Admissions

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, Kim Cool talks with her friend and inspirational speaker MK Mueller about the importance of taking risks.

At least once a year, Players Circle Theater Artistic Director Bob Cacioppo like to produce a hip new play that's the talk of New York. So, he's heralding in the new year with “Admissions,” a family drama that places diversity and minority preferences front and center. With a story about white entitlement and guilt that's ripped from today's headline, the play is the latest offering by “Bad Jews” playwright Joshua Harmon, who Cacioppo calls the next Arthur Miller.

Fifty people have been indicted following a college admissions scandal, involving universities across the country. Here in Southwest Florida,…