Arts

The Alliance for the Arts and other local arts organizations, this week, launched the Arts & Economic Prosperity survey as part of a nationwide study by Americans for the Arts to quantify the direct and indirect economic impact of the arts on local communities.

The Laboratory Theater of Florida celebrates the coming of summer each year by spoofing a famous Hollywood movie. This year, it’s Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 horror film "The Birds."

After two murals of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy were vandalized in April at the Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers, Florida, a larger project was born. Now, an accordion of twenty 4×8 foot murals painted by local artists line the Alliances’ festival grounds. All using vivid colors - most emphasizing the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian flag.

Every father's nightmare isn't his daughter's engagement to someone he's never met. It's being asked by his daughter to run interference with his wife about her impending nuptials. That's Gomez Addams predicament in the Addams Family Musical, which Fort Myers Theatre is bringing to Southwest Florida May 6th through the 15th. WGCU's Tom Hall has the story.

Since 1994, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has been a summer classic on ESPN. But this summer, the Bee will stream online and be broadcast over the air on ION and Bounce. But you needn’t wait until summer to get your spelling bee fix. A spelling bee competition is unfolding live, on stage at Cultural Park Theater this weekend.

More than 20 million people quit their jobs in the last half of 2021 leading to chronic supply chain problems and long wait times at local eateries. Whether you call it The Great Resignation or The Big Quit, it has economists and sociologists scratching their heads to understand why. There’s a fun-loving group of puppets and their human counterparts on Avenue Q at Lab Theater that just may have an explanation for your COVID blues.

A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time opens at Players Circle Theatre on February 16. Smart and sophisticated, it’s the coming-of-age saga of a 15-year-old British lad who struggles with Asperger’s Syndrome.

It’s often said that to really know someone, you first have to walk a mile in their shoes. But to get to know artist Ilya Stolyar, all you have to do is view his retrospective this month at DAAS Co-Op Gallery in the Fort Myers River District.

If you're looking for a cure for your COVID doldrums, The Naples Players' production of The Savannah Sipping Society is the perfect prescription for the perfect date night or, even better, girls' night out.

The forecast calls for rain at Broadway Palm Dinner Theater, where Prather Entertainment is performing Singin' in the Rain. As WGCU Arts Correspondent Tom Hall reports, the show comes complete with an actual on-stage rainstorm.