Arts Edition

Barbara Mann GM Scott Saxson started the High School Musical Theatre Awards in 2008 to celebrate local high school actors and orchestras, their musical productions, and the hard work it takes to bring those shows to the stage.Students spend months working on their productions, rehearsing songs and dance steps, designing and painting the sets, sewing the costumes and doing everything else it takes to put on a show. Most schools start working on their productions in the fall and rehearse all year — including after school and on weekends — until they present their shows in March or April. The High School Musical Theatre Awards celebrate their hard work and achievements.

On May 4th, eight Lee County High Schools participated in the High School Musical Theatre Awards. Established by Barbara B. Mann General Manager Scott Saxon, it's the equivalent of the Tony Awards for local high school theater shows and the students who perform in them.

The Marco Island Center for the Arts has worked hard to become an integral part of the vibrant and engaging Marco Island community.

The 37th Annual All Florida Juried Exhibit is on view this month in the main gallery of the Alliance for the Arts. The show continues to grow in stature and statewide recognition, as evidenced by the fact that the Alliance received 120 more submissions this year than it did in 2022. That presented this year’s juror, Grace Gdaniec, with quite the challenge when it came to deciding which 60 or so works to include in this year’s exhibition.

Is it fair for one artist to copy another's work? And if it is, must that artist credit the other as the inspiration for their new work? An exhibition of ants crawling all over the face and columns of the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center in downtown Fort Myers has artists and art lovers asking these very questions.

The Punta Gorda Symphony’s classical concert series continues Sunday evening with a program featuring composer Kenneth Fuchs’ Piano Concerto…

The work of Miami-based artist and musician Beatriz Monteavaro is distinctive for its densely drawn narrative images and environments. It’s also…

Sunday evening will mark the Punta Gorda Symphony’s first performance of the new year with a program featuring Felix Mendelssohn’s famous Violin Concerto…

Southwest Florida-based indie/folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, arranger Kyle Anne returned to the show last month ahead of the anticipated…

Award-winning actor, author, producer, wood-worker and humorist Nick Offerman is best known for playing the iconic character Ron Swanson in the NBC hit…