Playwrights

Kristyn Estes’ “Swingset” is an entertaining story of mixed signals, mishaps and miscommunication that sends its two characters, Jake and Abby, into a romantic tailspin. Playwright Kristyn Estes got the idea for the comedy over coffee one morning a couple of years ago when she first got wind of Marco's "dirty little secret."

When 7Mary34 Director Trace Talley was in ninth grade, he saw “A Few Good Men” at the Kennedy Center. Now he’s producing the Aaron Sorkin play, which opens at Fort Myers Theatre on September 12.

Urbanite Theatre’s Modern Works Festival takes place in Sarasota September 4 to 8. The festival is a celebration of female playwrights and theater-makers, who are still vastly under-represented in the theater industry.

The dictionary defines unsettling as distressing, disturbing and upsetting. The Laboratory Theater of Florida invokes these very emotions with the Southwest Florida premiere of Killer Joe, on stage now through February 5th.

The Florida Repertory Theatre in downtown Fort Myers holds its 6th annual PlayLab Festival May 9-12. The festival gives emerging and established…