean nearly died from a car accident near Deadman's Curve.
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There’s always a demand for good spirits and beer in southwest Florida. Punta Gorda native Keith Towles and his wife Mashelle have taken that demand and pushed their passion for craft beer and visiting breweries to the next level by opening a Voodoo Brewing Co. location close to home.The franchise had its grand opening Saturday.
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A colorful, vibrant festival took over Centennial Park in Fort Myers on Saturday.
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Belle Theatre's Peyton McCarthy commands the stage in Grounded as an F16 fighter pilot who is reassigned to fly drones from a windowless trailer in the desert outside Nevada after she becomes pregnant. McCarthy rises to the challenges presented by this ambitious one-woman show.